Topic: Phone - on September 23, 2013 at 2:19:00 PM CEST
Chaos Computer Club hackt Apple TouchID
Hackern des Biometrie-Teams des Chaos Computer Clubs (CCC) ist es gelungen, die biometrischen Sicherheitsfunktionen des Apple TouchID mit einfachsten Mitteln zu umgehen. Dazu genügte den Hackern ein Fingerabdruck, welchen sie von einer Glasoberfläche abfotographierten, um einen künstlichen Finger zu erzeugen. Damit waren sie in der Lage, ein iPhone 5s zu entsperren, welches mit TouchID geschützt war. Damit demonstrierten die Hacker wieder einmal, daß biometrische Daten zur Verhinderung eines unberechtigten Zugriffs vollkommen ungeeignet sind.
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Topic: CARS - on September 21, 2013 at 5:26:00 PM CEST
Tesla Patents Next-Gen Electric Car Battery that Gets 400 Miles on a Single Charge
Over the years, one of the biggest obstacles to widespread electric vehicle adoption has been the issue of how far the car can travel on one charge. Cars that can only travel 100 miles without plugging in might be okay for your commute to and from work, but since charging stations aren’t as easily-accessible as gas stations, longer distances pose a problem. That’s the issue Tesla Motors is trying to solve with an innovative new type of battery it has just filed to patent — a hybrid lithium-ion and metal-air battery pack that could extend the range of the company’s electric vehicles to 400 miles between charges.
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Topic: Phone - on September 21, 2013 at 5:25:00 PM CEST
Senator asks if FBI can get iPhone 5S fingerprint data via Patriot Act
Since Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) arrived in the United States Senate, he’s become the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law. He’s made it his mission to raise questions about tech issues that he feels are improper, unjust, or just downright questionable.
The debut of the new iPhones 5S, replete with a fingerprint reader, has now also gotten Franken’s attention. On Thursday, the Minnesota senator published a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, raising questions about the logic in making fingerprint readers more mainstream.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 20, 2013 at 3:50:00 PM CEST
Douglas Adams was RIGHT! TINY ALIENS invaded Earth, say boffins
Aliens rained down on Earth from space, sprinkling microbes on our once lifeless planet, according to boffins from the University of Sheffield.
And the scientists claim they managed to photograph one of the extraterrestrial blighters from a balloon.
The balloon was launched to a height of 27km, which the eggheads argue puts it above the usual height of any terrestrial microbes floating around the atmosphere.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 20, 2013 at 12:58:00 PM CEST
Journey of Guitar Solo
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Topic: Phone - on September 20, 2013 at 12:17:00 PM CEST
Crowdfunded Bounty For Hacking iPhone 5S Fingerprint Authentication
There's more than $13,000 pledged for a crowdfunded bounty for bypassing an iPhone 5S's fingerprint reader. The bounty, set up by a security expert and an exploit reseller requires entrants to lift prints 'like from a beer mug.' It has a website — IsTouchIDHackedYet — and payments are pledged by tweets using #IsTouchIDHackedYet. One drawback: the scheme appears to rely on trust that sponsors will actually pay up
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Topic: Phone - on September 19, 2013 at 2:46:00 PM CEST
Satire: iPhone 5 NSA
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 19, 2013 at 2:44:00 PM CEST
Browser plugin that adds NSA-trolling keywords to the URLs you load
Flagger is a browser add-on that automatically puts red flag keywords (like bomb, Taliban and anthrax) into the web addresses you visit. Install Flagger and help us send a message: government surveillance has gone too far.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 19, 2013 at 2:43:00 PM CEST
Forscher entdecken Verfahren zur Chip-Sabotage
Bieten Mikrochips Einfallstore für Späher? Informatiker haben jetzt Methoden zur Sabotage von Verschlüsselung vorgeführt. Angreifbar sind demnach auch Halbleiter der Firma Intel. Der Konzern dementiert den Einbau solcher Hintertüren.
Dieses wissenschaftliche Papier beunruhigt angesehene Kryptografie-Experten: Auf 18 Seiten beschreiben Forscher der University of Massachusetts, der TU Delft und der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, wie man in Computerchips kaum zu entdeckende Hintertüren einbauen könnte.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 19, 2013 at 2:42:00 PM CEST
So, Linus Torvalds: Did US spooks demand a backdoor in Linux? 'Yes'
Linux supremo Linus Torvalds jokingly admitted US spooks approached him to put a backdoor into his open-source operating system.
During a question-and-answer session at the LinuxCon gathering in New Orleans this week, Torvalds and his fellow kernel programmers were asked by moderator Ric Wheeler whether America's g-men leaned on the Finn to compromise Linux's security, allowing spies to infiltrate computers.
Torvalds replied with a firm "no" while nodding his head to say yes, a response greeted with laughter from the audience. He quickly followed up by repeating "no" while shaking his head in the negative.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 19, 2013 at 2:40:00 PM CEST
So funktionieren Kryptografie-Hintertüren
Der US-Geheimdienst NSA soll selbst stark verschlüsselte Inhalte mitlesen können - auch dank sogenannter Hintertüren in angeblich sicheren Systemen. Mathematiker und Informatiker kennen mögliche Schwachstellen genau. Sie zu finden, ist allerdings nicht leicht.
Was wäre ein Geheimdienst ohne chiffrierte Botschaften, die er entschlüsseln muss! Man denke nur an die legendären Kryptografen des britischen Geheimdienstes im Bletchley Park, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg den Enigma-Code knackten und so Botschaften der deutschen Wehrmacht mitlesen konnten.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on September 19, 2013 at 2:38:00 PM CEST
Stephen Hawking's big ideas ... made simple - video animation
No time to read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time? In just two and a half minutes, Alok Jha explains why black holes are doomed to shrink into nothingness then explode with the energy of a million nuclear bombs, and rewinds to the big bang and the origin of the universe
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