Tag: technology

Boooo Sony amends usage terms, disallows reselling PS4 games

Sony amends usage terms, disallows reselling PS4 games
http://www.osnews.com/comments/27415

…..Sony, June this year:
“PlayStation 4 won’t impose any new restrictions on used games. This is a good thing,” said Tretton, to huge applause from the audience in attendance. “When a gamer buys a PS4 disc, they have the rights to that copy of the game.”
…. Sony’s Software Usage Terms, updated today:
6.3. You must not lease, rent, sublicense, publish, modify, adapt, or translate any portion of the Software.
7.1. You must not resell either Disc-based Software or Software Downloads, unless expressly authorized by us and, if the publisher is another company, additionally by the publisher.
….Liars. Similar language has been found on the boxes of previous PlayStation models, but that’s hardly a comfort.

Seattle Police snooping with Aruba Networks mesh WiFi system

Seattle Police have deployed a Aruba Networks mesh WiFi system. What’s interesting is it may well be snorting MAC addresses from every passing device; Aruba advertises that feature.
And when asked:
The SPD declined to answer more than a dozen questions
from The Stranger, including whether the network is
operational, who has access to its data, what it might
be used for, and whether the SPD has used it (or intends
to use it) to geo-locate people’s devices via their MAC
addresses or other identifiers.
Seattle Police detective Monty Moss, one of the
leaders of the mesh-network project—one part of
a $2.7 million effort, paid for by the Department
of Homeland Security—wrote in an e-mail that the
department “is not comfortable answering policy
questions when we do not yet have a policy.”
But that didn’t stop them from deploying it without one.
“Sentence First, Verdict Later” comes to mind.
Aruba also sells a software product called “Analytics
and Location Engine 1.0.” According to a document Aruba
has created about the product, ALE “calculates the location
of associated and unassociated wifi devices… even though
a device has not associated to the network, information
about it is available. This includes the MAC address,
location, and RSSI information.”
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/you-are-a-rogue-device/Content?oid=18143845

Security hole found in Obamacare website

Security hole found in Obamacare website

By Jose Pagliery CNN Money October 29, 2013  The Obamacare website has more than annoying bugs. A cybersecurity expert  found a way to hack into users’ accounts.  Until the Department of Health fixed the security hole last week, anyone  could easily reset your Healthcare.gov password without your knowledge and  potentially hijack your account.  The glitch was discovered last week by Ben Simo, a software tester in  Arizona. Simo found that gaining access to people’s accounts was  frighteningly simple.
You could have:
* guessed an existing user name, and the website would have confirmed it   exists.
* claimed you forgot your password, and the site would have reset it.
viewed the site’s unencrypted source code in any browser to find the   password reset code.
* plugged in the user name and reset code, and the website would have  displayed a person’s three security questions (your oldest niece’s first  name, name of favorite pet, date of wedding anniversary, etc.).
* answered the security questions wrong, and the website would have spit out the account owner’s email address — again, unencrypted.
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http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/29/technology/obamacare-security/index.html

SafeSlinger claims Phone Privacy

CMU Researchers Claim To Have Created Messaging App Even NSA Can’t Crack

The app is called SafeSlinger, and is free on the iTunes store, and Google play store for Android phones. SafeSlinger’s easy-to-use interface brings cryptography and secure communication to non-expert users, but also achieving military-grade security against hackers.
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