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FOSS Force on FacebookThe Internet is a series of locks waiting to be picked. FREAK: Another day, another serious SSL security hole | ZDNet zdnet.com More than one third of encrypted Websites are open to attack via the FREAK security hole. The Cat That Has Linux’s Tongue fossforce.com/?p=1033380 The Cat That Has Linux's Tongue fossforce.com Can you hear me now? The question, if it's presented with early 21st century pop culture in mind, is rhetorical. If you are relying on text to speech (TTS) applications in Linux, then it's not…and t... An $89 Computer With Ubuntu Preinstalled fossforce.com/?p=973678 An $89 Computer With Ubuntu Preinstalled fossforce.com There's a new player in the preinstalled Linux world offering computers with with Ubuntu preinstalled for $89, and although this price might suggest bottom of the line specs, the machines are more tha... |
Who would’ve thought it possible that digital rights management (DRM) would come to the coffee business? Well, it has. Believe it or not, Keurig now includes DRM on their coffee makers. Why? To keep users from using anything but Keurig coffee pods on their machines, of course. You know, just like the DRM used by some printer manufacturers to keep you coming back (and coming back) for their branded replacement ink cartridges instead of opting […] Continue reading Keurig Delivers DRM in a Cup 
Folks who follow news about FOSS, OSS and Linux who also watch the “talking heads” shows the TV networks serve up on Sunday mornings might be excused for not noting that David Boies, the lawyer speaking for Sony on this week’s “Meet the Press,” has on several occasions been involved in news stories affecting Linux. Over the years, he’s played the role of both friend and foe, but it’s been a while since his and […] Continue reading Old FOSS Friend & Foe Represents Sony in Hack Hacking, hacking, everywhere hacking. And not the good kind either. We’re talking cracking hacking. Take the Sony hack for instance. Bunches of movies set for Christmas release are now available online for free, for those willing to break the law and invoke the displeasure of the MPAA while firing up the ol’ BitTorrent. Worse than that: even more bunches of Sony employees have had their financial lives turned upside down, with all of their personal […] Continue reading Sony & North Korea: Dumb & Dumber 
In “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” Winston Smith’s job was to rewrite the past for the Inner Party. Mainly, he made people vanish from the pages of history. Anyone who came under the party’s bad graces suddenly disappeared from all media; from all newspaper articles, books, television archives and any other mentions. In Orwell’s world, anyone declared a nonperson was completely erased. S/he never existed. According to memos leaked from the recent hack on Sony, the big studios […] Continue reading MPAA Wants to Use DMCA to Effectively Bring Back SOPA 
FOSS Week in Review It’s raining, finally, in California. After a couple of years of painfully dry weather, we’re getting the kind of rain that causes animals to march two-by-two into a large wooden boat. One might think this would be cause for a damp and sullen report to end the week, but actually that’s not the case, because… The reviews are in: The tech media has given multiple thumbs-up to the new release of […] Continue reading Fedora 21 Raves & DRM Happiness |
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