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Iran to UN: Israel behind scientist's murder

Dudi Cohen
Ynet
Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:16 UTC
Iranian senior official demands UN's Human Rights Council investigate Daryoush Rezayeenejad's assassination.

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© UnknownRezayeenejad with his daughter
Iran has submitted a letter to the UN's Human Rights Council demanding an investigation into the assassination of Daryoush Rezayeenejad last week.

Javad Larijani, the secretary general of Iran's High Council of Human Rights, accused Israel and the West of assassinating an electrical engineering graduate student.

"The UN Security Council issues a resolution and makes a list of our scientists, then some terrorists who receive money from the CIA and the Mossad kill them. This is a very clear game and strong action should be taken about it," he said.
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Israel to U.N.: No unilateral Palestine


United Press International
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:39 UTC
Ron Prosor
© Ian JonesIsraeli Ambassador Ron Prosor
Israel's United Nations ambassador told the Security Council Tuesday the move for Palestinian statehood in September will not advance peace in the region.

At the monthly U.N. debate on the Middle East situation in New York, Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor turned to the Palestinian ambassador, Riyad Mansour, and asked: "On behalf of whom will you present a resolution in September? ... [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas or Hamas? Will it be on behalf of both the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas terrorist organization, which advances a charter calling for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews? Will it be on behalf of Akram Haniyeh the PA's chief spokesman or Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister in Gaza?" Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post reported.
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UK data watchdog 'looking into' Google+ mission creep

Kelly Fiveash
The Register
Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:14 UTC
Google + Profiles - pseudonyms = privacy headache?

Blighty's Information Commissioner's Office is currently "looking into" Google's recent ID verification rejig, The Register has learned.

A spokeswoman confirmed to us yesterday that no formal investigation is yet underway, but the ICO is nonetheless using official man-hours probing Mountain View's recent changes to its profiles and username sign-ups.

Google, in the meantime, has clarified its position on the Chocolate Factory's newly installed common name profiles policy that has been created to place its social network project, Google+, at centre stage within its online estate.

The company's product veep Bradley Horowitz responded to recent criticism levelled against Google's identity verification tweaks, which in the next few days will lead to the mass deletion of private profiles for the firm's products.

Meanwhile, the Google ID screws have been tightened elsewhere. For example, wannabe Gmail users are now required to insert their real names when creating an account.
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Hacking scandal starts to spread beyond News Corp

John Oates
The Register
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:12 UTC
Uneasy faces and sweaty palms all along Fleet Street

Trinity Mirror Group Plc - owner of the Daily Mirror, Daily Record and The People, is opening an internal investigation into ethics and editorial procedures.

The company, which also owns 160 regional papers, has struggled to move its papers online and has watched its share price drop from 571 pence in 2007 to 43 pence today.

A spokesman for the Mirror Group said: "We can confirm that we're conducting a review of editorial controls and procedures."

The group last conducted such a probe in 2004 in the wake of the Hutton Inquiry into the BBC and the death of David Kelly.
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Anonymous, Lulzsec, Manning and Stuxnet are up for the Pwnie award

Inquirer Staff
Inquirer
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:59 UTC
pwnies
© Pwnie Awards
Epic lulz expected at best awards evah

THE COMPUTER SECURITY INDUSTRY'S Pwnie Awards ceremony is a week away and the nominations are out. The notorious Lulzsec hacking outfit, the Anonymous hacktivist collective, the Stuxnet industrial sabotage worm and the alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning are all up for the 'Epic 0wnage' Pwnie award at Black Hat.

Anonymous was nominated for hacking into HBGary Federal and dumping the security firm's emails on the Internet. The widely publicised security breach became a PR disaster for both the federal contractor and its sister company HBGary, as the emails revealed potentially unethical behaviour and offensive cyber security dealings.

According to the Pwnie Awards organizers, Lulzsec is nominated for hacking virtually everyone, or better said, anyone. The group's 50-day stint left a whole bunch of electronics manufacturers, game developers, government agencies, media outlets, and other companies embarrassed and scrambling to secure their servers and online properties.
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Government breaks promise to delete DNA profiles of innocent people

Dan Worth
V3
Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:56 UTC
dnavis
© V3
The government appears to have backtracked on a pre-election promise to delete the DNA profiles of innocent people stored on police databases, in a move that has outraged civil liberties groups.

