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• Mega-Explosion in Space - David Narkevik, an undergraduate at West Virginia University, was re-analysing data from the Parkes telescope in Australia when he came across a five-millisecond burst of energy so powerful that it "saturated" the equipment
• New Radiohead Album Oct 10th - If you order the download only, you can pay HOWEVER MUCH MONEY YOU WANT for it. Like, there's no set price. 
• GTA: San Andreas Anime Mod - I was just surfing the net and I found this video on youtube of an anime mod for the PC version of GTA: San Andreas.  
• Computer Display Calibration 101 - If you've invested in a quality monitor for your computer, you owe it to yourself-- and your eyes-- to spend 15 minutes setting it up properly for your viewing environment

Moon - High-Rez

• TOR Exposed - A piece of JavaScript to instantiate a Java socket call back to the origin site. In doing so it bypasses the proxy settings of the browser, allowing you to de-anonymize people using proxies. [...] It works great for Tor or just about any HTTP proxy that I can think of. Cool stuff.
• Another spacecraft back to Tempel 1 -  Stardust is due to reach Comet Tempel 1 in 2011. By then the debris cloud will be long gone and we should get a clear view of the crater.
• You can’t fight file sharing? - What is the main reason why The Pirate Bay decided to file charges?  You have to join it, embrace it and adopt to it. It’s the only way, like it or not. It’s not going away, it’s grows every day and it’s for a good reason - the people want it. And the people are their customers, why fight them? 
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The (IT) press is buzzing with attacks against the onion router (TOR).

The problem is lies in an atack performed and used to gain access to mailboxes by creating and sniffing the unencrypted side of some Tor exit nodes.

"Tor -tries to- provide anonymity. Anonymity and security are two different beasts. When passing unencrypted traffic (such as POP3, IMAP etc) you are basically not only handing the malicious Tor exit node the contents of your email, but also -in many cases- the keys (login and password) to your mailbox. - By Swa Frantzen [ http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3366 ]Read more

With so many resources available to Tor users I thought it would be nice to bookmark and categorize a few of them. Read more

Over the weekend I was introduced to ELE, Everything Leaves Encrypted.Read more