Tuesday, October 21, 2008

21-Oct-2008 AM clippings

Enjoy:

According to the NZ Government portal, ACTA consultations are still going on, though nobody seems to be able to say who with:
http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/med-discovers-rss-film-at-eleven/

New UK legislation will require customers to present their passport when buying a new mobile phone, stepping closer to an open prison:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4969312.ece

iGoogle gets a new look front-end, but it's not universally popular:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081018-google-monetizes-start-page-vocal-minority-gets-vocal.html

Ordinary wired keyboards can be remotely "sniffed" from 20 metres:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/20/keyboard_sniffing_attack/

Quantum hackers, or 'Quackers', break into supposedly impervious optical quantum cryptograpy links:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg20026785.700-quackers-tarnish-quantum-secrecys-halo-of-invincibility.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news4_head_mg20026785.700

Trouble on the Hubble as the systems on the aging space telescope just keep on crashing:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9117459&intsrc=hm_list

And finally. Caltech scientists develop logic gates that work inside a cell's RNA. Weird side effect - you glow green if you take drugs:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1938

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