superglaze writes “Lieutenant General Robert J Elder, Jr, a senior figure in US Air Force Cyber Command (AFCYBER), has told ZDNet UK that communication issues are hampering the division’s co-ordination. ‘IT people set up traditional IT networks with the idea of making them secure to operate and defend,’ said Elder. ‘The traditional security approach is to put up barriers, like firewalls — it’s a defense thing — but everyone in an operations network is also part of the [attack] force. We’re trying to move away from clandestine operations. We’re looking for real physics — a bigger bang resulting in collateral damage.’”

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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “Remember those pesky student attorneys from the University of Maine School of Law’s Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic, who inspired the Magistrate Judge to advocate monetary fines against the RIAA lawyers? Well they’re in the RIAA’s face once again, and this time they’re trying to close down the RIAA’s whole ‘discovery’ machine: the lawsuits it files against ‘John Does’ in order to find out their names and addresses. They’ve gone and filed a Rule 11 motion for sanctions (PDF), seeking — among other things — an injunction against all such ‘John Doe’ cases, arguing that the cases seek to circumvent the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act which protects student privacy rights, are brought for improper purposes of obtaining discovery, getting publicity, and intimidation, and are in flagrant violation of the joinder rules and numerous court orders. If the injunction is allowed, the RIAA will have to go back to the drawing board to find another way of finding out the identities of college students, and the ruling — depending on its reasoning — might even be applicable to the non-college cases involving commercial ISPs.”

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patspam writes “As a software engineer I come up with patentable ideas each now and then, ideas which I’m not interested in pursuing myself but which I’d like to keep out of the hands of private entities/patent trolls in my own personal effort to defeat software patents. Should I patent the ideas and donate them to some sort of open source foundation? Or just blog about the ideas so that the ‘prior art’ exists in the public domain? What’s your strategy for fighting against restrictive software patents?”

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psyced writes “Steganography is a technique to encode secret messages in the background noise of an audio recording or photograph. There have been attempts at steganalysis in the past, but scientists at FH St. Pölten are developing strategies to block out secret data in VoIP and even GSM phone calls by preemptively modifying background noise (link is to a Google translation of the German original) on a level that stays inaudible or invisible, yet destroys any message encoded within. I wonder if this method could be applied to hiding messages in executables, too.”

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kamlapati sends us to EETimes for news that the Chaos Personal Club in Germany and researchers from the University of Virginia have cracked the encryption scheme used in a common RFID chip, NXP’s Mifare Classic. According to the article the device is used in many contactless smartcard applications including fare collection, loyalty cards, and access control cards. NXP downplays the significance of the hack, saying that that model of RFID card uses old technology and they do a much superior job these days.

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1shooter writes “Researchers in France are using a synchrotron as a giant X-ray machine to peer into the insides of opaque amber to reveal insects dating from the age of dinosaurs. ‘The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, produces an intense, high-energy light that can pierce just about any material, revealing its inner structure… From more than 600 blocks, they’ve identified nearly 360 fossil animals: wasps, flies, ants, spiders.’ The process reveals detailed 3D images that can be used to make near-perfect enlarged scale models of the bugs using a ‘plastic printer.’”

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Chris Blanc tips an Ars writeup on a survey of consumer attitudes toward targeted advertising. The results of the survey, conducted for TRUSTe, confirm that advertisers are in a tough spot. “[The survey company] randomly selected 1,015 nationally representative adults… Although only 40 percent of the group was familiar with the term ‘behavioral targeting,’ most users were well aware of the practice. 57 percent reported that they weren’t comfortable their activities [were being] tracked for advertising purposes, even if the information couldn’t be tied to their names or real-life identities. Simultaneously, 72 percent of those surveyed said that they find online advertising annoying when the ads are not relevant to their needs…”

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kamlapati sends us to EETimes for news that the Chaos Personal Club in Germany and researchers from the University of Virginia have cracked the encryption scheme used in a common RFID chip, NXP’s Mifare Classic. According to the article the device is used in many contactless smartcard applications including fare collection, loyalty cards, and access control cards. NXP downplays the significance of the hack, saying that that model of RFID card uses old technology and they do a much better job these days.

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An anonymous reader writes “Yesterday Engadget Mobile received a nice letter from Deutsche Telekom / T-Moblie demanding that they stop using the color magenta on engadgetmobile.com. (”Yep, seriously” they say.) This day several sites have gone magenta in a show of solidarity.”

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