Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 8:22:05 PM CET
Hackers Invade Texas A&M Phone System
Hackers in Saudi Arabia infiltrated Texas A&M's phone system, using it as a conduit to make free collect calls, officials said.
Phone carriers alerted the school to the suspicious activity Thursday, said Walt Magnussen, A&M's associate director of telecommunications. The university sent an emergency e-mail to employees about the attack that urged them to change their mailbox passwords.
The fraud affected five voice mailboxes among the university's 25,000 phone lines. The number or cost of the unauthorized calls wasn't immediately known, The Eagle reported Friday.
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Topic: - on January 9, 2003 at 7:31:53 PM CET
Xbox Challenge - Yeah, We're back and back strong!
Stay tuned, we will have a new separate client ready for continuing the Xbox Challenge. With the recent media frenzy we stopped the project to research the legal aspect before preceding any further, it seemed ok until we started receiving 75,000 unique hits per day. IRC Channel Open for Neo!
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The Squares of RSA-576
For informative purposes (and because its really cool) I thought I would show you the Squares that make up RSA-576. We figured these out on Saturday.
n = 1881988129206079638386972394616504398071635633794173
82700763356422988859715234665485319060606504743045317388
011303396716 199692321205734031879550656996221305168759307650257059
n = a^2 + b^2 + c^2
a = 398017045382089878415265626948620390590002479658724153
282455340640389423051450174406163
b = 1725724326360365415307337925664645215926710369527337257466
76634094909201001175453410463
c = 11
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Topic: - on January 9, 2003 at 4:49:07 PM CET
Gates shows gadgets with 'smart' technology
Touting an array of ''smart'' watches and portable video players, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is offering further evidence that the world's largest software company sees slick consumer gadgets as computing's future.
This fall, watchmakers Fossil, Citizen and Finland's Suunto plan to begin selling wristwatches equipped with a chip that can receive a constant, low-bandwidth stream of data over the FM radio spectrum, Microsoft officials said.
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Topic: - on January 9, 2003 at 12:48:50 PM CET
The next big thing from Apple: Futuristic backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor aeh NO 17-inch PowerBook G4
The new 17-inch PowerBook G4. Featuring the largest, most spectacular display ever to grace a portable, miraculously engineered into a 1-inch-thick notebook that’s ultralight — just 6.8 pounds (3.1 kg), ultradesirable and starts at £2599.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2003 at 11:51:43 AM CET
Das Xbox-Linux-Project
Vor einem halben Jahr machte eine anonyme Ausschreibung Schlagzeilen: 200.000 Dollar sollte der kassieren, der die Xbox Linux-fähig machen könne. Das ist geglückt - und der anonyme Spender outet sich: Hinter der Aktion steht MP3.com-Gründer Michael Robertson.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2003 at 11:32:43 AM CET
Massiver Angriff auf den Xbox-Kopierschutz
Neo Project will mit verteiltem Rechnen den Xbox Public Key entschlüsseln
Distributed-Computing-Projekte, bei denen viele Internet-Nutzer einen Teil ihrer Rechenkapazität zum Knacken von Verschlüsselungs-Algorithmen, der Suche nach Medikamenten, Außerirdischen oder der Vorhersage von Aktienkursen zur Verfügung stellen, gibt es bereits seit längerem. Das private Neo Project hat sich nun dem Knacken des Xbox Public Key angenommen, um etwa die Xbox-Linux-Distribution ohne installierten Modchip auf Microsofts Spielekonsole Xbox zum Laufen bringen zu können.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2003 at 1:35:35 AM CET
25 Years of Animal Magnetism
O'Reilly
What animal first appeared on an O'Reilly cover? Where did Larry Wall and Tim Bunce first meet? Who put the first advertisement on the web? What did Linus say as he arrived, late, to the second Open Source Summit? What O'Reilly book warned against the dangers of the "technological Djinn?" The answers are all embedded in the story of O'Reilly's first 25 years.
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Topic: - on January 5, 2003 at 6:02:23 PM CET
Microsoft Enters Online Software Sales Arena
Chris Hoofnagle, legislative counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, told NewsFactor that consumers should be concerned about using product activation codes.
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Topic: - on January 5, 2003 at 5:53:54 PM CET
The ethics of linkage
If you read "meta" sites like Slashdot, Kuro5hin, Fark, Met4filter (natch), and Memepool you've probably encountered links to stories that you can't reach -- namely because the act of linking to a server not prepared for massive traffic has brought down the server, or worse, put the hapless soul over their bandwidth cap denying any use to anyone for the rest of the month or day or whatever time period the ISP or hosting provider uses to allocate bandwidth.
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Topic: - on January 5, 2003 at 5:43:03 PM CET
Microsoft's masterplan to screw phone partner - full details
If Microsoft's extended family of lawyers was thinking it could now kick back and anticipate a kind of extended Spring Break for the rest of this Bush administration, the pre-Xmas filing by British phone company Sendo could yet be the cause of a few unexpected late nights.
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Topic: - on January 5, 2003 at 4:47:32 PM CET
What Marx can tell us about Bill Gates
In 1946 the Marx Brothers decided to make an independent feature film entitled A Night in Casablanca. IMHO (as they abbreviate 'in my humble opinion' on the net), the spoof is immeasurably superior to the original. Groucho plays the manager of the Hotel Casablanca, whose predecessors have been murdered by an escaped Nazi war criminal played by Sig Ruman. Chico and Harpo team up to protect Groucho, who runs the hotel in his own distinctive style.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 12:23:25 PM CET
Operating System and Web Server for -- billgates.com
The site billgates.com is running Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.3.0 on Solaris 8.
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