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| Data Theft Soars to Unprecedented Levels |
| from the never-been-easier-to-be-someone-else dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday December 30, @20:17 (Privacy) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/31/0034252 |
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A Wired article reports on data loss in 2007, and the numbers aren't good. [0]Credit card and social security theft was at an all-time high, with even more losses expected in 2008. Information thieves, it seems, are just one step ahead of IT security. "While companies, government agencies, schools and other institutions are spending more to protect ever-increasing volumes of data with more sophisticated firewalls and encryption, the investment often is too little too late. 'More of them are experiencing data breaches, and they're responding to them in a reactive way, rather than proactively looking at the company's security and seeing where the holes might be,' said Linda Foley, who founded the San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center after becoming an identity theft victim herself."
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0. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/topheadlines/~3/208658703/DATA_BREACHES
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| How To Lose Your Job, Thanks To The Internet |
| from the it's-easy-if-you-know-how dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday December 30, @22:25 (The Internet) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/31/0111255 |
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The New York Times has up an article discussing the trend of employers tracking the 'free time' activities of their employees via their web presence. "When they do go off the clock and off the corporate network, how they spend their private time should be of no concern to their employer, even if the Internet, by its nature, makes some off-the-job activities more visible to more people than was previously possible. In the absence of strong protections for employees, poorly chosen words or even a single photograph posted online in one's off-hours can have career-altering consequences." The piece [0]likens this activity to the 'Sociological Department' that the Ford Company ran to monitor the home lives of their workers. Overstatement, or the corp as Big Brother?
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| Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War |
| from the might-be-early-to-choose-sides dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Monday December 31, @08:11 (Media) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/31/0620249 |
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The New York Times notes that, despite the increasing variety of programs on the Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats, most US consumers are [0]staying out of the DVD format war. This is a wise decision, the article states, because the two formats are essentially at a stalemate. "The two camps are victims of their own earlier success with DVD. The standard DVDs offered a quantum leap in quality from the picture and sound of VHS videotape, and for many that was more than adequate. In addition, DVD players that can convert images to near high-definition quality can be found for under $100, hundreds less than a true high-definition DVD player, further reducing the urgency to upgrade to one of the new formats."
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| Wii Hacked for Better Homebrew Games |
| from the playing-with-your-own-toys dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 31, @14:17 (Wii (Games|
| http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/31/1834204 |
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[0]arbourp writes to mention that hackers Michael Steil and Felix Domke have demonstrated a way to [1]hack the Wii that makes running homebrew code much easier. "The hack advances the possibility of running homebrew code with access to full system resources on the device, not just programs that Nintendo has sanctioned. Such games might be developed to run from a DVD drive, at least in theory. No such games are available as yet and Nintendo may respond by attempting to revoke compromised encryption keys. However history shows such countermeasures are likely to ultimately prove futile."
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1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/31/nintendo_wii_hack/
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