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●● Links – Microsoft Security Failure, Spyware, Pollution and Corruption

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Securitybittorrent.com crackedMalware was put into Windows client software.Germany admits to running malware to spy on citizens.The software is capable of spying on keystrokes, recording Skype and other desktop programs, recording from the microphone and planting evidence on victims computers. The software is also insecure. “Windows” is not mentioned but Bundestrojaner is a typical piece of Microsoft only Malware. Richard Stallman reminds us that Windows itself is malware[2]USAF spills a few details about Windows malware infesting their killer drone base.They said it was first noticed on “a stand-alone mission support network using a Windows-based operating system.” And they called it “a credential stealer,” transmitted by portable hard drives. … didn’t say whether the clean-up process had been completed; insiders report that the infection has been particularly difficult to remove, requiring hard drives to be erased and rebuilt.The statement was released in OOXML format,do you feel lucky? It nonsensically says, “The malware in question is a credential stealer, not a keylogger,” and demonstrates a misplaced confidence in Windows security through anti-virus and other snake oil.Defence/Police/Aggression12 made up and selectively enforced laws used to harass the Occupy protests around the USChicago, Dallas and New York seem the most odious. Responses like the human microphone have actually made the protests more effectiveMeet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPDAn Open Web Application Security Project member acted as an informer for the FBI and NYPD by infiltrating a mail list. He unintentionally revealed this when sending archive to a smear campaign. This is what Aaron Barr, working for HB Garry proposed to do for the US Chamber of commerce, but we don’t yet have evidence that this infiltrator also engaged in impersonation or acted as a provocateur. Environment/Energy/WildlifeGlobal warming wrecks concrete.Higher temperatures will accelerate the action of salt water by 15 per cent but it is the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that will do most damage. Later this century the extra acid produced in rainfall will attack concrete four times as fast as at present, The European Commission voted to designate Canadian tar sand oil as particularly dirty for its high production of CO2.Transcandada prepares to build regardless of existing laws.Koch pollution kills people in ArkansasFinanceBush gave business a temporary tax break on “foreign profits”, which hurt the US treasury and did no good for the US economy. Now the same profiteers want it again.The usual villains, Apple Inc, Cisco Systems Inc, Oracle Corp and Microsoft Corp, are pushing for the tax breaks to bring home money stored in havens like Ireland. The last time they got their way, they put the money into bonuses and dividends rather than the promised investment and jobs.Occupy Dublin Protests Grow in “Europe’s Next Greece”The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is hated in Ireland for their role last year in a major round of austerity measures that cut social services while bailing out Irish banks with over €85 billion. “The State has sold itself completely to the financial cartels,” a 42 year-old unemployed construction worker tells me. “They are transferring more wealth out of Ireland than British landlords ever did, and these are Irish people doing it!”Wall Street damage threatens more than Greece, Ireland and other smaller states.The “rescuers” of GreeceThe “rescuers” of Greece say they will keep it from immediate default in exchange for additional painful cuts — and they will come back for more cuts next year. Greeks now plan to occupy government buildings. If they occupy Parliament quickly enough, they may prevent the current round of cuts from being passed, and force default now rather than later. The longer it is postponed, the more cuts.Anti-TrustIf DOJ Really Wants To Review Anticompetitive Patenting, Why Not Look At Intellectual Ventures?Small rebuke for Apple in AustraliaAn Australian judge has rejected Apple’s attempt to have Samsung forced to give the Cupertino company advance notice of new product launches, as well as have limitations placed on tablets other than the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Speaking of yesterday’s preliminary sales injunction ruling, Justice Annabelle Bennett told Apple that “it doesn’t apply to any other player in the marketplace,”PR/AstroTurf/LobbyingVulture capitalist smears Wall Street protesters through fake journalistsSinger, manager of a $17 billion hedge fund, earned the moniker “vulture capitalist” for buying the debt of Third World countries for pennies on the dollar, then using his political and legal connections to extract massive judgments to force collection – even from nations suffering from starvation and violent conflicts. … Singer purchased near-bankrupt asbestos companies before his allies in Congress changed an