A letter sent by Home Office minister James Brokenshire to a committee of MPs considering legislation on DNA retention revealed that the profiles of innocent citizens will be retained, but anonymised and removed from the Police National Database.
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In 'Anonymous' Raids, Feds Work From List of Top 1,000 Protesters

Kevin Poulsen
Wired
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:51 UTC
anonzmask
© Wired
It turns out there's a method behind the FBI's raids of suspected Anonymous members around the country. The bureau is working from a list, provided by PayPal, of the 1,000 internet IP addresses responsible for the most protest traffic during Anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal last December.

FBI agents served 40 search warrants in January on people suspected of hosing down PayPal during "Operation Payback" - Anonymous' retaliatory attack against companies who blacklisted WikiLeaks. On July 19, the feds charged the first 14 defendants under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and raided an additional 35 suspects for evidence.
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Fingerprint scans learn to spot chopped-off fingers

Richard Chirgwin
The Register
Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:49 UTC
Also Gummi Bears, zombies, other common fakes

What do Gummi Bears and amputated fingers have in common? They've both been demonstrated as techniques for defeating fingerprint scanners. Now, a German company called Dermalog Identification Systems is using the way skin changes colour under pressure to block both the soft sweet and the dead hand of the zombie from accessing systems protected by fingerprint scans.

The problem is that if a scanner responds only to the image of the fingerprint, you don't need a living print to be accepted. An impression of a print on a Gummi Bear, or if you're of a more gruesome mindset, a finger removed from a user (either living or dead), can be scanned as a valid fingerprint.

However, if you've ever looked at what happens to skin if you put pressure on it, you'll know that it changes colour. Dermalog has tagged that colour change as the characteristic that can separate the living from the dead.
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Norway Shooting: How many did I murder? Gunman asks what toll was and talks of '60-year war'

Christian Gysin and Sam Greenhill
The Daily Mail, UK
Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:42 UTC
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© unknownNo empathy: Geir Lippestad, lawyer for Anders Breivik, said his client had taken strong drugs before allegedly embarking on a rampage that killed at least 76 people in Norway
  • He believes in war you can do things like that without guilt'
  • Breivik could be housed in the £150m Halden Prison - considered one of the most luxurious jails in the world
  • Police say it will take two more weeks to find all the bodies
Mass murderer Anders Breivik was forced to ask his lawyer how many innocents he killed because he took so many drugs during his one man killing spree, his lawyer revealed yesterday.

The Norwegian fanatic regards himself as a 'warrior', thinks he has started a '60-year war' and will be hailed as the 'saviour' of Western Europe in decades to come, said Geir Lippestad.

But before gunning down 76 people, he swallowed a cocktail of drugs known as an 'ECA stack' to make him 'strong and efficient' and rapidly lost count of the death toll.

It included ephedrine, a powerful stimulant sometimes used by athletes to improve performance, and caffeine and aspirin.

Breivik, who also listened to his iPod during the massacre, said the 'ephedrine rush' would increase his 'aggressiveness, physical performance and mental focus'.
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Best of the Web: I Do Not Want Mercy, I Want You To Join Me

Tim DeChristopher
CommonDreams.org
Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:00 UTC
Tim DeChristopher
© Portrait by Robert Shetterly"… those who write the rules are those who profit from the status quo. If we want to change that status quo, we might have to work outside of those rules because the legal pathways available to us have been structured precisely to make sure we don’t make any substantial change."
Tim DeChristopher, who was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine for disrupting a Bureau of Land Management auction in 2008, had an opportunity to address the court and the judge immediately before his sentence was announced. This is his statement:

Thank you for the opportunity to speak before the court. When I first met Mr. Manross, the sentencing officer who prepared the presentence report, he explained that it was essentially his job to "get to know me." He said he had to get to know who I really was and why I did what I did in order to decide what kind of sentence was appropriate. I was struck by the fact that he was the first person in this courthouse to call me by my first name, or even really look me in the eye. I appreciate this opportunity to speak openly to you for the first time. I'm not here asking for your mercy, but I am here asking that you know me.

Mr. Huber has leveled a lot of character attacks at me, many of which are contrary to Mr. Manross's report. While reading Mr Huber's critiques of my character and my integrity, as well as his assumptions about my motivations, I was reminded that Mr Huber and I have never had a conversation. Over the two and half years of this prosecution, he has never asked my any of the questions that he makes assumptions about in the government's report. Apparently, Mr. Huber has never considered it his job to get to know me, and yet he is quite willing to disregard the opinions of the one person who does see that as his job.
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