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Apple / AT&T Ban Google Voice on the IPhone
Author: ian
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Google Voice, GV Mobile, and VoiceCentral have all been banned from Apple's App Store.
No one is quite sure whether to blame Apple or AT&T for the systematic shunning of Google Voice, GV Mobile and VoiceCentral. That's because Apple declines to comment and AT&T tells journalists and bloggers to talk to Apple.
Google Voice, which funnels phone calls to users' home, work and office phones through one number, and its relatives hit a little close to Apple's iPhone because they duplicate some features, such as SMS and Dialer. However, such apps also ding carriers. Google Voice allows free SMS and cheap international calls, and in the near future it will provide number portability so users' numbers aren't tethered to specific devices.
Whatever happened to letting the user decide what apps they want to run on their phone? Users should carefully consider what features will blocked by their Cell Phone Manufacturer and / or Wireless service provider when purchasing a cell phone.
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Added: 07/31/2009
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Blind Teenage Hacker Gets 11 Years in Prison
Author: Jason Mick/DailyTech
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Jason Mick/DailyTech
June 30, 2009
Blind phone hacker?s reign comes to a close
On June 12, 2006, SWAT police stormed a house in Alvarado, Texas. They had received a call from what appeared to be the phone number, from an individual who reported that he was holding hostages and had killed family members with an AK47 while high on hallucinogenic drugs. The operation, which likely cost the state tens of thousands of dollars, came up empty handed ? there were no hostages and no gunman ? merely scared and confused victims. Miles away, Guadalupe Martinez, a ?swatter? ? a phone hacker that spoofs the 911 system with malicious calls ? was laughing.
Many regard phone hacking as a dead pastime, believing it vanished in the 1980s. However, it is alive and well in some parts of the country, with a younger generation of phone hacker?s (known as ?phreakers?) wreaking havoc. The latest case is that of a 19-year-old blind phone hacker in the Boston area who went on a similar spree of phone crimes and harassment, which earned him 11 years in prison.
Matthew Weigman, also known as ?Li?l Hacker?, is legally blind, but that didn?t stop him from joining up with a crew of phone hackers and placing hundreds of harassing calls via the 911 system and other phone systems. The crimes began when Mr. Weigman was only 14, and continued until this year.
Targeting ?employers, landlords, families and friends of multiple party line participants? with zeal, Mr. Weigman showed his victims little mercy. He and his friends would cut phone lines, snoop on conversations, and send police to his enemies? houses in a concerted attempt to get them fired or evicted.
He and his friends used a variety of classic phone-hacking schemes. Among them was ?pretexting? calls ? calls to phone company workers where the group would pose as employees or customers in an effort to gain useful information. Mr. Weigman?s phreaker friends would also use war-dialing ? auto-dialing thousands of numbers to try to gain access to the phone system. They would then meet up and trade passwords and intelligence.
Police first caught wind of Mr. Weigman in 2005 when he called officers to the home of Richard Gasper, a TSA screener, whose daughter Mr. Weigman knew personally. Mr. Gasper?s daughter had refused to participate in phone sex with Mr. Weigman, so he responded with the malicious hoax.
In May 2008 Weigman, his brother and another swatter named Sean Benton, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, drove 70 miles to the house of a Verizon Wireless employee who was investigating the incidents. They tried to ?intimidate and frighten him?. Believing he was above the law, Mr. Weigman saw his unsavory dreams come crashing down; in this case the police showed up and he was arrested.
After a lengthy review and trial, three of his friends ? Stuart Rosoff, Jason Trowbridge and Chad Ward ? earned sentences of five years each. Guadalupe Martinez, the aforementioned friend of the group, received 30 months. Another phreaker, Carlton Nalley pled guilty, but failed to show up for sentencing. And Mr. Weigman, the audacious 19-year-old blind phone hacker, earned the longest sentence of them all ? 11 years (135 months). The sentence is one of the longest to date and brings to an end this crime saga, serving as a warning to other would-be phone hackers of the risk they are taking.
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Added: 07/02/2009
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China accuses Google of spreading pornography
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"We have found that the English version of google.com has spread lots of pornographic, lewd and vulgar content, which is in serious violation of Chinese laws and regulations," said foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang at a news briefing. He said authorities summoned Google representatives and told them to "remove the material immediately."
Chinese Internet users were unable to connect to Google's main search site or its China-based service, google.cn, beginning Wednesday evening. Qin did not respond to questions about whether the government was responsible for the outage. But he said he hoped the problem can be "resolved immediately."
Meanwhile, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Trade Representative Ron Kirk, in a letter to Chinese officials, called on Beijing to revoke its order for the "Green Dam Youth Escort" filtering software to be pre-installed or supplied on a disc with all new PCs in China starting July 1. They warned the rule "poses a serious barrier to trade" and said the software might pose security risks.
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Added: 06/27/2009
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China backs down from requirement for "Green Dam" Web filter
Author: ian
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Just hours before the rule was to have taken effect, the government said it would postpone the requirement for the "Green Dam" software. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it made the decision partly because some PC markets were having difficulty meeting the deadline. It did not say whether the plan might be revived.
Analysts who have reviewed the program say it also contains code to filter material the government considers politically objectionable. Separately, a California company claimed Green Dam contained stolen programming code
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Added: 06/30/2009
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Is Working Online At Home The Next Gold Rush in America?
Author: shadowtech
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Are online jobs the next big thing? For Debbie Firestone it sure is. Debbie, a mother from Colorado Springs, is thriving, in the middle of an economic recession working in the comfort of her own home.
From her website: "I get paid about $25 for every link I post on Google and I get paid every week... I make around $7340 a month right now working the Google Cash Secret Club "
Debbie's story is a very familiar one in these tough times. She lost her job as an account rep for a manufacturing company and a few days later her husband also was laid off from his job as part of cutbacks due to the bad economy.
"We knew we had to do something, so we put our heads together and started trying online job opporuntities." Debbie and her husband John wound up getting caught up in a few quick rich business opportunities that were nothing more than pyramid schemes before finding something that really worked.
"I realized the best thing to do is instead of hoping that a company that you are looking at is going last, why not go with a big, reputable company. After looking at several different companies, I picked the safest bet... Google."
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Added: 08/19/2009
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WebDAV Vulnerability in IIS6 and IIS5
Author: ian
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Vulnerability in Internet Information Services Could Allow Elevation of Privilege.
Due to failing to handle Unicode tokens properly, this exploitation can allow a user to access a protected folder which they do not have access to.
Most IIS6 sites DO NOT have WebDAV enabled because it is disabled by default. However, IIS 5 sites DO have WebDAV enabled by default.
IIS 7 is not affected by this vulnerability.
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Added: 05/22/2009
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