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The Pirate Bay goes to the museum

A server seized by the Swedish Police in a 2006 raid of The Pirate Bay’s premises has found a new home - The National Museum of Science and Technology, Sweden.

Read the museum’s press release translated by Google:

Read a press release translated by Google.

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Clueless tech support

* Customer: “The ethernet card you supplied doesn’t work under Linux.”
* Tech Support: “Have you installed the DOS drivers?”
* Customer: “I’m using Linux, so the DOS drivers won’t work.”
* Tech Support: “Why not?”

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$1BILLION mistake by a bank - literally

A woman from Gothenburg, Sweden logs into her internet bank to pay some bills only to find more than $1 BILLION (yes you read right) in her account - a local news website reports.

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INSECURE magazine (March ‘09) released

For those who don’t already know, the March 2009 edition of Insecure magazine has been released.
I found these articles interesting:

Building a bootable BackTrack 4 thumb drive with persistent changes and Nessus
A framework for quantitative privacy measurement
Why fail? Secure your virtual assets

As you might have guessed, these are the only articles I have read.

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Security 101

source: http://www.xkcd.com/

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Know the law so you don’t break it

In Alaska
It is against the law to look at a moose from an airplane
In Arizona
It is illegal to drive a car in reverse in Glendale
In Arkansas
It is illegal for a man to beat his wife more than once a month
In California
No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour
In Switzerland (not Sweden)
It is [...]

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The Great Debate: Security by Obscurity

A very interesting article by Jesper Johansson and Roger Grimes both of Microsoft. It challenges a commonly displayed attitude of pouring scorn on security by obscurity and concludes that
There are pros and cons to any scheme, and the right approach for one organization does not necessarily fit a different organization. In the end, this becomes [...]

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