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Hacker myths debunked … maybe

26-Feb-07

Dark Reading has done a survey of “black hats” to shed some light on what they call the top 5 myths about hackers. I’m not sure how you take an accurate poll of people who want to be completely anonymous, but I guess they have their methods:
In a survey of 116 individuals who spend [...]

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HD DVD and Blu-ray DRM Cracked

20-Feb-07

AACS (Advanced Access Content System), the security standard used to enforce Digital Rights Management on new high definition media has been cracked. That didn’t take long at all! We all know the DRM used in old school DVDs has been cracked forever, but now the new and improved security used in HD DVD and Blu-ray [...]

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Sandia Labs Backhacker Wins $4.3m in Court

20-Feb-07

A (former) security guy at Sandia Labs, Shawn Carpenter, was fired for “backhacking” systems that he detected attacks from. “Backhacking occurs when networks are attacked and someone on the hacked network responds with a counterhack or attack.” Even though he was cooperating with the FBI and Army Research Lab on the investigations, Sandia did not [...]

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