Seagate Technology, the largest maker of computer hard drives, Smade a pre-emptive strike against an emerging competitor on Monday when it filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing STEC Inc. of patent infringement. In the suit, Seagate contends that STEC’s solid-state drive products violate four Seagate patents covering how such drives interface with computers.

So after reading pieces of this EFF 'report' Vs. Comcast Cable the only logical conclusion is that EFF's spokesmen have some spare time.

The WWW Presents --Thursday 28th, September; gaming, privacy, dmca, think-green, wikipedia, email, toyota, big-brother, navy, linux nvidia, and saddam.

• MMO Games forecasted to reach $US 11.8 billion - The main driver for sustained growth in the online games market will be the continued uptake of broadband services around the world", adds David Mercer, Principal Analyst at Strategy Analytics. "Additionally, the very lucrative revenue opportunity in both the massively multiplayer segment and the electronic sell through market will continue to attract new entrants into the online games market."
• Online fingerprint via Posts - Writeprint, helps combat the Web's anonymity by studying thousands of lingual, structural and semantic features in online postings. With 95 percent certainty, it can attribute multiple postings to a single author.  From there, Dark Web has the ability to track a single person over time as his views become radicalized.
• Misuse of the DMCA (Lowes Vs. Lowes-Sucks.com) - The infringement notice failed to identify the alleged trademark infringements, and fails to recognize that the site is a parody.  Here comes the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

the Great Firewall is not really a barrier, but a surveillance system

China’s prohibition of the internet seems to have been more successful than predicted a few years ago. The system has been dubbed “the Great Firewall of China” calling to mind a barrier between China’s part of the internet and the rest of the world.

The researchers call the Chinese censorship system a “panopticon” rather than a firewall. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell if they are being observed or not, thus conveying a "sentiment of an invisible omniscience." A new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.

In 2006, a team at the University of Cambridge, England, discovered that when the Chinese system detects a banned word in data traveling across the network, it sends a series of three "reset" commands to both the source and the destination. These "resets" effectively break the connection. But they also allow researchers to test words and see which ones are censored.

Chinese military hacked into Pentagon By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Richard McGregor in Beijing - The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American officials. [...] The Pentagon is still investigating how much data was downloaded, but one person with knowledge of the attack said most of the information was probably “unclassified”. He said the event had forced officials to reconsider the kind of information they send over unsecured e-mail systems. [...] The National Security Council said the White House had created a team of experts to consider whether the administration needed to restrict the use of BlackBerries because of concerns about cyber espionage.

Mark Hofman at isc.sans.org writes: The main component of most AV products is the signature or pattern recognition component. Essentially a blacklist, I see something I don’t like and I’ll block it. This makes the product only as strong as the capabilities of the people that write the signatures as well as the processes the vendor has in place to produce signatures. [...] The main issue with this approach is that the blacklist method only detects those pieces of malware that are already in the wild. [...] Is something more drastic needed such as the approach taken by the one laptop per child project with Bitfrost. Where every process essentially runs in its own virtual machine?

Unicru is an American computer software company that produces software for Human Resources departments. In particular it provides products and services that allow companies to measure the quality of job applicants and their suitability for particular positions by giving them personality tests. Many of their customers are large retailers such as; Lowe's, Hollywood Video, Albertsons, Circuit City, Toys R Us, PetSmart, Best Buy, and Blockbuster Video.