Topic: Free - on July 20, 2008 at 2:19:04 PM CEST
Adeona A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops
Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop.
Adeona is designed to use the Open Source OpenDHT distributed storage service to store location updates sent by a small software client installed on an owner's laptop. The client continually monitors the current location of the laptop, gathering information (such as IP addresses and local network topology) that can be used to identify its current location. The client then uses strong cryptographic mechanisms to not only encrypt the location data, but also ensure that the ciphertexts stored within OpenDHT are anonymous and unlinkable. At the same time, it is easy for an owner to retrieve location information.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 20, 2008 at 2:09:46 PM CEST
Spanische Polizei "verliert" 100 Kilo Kokain
Der spanischen Polizei sind mehr als hundert Kilogramm Kokain abhanden gekommen. Wie ein Sprecher der Polizeigewerkschaft am Freitag bestätigte, wurden die beschlagnahmten Drogen aus einer Polizeistation im südspanischen Sevilla gestohlen und durch Talkumpulver ersetzt.
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Topic: SPORT - on July 20, 2008 at 2:08:10 PM CEST
Photograph of jumping shark behind surfers
Kem McNair snapped this amazing shot of a spinner shark jumping out of the water behind surfers at New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on July 20, 2008 at 2:04:00 PM CEST
Cern lab goes 'colder than space'
A vast physics experiment built in a tunnel below the French-Swiss border is fast becoming one of the coolest places in the Universe.
The Large Hadron Collider is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F) - colder than deep space.
The LHC has thousands of magnets which will be maintained in this frigid condition using liquid helium.
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