#infoAnarchy Chump Archives for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

SNOW KILLS
posted by seti at 2006-03-11 20:27

j_blogs: "Rare Burst of Snow"

Court upholds "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" student banner
posted by rik at 2006-03-11 17:06

rik: "An Alaska high school violated a student's free speech rights by suspending him after he unfurled a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" across the street from the school, a federal court ruled on Friday."
seti: Let's all take one for the team! GO TEAM!
seti: and by take I mean toke!
j_blogs: Wilco

The USS Harry S Truman. Made in Lego.
posted by rik at 2006-03-11 16:57

j_blogs: 50 extra points to the first lego J Edgar Hoover

Milosevic found dead in his cell
posted by seti at 2006-03-11 15:51

rik: \o/
seti: waiting anxiously for all conspiracy theorists to come out of the woordwork claiming that he was killed by the ICC

Towns draft resolutions for Bush impeachment - President's approval ratings hit all-time low
posted by coderman at 2006-03-11 11:25

coderman: "Many cities and towns across America have either drafted resolutions calling for the president's impeachment or are considering doing so. Not only that, but 11 candidates for the House of Representatives and three for the U.S. Senate are all running on the impeachment platform."
coderman: "Common reasons are cited for why people want the President gone: The war in Iraq, which they say Bush lied to get us into; warrantless eavesdropping, authorized by the president; the torturing of prisoners; and the president's response to Hurricane Katrina." -- hey, more than enough reasons!
seti: they're trying to score points, it's nothing of consequence. it's called Realpolitik.
seti: NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE RIGHT ALONG
j_blogs: Realpolitik?! Sounds like goldarned COMMUNISM!

A Tree-based Model of Unicast Stream Authentication
posted by coderman at 2006-03-11 10:32

coderman: "When proving the security of a message authentication scheme, the messages are considered to be atomic objects. Straightforward application of such schemes to some information resources may introduce security flaws. Gennaro and Rohatgi (Crypto '97) identified the streams of data as an important class of information resources that can not be considered to be message-like, and they proposed a solution to the problem of str

PIN Scandal "Worst Hack Ever;" Citibank Only The Start
posted by coderman at 2006-03-11 07:37

coderman: p0wn3d!!! LOLZ!!!
coderman: "But Citibank is only the tip of the iceberg, said Avivah Litan, a Gartner research vice president. The scam -- and scandal -- has hit national banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Washington Mutual, as well as smaller banks, including ones in Oregon, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, all of which have re-issued debit cards in recent weeks."
coderman: shit, i hope those smaller banks in oregon do not include ptcu
coderman: don't use a PIN-based debit card at point-of-sale," she recommended. "I never do."
coderman: that's a very good idea. use your debit card at an ATM and only at an ATM, where PIN handling is done properly (and you know so)
fridge: Worst. Hack. Ever.

Technology Profile Fact Sheet - NetTop
posted by coderman at 2006-03-11 07:29

coderman: licensed by trusted computer solutions and sold to NSA and others

2006 SELinux Developer Summit
posted by coderman at 2006-03-11 07:17

Shiba Inu
posted by Fawn at 2006-03-11 07:10

FBI Cites More Than 100 Possible Eavesdropping Violations
posted by coderman at 2006-03-11 07:08

coderman: oops!
coderman: we won't do it again. promise!
coderman: "The FBI reported more than 100 possible violations to an intelligence oversight board over the past two years, including cases in which agents tapped the wrong telephone, intercepted the wrong e-mails or continued to listen to conversations after a warrant had expired, according to a report issued yesterday.
coderman: "But Justice spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said the department is "pleased that the inspector general once again confirmed that there have been no substantiated civil liberties violations from the Patriot Act." - LOL, what the fuck? does it have to be > 10,000 violations to be "substantial" ???

Male activists want say in unplanned pregnancy
posted by Mutiny at 2006-03-11 02:23

Mutiny: "Roe says a woman can choose to have intimacy and still have control over subsequent consequences," he said. "No one has ever asked a federal court if that means men should have some similar say."

This picture is just begging to have a cock photoshopped into it.
posted by Mutiny at 2006-03-11 00:53

j_blogs: official confirmation that it's too easy to create and publish digital content
j_blogs: and still too difficult to photoshop cocks on