law-enforcement
Hackers Brew Self-Destruct Code to Counter Police Forensics
Hackers have released an application designed to thwart a Microsoft-packaged forensic toolkit used by law enforcement agencies to examine a suspect’s hard drive during a raid. The hacker tool, dubbed Decaf , is designed to counteract the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, aka Cofee. The latter is a suite of 150 bundled, off-the-shelf forensic tools that run from a script.
Continue reading »European ISPs slam secret ACTA talks
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations threaten the Internet, say 1,700 European ISPs, all members of EuroISPA , Its “heavy-handed measures would create a serious danger of undermining and restricting the open innovative space that lies at the very heart of the Internet’s success,” says association president Malcolm Hutty. “This agreement would have a negative impact on Internet users without having an appreciable impact on fighting illicit use of copyrighted material.” Leaks “suggest that the series of measures being considered are severe and wide-ranging including the possibility of users being disconnected from the Internet,” says the group today, going on »»» EuroISPA is concerned that the attempt to implement such measures through a trade agreement, rather than a conventional legislative process, will not allow the various stakeholders, such as European citizens’ representatives, to enter the debate. If some of the proposals currently under discussion in the context of these trade negotiations are adopted, Internet Services Providers will have to implement ‘graduated response’ measures, which could lead to users being disconnected from the Internet.
Continue reading »Prerelease music pirates face 4 years in prison, $250k fine
If illegally copying music files doesn’t annoy the RIAA enough, P2P leaks of prerelease albums are enough to send content owners into a blind rage. The industry seems to consider prerelease albums to be worth much more than they are after their release, and when law enforcement manages to catch a few of those responsible for the leaks, they go to town. Such is the case with four members of piracy group Rabid Neurosis (or RNS, for short) who were indicted this week for conspiracy to commit copyright infringement.
Continue reading »Golf-powered SchwarmStrom
Hamburg-based renewable energy group Lichtblick and Volkswagen have teamed up to push the concept of ‘SchwarmStrom’ (swarm power) to, “allow Germany to abandon nuclear and coal power stations sooner and help compensate for the volatility of renewables like wind and solar power”. In the coming year they’ll install in people’s basements 100,000 gas-powered engines, similar to those in VW Golf cars, which will collectively produced some 2,000 megawatts of electricity, continues Agence France-Press . Lichtblick and Volkswagen, “say the plants would produce not only heating and hot water but also electricity, with any excess power fed into the local grid,”” it says.
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