Topic: SECURITY - on July 5, 2013 at 3:09:00 PM CEST
Watching your cats and dogs by remote control
It separates the pet owners, who understand the wrenching pain and sense of loss, from those that live a life without small, loyal, four-legged life companions.
Paul Loeffler is a pet owner.
"It is one of the things that as a dog lover, it really stays with you," he says.
Growing up he had a German Shepherd called Bear.
"Bear passed away when he was only five years old," he remembers.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 5, 2013 at 1:40:00 PM CEST
Tod durch CO-Vergiftung: Cannabisplantagen-Besitzer verurteilt
Ein 35-jähriger Pflegehelfer ist am Freitag am Wiener Straflandesgericht rechtskräftig zu einer Haftstrafe von einem Jahr, davon drei Monate unbedingt, verurteilt worden. Er wurde der fahrlässigen Tötung unter besonders gefährlichen Umständen für schuldig befunden. Der Mann hatte für seine Cannabis-Plantage eine starke Abluftanlage installiert und den Abgaswächter der Kombi-Therme verhängt. Seine 26-jährige Mitbewohnerin ist deswegen beim Duschen erstickt.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on July 5, 2013 at 1:39:00 PM CEST
In Wien sind 159 Straßennamen historisch belastet
Historikerkommission veröffentlicht ihren Bericht, gibt aber keine Empfehlungen zu Umbenennungen ab
Zwei Jahre lang hat eine Expertenkommission im Auftrag der Stadt Wien die Biografien von Persönlichkeiten untersucht, nach denen in Wien Straßen benannt sind. Es wurde überprüft, ob sie historisch belastet sind. Am Mittwoch wurde der 350-Seiten-Bericht veröffentlicht.
Das Ergebnis: 159 von 4.359 personenbezogenen Verkehrsflächen weisen eine "kritische Benennung" auf. Das heißt, dass diese Personen eine mehr oder weniger stark ausgeprägte problematische Einstellung zum Antisemitismus, beziehungsweise dem Nationalsozialismus hatten. Unter den untersuchten Personen waren etwa Karl Renner, Ignaz Seipel oder Julius Raab.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 5, 2013 at 1:05:00 PM CEST
European states were told Snowden was on Morales plane, says Spain
Spain says it and other European countries were told that the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board the Bolivian presidential plane that was diverted to Austria this week, causing a diplomatic row.
The foreign minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, said on Spanish National Television on Friday that "they told us that the information was clear, that he was inside".
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Topic: logisch - on July 5, 2013 at 12:52:00 PM CEST
Office Paper to Toilet Paper Machine
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Topic: SPY - on July 4, 2013 at 6:21:00 PM CEST
European firms 'could quit US internet providers over NSA scandal'
European businesses are likely to abandon the services of American internet providers because of the National Security Agency surveillance scandal, the European commission has warned.
Neelie Kroes, the commission vice-president who speaks on digital affairs, predicted that providers of cloud services, which allow users to store and access data on remote servers, could suffer significant loss of business if clients fear the security of their material is under threat.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 4, 2013 at 5:50:00 PM CEST
High hopes for new pot laws
California led the nation in allowing marijuana to be used for medical purposes, but last month residents of Los Angeles said enough is enough.
Tired of a proliferation of lightly regulated marijuana dispensaries that made pot available to any "patient," voters approved a measure to drastically scale back the number of shops allowed -- to 135 from 805.
In Colorado, state officials had trouble keeping up with -- and collecting taxes from -- many of the 1,000-plus marijuana farms, while people who were not sick easily obtained pot registration cards. The widespread availability of medical cannabis accelerated the movement toward full legalization of the iconic weed, which was approved last year.
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Topic: SPY - on July 4, 2013 at 5:41:00 PM CEST
Eavesdropping a fax machine
I was intrigued this morning to see on the front page of the Guardian newspaper a new revelation by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: a US eavesdropping technique “DROPMIRE implanted on the Cryptofax at the EU embassy [Washington] D.C.”. I was even more intrigued by an image that accompanied the report.
Having done many experiments to eavesdrop on office equipment myself, the noisy image at the bottom third of the picture above looked instantly familiar: it is what you might get from listening with a radio receiver on the compromising emanations of a video signal of a page of text.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 4, 2013 at 5:38:00 PM CEST
Parliament to launch in-depth inquiry into US surveillance programmes
Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee will conduct an "in-depth inquiry" into the US surveillance programmes, including the bugging of EU premises and other spying allegations, and present its results by the end of this year, says a resolution passed by the full House on Thursday. Parliament's President and political group leaders formally confirmed the launch of the inquiry. MEPs also call for more protection for whistleblowers.
In the resolution, approved by 483 votes to 98 with 65 abstentions, MEPs express serious concern over PRISM and other surveillance programmes, strongly condemn spying on EU representations and call on the US authorities to provide them with full information on these allegations without further delay.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 4, 2013 at 5:32:00 PM CEST
Datenschutz: Hysterie in der Nacktsauna
Warum fürchten wir uns Deutschen so davor, dass jemand anderes weiß, wer mit wem telefoniert hat? Vermutlich liegen die Gründe in unserer Vergangenheit. Deshalb muss nun alles anders werden: Die ersten träumen nach der Atomwende bereits von der Datenwende.
Okay, ich bin vielleicht derzeit nicht in der glücklichsten Position, um den NSA-Abhörskandal zu kommentieren. Vor zehn Tage bin ich mit meinem Sohn in die USA gereist, in ein Ferienhaus an der Ostküste. "Finde als Patriot: Amerika geht nicht mehr", schrieb mir am Montag ein Kollege per SMS. Ich kann zu meiner Entschuldigung nur sagen, dass bei Reiseantritt das Ausmaß des Skandals noch nicht absehbar war.
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Topic: SPY - on July 4, 2013 at 5:28:00 PM CEST
Ecuador embassy bug unlikely to be work of security services, say experts
Expert in covert techniques says off-the-shelf plug socket device is unlikely to have been planted by state agency
Surveillance experts have described the bugging device that Ecuador says was hidden behind a plug socket in its London embassy as rudimentary and unlikely to have been the work of the British police or security services.
guardian.co.uk Alleged Ecuadorian Embassy Bug Is A Decoy (where are other 3?)
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Topic: Phone - on July 4, 2013 at 5:25:00 PM CEST
Androids Code-Signatur lässt sich umgehen
Android-Anwendungen sind mit einer Signatur versehen, die die Integrität des APK-Pakets gewährleisten soll. Bei der Installation prüft das Betriebssystem seinen Inhalt anhand der Signatur und warnt, wenn es eine Manipulation feststellt. Das erst Mitte 2012 gegründete US-Unternehmen Bluebox will nun einen Fehler in diesem Verfahren entdeckt haben, der das Einschleusen beliebigen Codes in APK-Dateien ermöglicht, ohne die Signatur zu brechen. Laut Bluebox sind Apps in Googles Android-Shop "Play" von der Sicherheitslücke nicht betroffen.
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