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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
HD-DVDs are protected using a system known as AACS. In order for someone to bypass AACS and make a copy of a disc, a 16 digit hexidecimal code must be first known.
When the code was first discovered, it was posted on Digg. It was quickly removed by the Digg staff, ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
A guy with no money started making furniture out of FedEx boxes, all of which were given away for free and obtained legally. FedEx decided to go after him.
They weren't concerned about the use of the boxes, but the fact that he posted photos of his new furniture.
Just to ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In the spring of 2003, 15,000 internal e-mails from Diebold were leaked onto the internet. The e-mails largely showed the concern that the company had over the security of their own voting machines.
Abusing the power of the DMCA, Diebold sent cease-and-desist letters to every site that had posted the e-mails. ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Internet Security Systems research analyst Michael Lynn was scheduled to speak at the 2005 Black Hat conference about a flaw in Cisco's routers that was a major security threat.
Just before he was to speak, Cisco threatened him with legal action and his company decided not to give the presentation.
He promptly ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
When AT&T was trying to get the FCC to allow them to acquire Bellsouth, one of the concessions they had to make was to offer a low-end version of DSL for $10/month.
AT&T did as they were told, but tried their best to keep it very quiet. The result was much ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
AllofMP3 is a music store operating out of Russia that (illegally) sells MP3 files for pennies each.
They're already quite popular, but the people trying to stop them only make them bigger. In particular, US trade representative Susan Schwab has been very outspoken against them.
This recenly led an Allofmp3 spokesman to ...
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