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Spanish Linux users launch legal challenge to Microsoft’s secure boot

01 April 2013

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Source: InfoSecurity Magazine - Posted by Anthony Pell
Hispalinux, a Spanish association representing Linux users and developers, has filed an EU complaint against Windows 8’s UEFI Secure Boot, calling it “a de facto technological jail for computer booting systems.”
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Infamous Hacker Weev Sentenced to 41 Months in Jail for AT&T ‘Hack’

19 March 2013

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Source: BetaBeat - Posted by Dave Wreski
He'll also have to pay AT&T $73,000 in damages. Andrew Auernheimer, better known by his pseudonym “weev,” was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for exploiting an AT&T security flaw that allowed him to collect and publish the email addresses of 114,000 AT&T iPad owners.
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Feds Say Man Deserved Arrest Because Jacket Said ‘Occupy Everything’

04 March 2013

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Source: Wired - Posted by Anthony Pell
A Florida man deserved to be arrested inside the Supreme Court building last year for wearing a jacket painted with “Occupy Everything,” and is lucky he was only apprehended on unlawful entry charges, the Department of Justice says.
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Supreme Court Thwarts Challenge to Warrantless Surveillance

28 February 2013

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Source: Wired - Posted by Anthony Pell
A divided Supreme Court halted a legal challenge Tuesday to a once-secret warrantless surveillance project that gobbles up Americans’ electronic communications, a program that Congress eventually legalized in 2008 and again in 2012.
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Obama executive order on cyber attacks

14 February 2013

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Source: Stuff NZ - Posted by Anthony Pell
US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order seeking better protection of the country's critical infrastructure from cyber attacks that are a growing concern to the economy and national security.
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