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Has the NSA "poisoned the well" for responsible disclosure? 15 Jun 2013 | 09:51 pm
Revelations about the PRISM project involve US tech companies that have been compelled to provide special assistance to US intelligence agencies. Will secret arrangements between tech companies and US...
WPA2 is vulnerable (hole196) 14 Jun 2013 | 01:53 pm
Do you think your wireless communications are secure? Think again. There is a vulnerability built into the WPA2 protocol itself! It's based on abusing the GTK (Group Temporal Key) and can be used to c...
City of Munich: "Migration to sustainable desktop completed successfully" 28 May 2013 | 04:06 pm
Munich is now using a unified desktop system, Limux, its own distribution based on Ubuntu GNU/Linux on 14,000 of its total 15,000 desktops, spread over 51 offices across the city. That is 2,000 more t...
Using Solr With TYPO3 On Debian Wheezy 22 May 2013 | 03:42 pm
TYPO3's default search extension called "Indexed Search" is fine for small web sites, but if your web site is bigger (> 500 pages), it is getting very slow. Fortunately, you can replace it with a sear...
Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write 14 May 2013 | 08:31 pm
Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H's associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make us...
FSF certifies ThinkPenguin USB Wifi adapter with Atheros chip to be free software friendly 1 May 2013 | 10:51 am
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today awarded Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the TPE-N150USB Wireless N USB Adapter, sold by ThinkPenguin. The RYF certification mark means that the pr...
Switching govnerment desktops to FOSS saves a projected 5000€ per year 26 Apr 2013 | 07:20 pm
Cenatic, Spain's open source center, has published a model to help calculate cost savings that are possible by switching to free and open source software on desktop PCs. Switching a basic government d...
Don’t let the myths fool you: the W3C’s plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users. 25 Apr 2013 | 07:38 pm
The Free Culture Foundation has posted a thorough response to the most common and misinformed defenses of the W3C's Extended Media Extensions (EME) proposal to inject DRM into HTML5. The FCF counters ...
A call to arms for obfuscated bridges 19 Apr 2013 | 01:57 am
Fresh obfuscated Tor bridges are needed more than ever, since they are the only way for people to access Tor in some areas of the world (like China, Iran and Syria). But it is not the same as an exit ...
ARM says its chips and GNU/Linux will sweep the industry 7 Apr 2013 | 02:18 am
Vendors, according to ARM, are looking to standardize on one chip architecture and a single operating system such as GNU/Linux across their product lines. ARM claims it is the only one that scales fro...
