Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 5, 2012 at 10:00:00 AM CEST
Pirate Bay Enjoys 12 Million Traffic Boost, Shares Unblocking Tips
Last week the UK High Court ruled that several of the country’s leading ISPs must block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay. The decision is designed to limit traffic to the world’s leading BitTorrent site but in the short-term it had the opposite effect. Yesterday, The Pirate Bay had 12 million more visitors than it has ever had, providing a golden opportunity to educate users on how to circumvent blocks. “We should write a thank you letter to the BPI,” a site insider told TorrentFreak.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 5, 2012 at 9:57:00 AM CEST
FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites - now
CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory.
The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance.
In meetings with industry representatives, the White House, and U.S. senators, senior FBI officials argue the dramatic shift in communication from the telephone system to the Internet has made it far more difficult for agents to wiretap Americans suspected of illegal activities, CNET has learned.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on May 5, 2012 at 9:55:00 AM CEST
Kirche ließ Kastrationen durchführen
In den Niederlanden soll die katholische Kirche die Kastration von zehn Buben verantwortet haben. Die Fälle finden sich nicht im Bericht über die Missbrauchsfälle wieder - was nun Konsequenzen hat.
Amsterdam/Wien - Zehn Buben soll die niederländische katholische Kirche in den Fünfzigerjahren kastrieren haben lassen. Einer davon war Henk H., der fast sein ganzes Leben in Heimen verbracht hatte, bis er mit Anfang 20 bei einem Verkehrsunfall ums Leben kam. Er hatte als Bub im Jahr 1956 Geistliche wegen sexuellen Missbrauchs angezeigt, kurz danach wurde er in ein Spital im niederländischen Veghel eingeliefert und kastriert.
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Topic: food - on May 5, 2012 at 9:53:00 AM CEST
Sofia Gatica, Argentine Activist, Faced Anonymous Death Threats For Fighting Monsanto Herbicide
For 13 years Sofia Gatica has organized opposition to the aerial spraying of agrochemicals that threaten human health and the environment in Argentina -- and for almost as long, she and her children have faced physical threats from anonymous agents.
Gatica, who lives in a working-class neighborhood of 6,000 in central Argentina surrounded by soy fields, began organizing against Monsanto after she noticed a disturbingly high rate of cancer and birth defects in her community. Her own 3-day-old daughter died of kidney failure in 1999, and a neighbor had a baby die of the same uncommon birth defect.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 4, 2012 at 11:19:00 AM CEST
'Hashpoint' dispenser allows users to pick up cannabis 24 hours a da
But this ‘Autospense’ machine lets registered users of the drug pick up their prescriptions, 24 hours a day.
Sixteen US states – as well as Washington DC – allow patients with certain medical conditions to buy small quantities of cannabis.
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Topic: SECURITY - on May 4, 2012 at 11:17:00 AM CEST
Religious sites 'riskier than porn for viruses'
Web wanderers are more likely to get a computer virus by visiting a religious website than by peering at porn, according to a study released on Tuesday.
"Drive-by attacks" in which hackers booby-trap legitimate websites with malicious code continue to be a bane, the US-based anti-virus vendor Symantec said in its Internet Security Threat Report.
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Topic: SEX - on May 3, 2012 at 10:00:00 AM CEST
Chinese cable car operators banning youngsters from having mid-air sex
Operators of a Chinese cable car are cracking down on couples, who are born in the 90's, in an attempt to bust mid-air romps.
A gondola ride in Henan Province in China has reportedly compelled the local authorities to erect a sign banning people from having sex while riding on the cable car carriages.
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Topic: NATURE - on May 3, 2012 at 9:55:00 AM CEST
Finally, a Shark With a Laser
Relax, Dr Evil. Your inspired request for “sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached” has finally been fulfilled in the real world.
Marine biologist-cum-TV personality Luke Tipple attached a 50-milliwatt green laser to a lemon shark off the coast of the Bahamas in late April. The escapade was sponsored by Wicked Lasers, a consumer-focused laser manufacturer based in Hong Kong that produces some of the most brilliant — and potentially dangerous — handheld lasers in the world.
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Topic: Netz - on May 3, 2012 at 9:53:00 AM CEST
1Gbps Wireless Network Made With Red and Green Laser Pointers
Back in the olden days, when WiFi and Bluetooth were just a glimmer in the eye of IEEE, another short-range wireless communications technology ruled supreme: Infrared Data Association, or IrDA for short. IrDA was awful; early versions were only capable of kilobit-per-second speeds, and only over a distance of a few feet. Trying to get my laptop and mobile phone to link up via IrDA was, to date, one of the worst tech experiences I've ever had. There's a lot to be said for light-based communications, though. For a start, visible (and invisible) light has a frequency of between 400 and 800THz (800 and 375nm), which is unlicensed spectrum worldwide. Second, in cases where you really don't want radio interference, such as hospitals, airplanes, and other sensitive environments, visible light communication (VLC), or free-space optical communication, is really rather desirable. Now researchers at the National Taipei University of Technology in Taiwan have transmitted data using lasers — not high-powered, laboratory-dwelling lasers; handheld, AAA-battery laser pointers. A red and green laser pointer were used, each transmitting a stream of data at 500Mbps, which is then multiplexed at the receiver for a grand total of 1Gbps."
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Topic: WEB - on May 3, 2012 at 9:51:00 AM CEST
Security Threat Report 2012
Over the past year we in the IT security industry have seen a growing awareness of the work we do.
In 2011, a number of highly visible cyberattacks made news headlines around the world, but the underlying problem affects us all. It seems that the cybercriminals are getting bolder in their attacks as the availability of commercial tools makes mass generation of new malicious code campaigns and exploits easier. The net result has been significant growth in volume of malware and infections.
And for 2012, I anticipate growing sophistication in web-borne attacks, even broader use of mobile and smart devices, and rapid adoption of cloud computing bringing new security challenges.
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Topic: WEB - on May 3, 2012 at 9:49:00 AM CEST
Vorratsdatenspeicherung - Prominente Unterstützung für Verfassungklage
Eva Glawischnig, Robert Menasse und „Facebook-Kläger“ Max Schrems unterzeichneten Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung.
Grünen-Bundessprecherin Eva Glawischnig ist am Mittwoch mit prominenten Unterstützern gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung aufgetreten. Gemeinsam mit dem Schriftsteller Robert Menasse und „Facebook-Kläger“ Max Schrems unterzeichnete sie vor Journalisten eine Vollmacht für eine Verfassungsklage. „Ich habe etwas zu verbergen, nämlich mein Privatleben, meine Intimsphäre“, begründete Glawischnig den Schritt.
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Topic: Space - on May 3, 2012 at 9:44:00 AM CEST
Spy-High: Amateur Astronomers Scour the Sky for Government Secrets
As consumer telescopes and techniques improve, will there be implications for national security?
Earlier this year Iran's defense minister put the world on notice: His nation had developed the ability to "easily" watch spacewalking astronauts from the ground. The announcement was largely ignored, in part because it made the minister sound like a James Bond villain. The boast was also a bit anticlimactic, given that even amateur astronomers are already recording in detail what happens in low Earth orbit. Both the technology involved and the techniques used to observe satellites and even the occasional astronaut perched outside the International Space Station (ISS) are improving, much to the presumed chagrin of governments looking to keep certain on orbital activity confidential.
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