Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Starting tomorrow December 31st 2006, reading a DVD protected with CSS (as most DVD are) is illegal in France when it is done with a software allowing to circumvent the protection, such as VLC or mplayer which can both use the libdvdcss library. Today’s Journal Officiel (where laws and executive orders are published) says that […]

It looks like the German police has recently seized some servers running the TOR anonymity program because the TOR network seems to have been used to anonymously access child pornography. While of course nobody can publicly stand up against such an action, these seizures may sever the privacy of server owners.

A perverse hacker friend of mine has written a clever yet scaring Windows utility. Each time a USB key is inserted into his computer, the whole content of the key is silently dumped and stored on the machine. It doesn’t copy the existing files; it makes an image of the key.
After that, when the unsuspecting […]