asbestos-liability law to make his investment incredibly profitable. PrivacyThat was fast. Facebook whent back to tracking everyone, not just facebook users, whether they like it or not.one of the tracking cookies used by Facebook, called “datr”, tracks users “even if the user had never been to the Facebook site, and even if they didn’t click a ‘like’ or share’ button”, Cubrilovic wrote. The cookie was previously disabled following revelations in The Wall Street Journal earlier this year but has since returned.Automatic license plate recognition is being deployed in the US. It is not systematic and ubiquitous, as in the UK, but if there are enough recognizers the result could be the same.Siri demands full data rapethe things you say will be recorded and sent to Apple to process your requests. Your device will also send Apple other information, such as your first name and nickname; the names, nicknames, and relationship with you (e.g., ‘my dad’) of your address book contacts; and song names in your collection (collectively, your ‘User Data’). … you agree and consent to Apple’s and its subsidiaries’ and agents’ transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of this information, including your voice input and User Data … If you have Location Services turned on, the location of your iOS Device at the time you make a request will also be sent to AppleThe terms prove the practicality of all inclusive surveillance that privacy advocates have been warning us against for years. Non free phones can take the same with or without user consent.Education WatchVoters in North Carolina turn out against Art PopeThe Washington state PTAs corrupted by Gates and Broad mostly represented rich schools in the first place.Weekly Update for the Week of October 9, 2010Some weeks are just better than others when it comes to education news. This week was a great one in terms of outrages and atrocitiesMark Zuckerberg takes over Newark schools with a modest, matched donation and arrogance, “letting the people have their say is not how professional philanthropy works.” There’s fraud in Florida charter schools. The US Secretary of Education walked on 1,000 parents at a LA meeting and spent more time with millionaires. A reporter was ejected from Jeb Bush’s Ed Summit in San Franscisco for asking about Rupert Murdoch. Charter schools in NY flunk DOE evaluations. California Gov. Jerry Brown wrote a tough indictment of testing based reform. Civil RightsFor the first time, the Israeli government has arrested someone for violence against Arabs.Powerful resistance seems to be scuttling the Tories’ plans to destroy the UK National Health Service.People around the world should avoid becoming like the US.Drug companies run sales campaigns disguised as research which kill patients and cost government and private insurance hundreds of billions.New Free Trade Agreements Threaten to Kill Jobs and Labor Rightsbetween 1993 and 2004, the US trade deficit with Mexico ballooned by $107 billion, which cost 1,015,290 US jobs, 123,000 in California. … Mexico lost a million jobs just in the first year the treaty took effect. Because the treaty allowed US grain companies to dump corn in Mexico, 1.3 million farmers lost their livelihood as well. Rights of Return. A brief or tortured US Supreme Court decisions that put big business interests ahead of everyone else and above the law.Efforts to curb employment fraud.the US Department of Labor, the Internal Revenue Service, and 11 states announced that they were taking an important step toward stemming the practice of misclassifying workers as independent contractors, which robs workers of pay and benefits and puts those who follow the rules at a competitive disadvantage.Turkey locks up student protesters using anti-terror laws.Obama’s star chamber orders executions without audit.Intellectual MonopoliesBusiness method patent monopolies eat into biotech.some of the largest patent holders are showing signs that they are interested in the biotechnology sector. For example, Intellectual Ventures of Bellevue, Washington, founded by Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft executive, owns hundreds of patents in the biotechnology industry. Microsoft’s Subtle Knife Through the Heart of EU Software IndustryWhat European politicians fail to understand is that bringing in software patents in this way will not benefit indigenous companies, but only the large US companies – since they are the ones with the money to patent in Europe every trivial idea they already claim in the US. Small European software houses that obtain them will either be forced to cross-license, or simply sued until they run out of money. Either way, software patents will bring them no advantages, and many disadvantages.CopyrightsThe hidden truth about astrology softwareAfter the shocking disappearance of the Olson time zone database … Robert Elz, an Australian computer scientist who has actively supported the tzinfo project throughout, has revived the time zone mailing list maintained at the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). 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