Topic: SECURITY - on May 15, 2016 at 9:55:00 AM CEST
Hidden Microphones Exposed As Part of Government Surveillance Program In The Bay Area
Hidden microphones that are part of a clandestine government surveillance program that has been operating around the Bay Area has been exposed.
Imagine standing at a bus stop, talking to your friend and having your conversation recorded without you knowing. It happens all the time, and the FBI doesn’t even need a warrant to do it.
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Topic: Linux - on May 15, 2016 at 9:53:00 AM CEST
The Linux command that you should never say out loud
If, when working on your Linux servers, you occasionally mistype a command and then curse, you might feel right at home with a very oddly named Linux command. It might even reduce the frustration you feel by helping you to correct your typing mistakes. The tool is called, well, thef?ck -- but with the ? replaced by the obvious letter. And, in spite of its rather off-color name, a lot of people are very excited to have a little help getting past their command line mistakes.
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Topic: Linux - on May 15, 2016 at 9:51:00 AM CEST
After three years of Linux, Munich reveals draft of crunch report that could decide its open source future
A German city that undertook one of the world's largest shifts from Windows to Linux is struggling with buggy and outdated software.
Munich city council spent years migrating more than 15,000 staff to LiMux, a custom-version of Ubuntu, and other open-source software - a move the city said had saved it more than €10m ($11m). Microsoft's attempts to avoid such a high-profile shift by Germany's third-largest city saw the then CEO Steve Ballmer fly to Munich in 2003 to meet with the mayor at the time.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 14, 2016 at 3:59:00 PM CEST
Guide to Computing
This colourful series of ten historic computers, created in close collaboration between INK and Docubyte, documents the beginning of our computing history.
Featuring such famous machines as the IBM 1401 and Alan Turing’s Pilot ACE, Guide to Computing showcases a minimalist approach to design that precedes even Apple’s contemporary motifs.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on May 14, 2016 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
Zimbabwe’s trillion-dollar note: from worthless paper to hot investment
The central bank of Zimbabwe issued $100,000,000,000,000 notes during the last days of hyperinflation in 2009, and they barely paid for a loaf of bread. But their value has shot up.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 14, 2016 at 11:31:00 AM CEST
Hear the Greatest Hits of Isao Tomita (RIP), the Father of Japanese Electronic Music
During his childhood in the Japan of the 1930s, Isao Tomita would have barely had the chance to hear Western music. But when the Second World War came to an end, the introduction of local U.S. Army broadcasts must have felt like the opening of a sonic floodgate: “I thought I was listening to music from outer space,” remembered the man that child grew up to become a respected composer as well as a pioneer of electronic music known for his cutting-edge, intergalactically-minded interpretations of the work of such Western predecessors as Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, and Gustav Holst.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on May 10, 2016 at 10:04:00 AM CEST
Als Bleistift geboren: Peter Glaser, Autor und Journalist (Teil 2)
Achtung Canvas-Fingerprinting cba.fro.at
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Topic: logisch - on May 10, 2016 at 9:59:00 AM CEST
Satoshi - wikileaks
We'd like to thank #Satoshi hoaxer Dr Craig Wright for showing how bankrupt the fact-checking standards are at the BBC, LRB & Economist.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 8, 2016 at 11:07:00 AM CEST
Why America Can't Quit the Drug War
After 45 years, more than $1 trillion wasted, and the creation of the world's largest prison system, America still lacks the political will to change its failed drug policy.
I n March, the commander in chief of the War on Drugs stood in front of a crowd of policymakers, advocates and recovering addicts to declare that America has been doing it wrong. Speaking at the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta – focused on an overdose epidemic now killing some 30,000 Americans a year – President Barack Obama declared, "For too long we have viewed the problem of drug abuse ... through the lens of the criminal justice system," creating grave costs: "We end up with jails full of folks who can't function when they get out. We end up with people's lives being shattered."
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Topic: SECURITY - on May 7, 2016 at 10:32:00 PM CEST
Phrack publishes its first issue in four years
==Phrack Inc.==
Volume 0x0f, Issue 0x45, Phile #0x01 of 0x10
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Hello Phrack readers! It has been a long time, hasn't it? Aren't you relieved that the world didn't end in 2012?! What if the Mayans were right? What if comets hit Earth? Yes, we were worried too, so we decided to take some time off and enjoy the last days of this planet. Once enough time had passed, we were pretty sure our species was not going to disappear. It was about time we returned to our blinking terminals again and finish what we started :>
Phrack #69 brings you three new technical articles in addition to paper feed and the standard Linenoise, Loopback and International Scenes philes. The Firefox hater code-named argp presents advanced exploitation techniques and attempts to build abstract primitives for taking advantage of various memory-related vulnerabilities on your "favorite" multi-heap browser ;> Huku, some guy who, obviously, visits porn sites a lot, has written an art of exploitation phile focusing on Adobe Flash Player (hey, this is not P0 man!). Last but not least, uty presents a VT-x based technique for installing inline hooks and backdooring a whole system. We have spent much time debugging this, we hope you do like it.
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0x01 Introduction ........................................ Phrack Staff
0x02 Phrack Prophile on Solar Designer ................... Phrack Staff
0x03 Phrack World News ................................... Phrack Staff
0x04 Linenoise ........................................... various
0x05 Loopback ............................................ Phrack Staff
0x06 The Fall of Hacker Groups ........................... strauss
0x07 Revisiting Mac OS X Kernel Rootkits ................. fG!
0x08 Adobe Shockwave: A case study on memory disclosure ................... Aaron Portnoy
0x09 Modern Objective-C Exploitation Techniques .......... nemo
0x0a Self-patching Microsoft XML with misalignments and factorials ...................................... Alisa Esage
0x0b Internet Voting: A Requiem for the Dream ............ kerrnel
0x0c Attacking Ruby on Rails Applications ................ joernchen
0x0d Obituary for an Adobe Flash Player bug .............. huku
0x0e OR'LYEH? The Shadow over Firefox .................... argp
0x0f How to hide a hook: A hypervisor for rootkits ....... uty & saman
0x10 International Scenes ................................ various
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Topic: SECURITY - on May 7, 2016 at 11:15:00 AM CEST
Subgraph OS
A user friendly platform for secure communication and computing. Subgraph OS has numerous security enhancements and is designed to protect data and privacy.
Subgraph believes that the best way to empower people to communicate and live freely is to develop technology that is secure, free, open-source, and verifiably trustworthy. Subgraph OS is an important part of that vision. The Internet is a hostile environment, and recent revelations have made it more apparent than ever before that risk to every day users extends beyond the need to secure the network transport - the endpoint is also at risk. Subgraph OS was designed from the ground-up to reduce the risks in endpoint systems so that individuals and organizations around the world can communicate, share, and collaborate without fear of surveillance or interference by sophisticated adversaries through network borne attacks.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on May 6, 2016 at 5:04:00 PM CEST
Vom Bleistift zur Tastatur: Peter Glaser
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