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Anonymous Hack Brings Security Firm To Its Knees

The hacktivist group Anonymous is at it again. This time, they've humiliated a internet security firm that threatened to out their hierarchy.

If you remember, Anonymous has been in the news, first, because in support of WikiLeaks, they undertook cyber attacks that brought down the websites of Visa and Mastercard. Second, because they brought down the sites of some government entities in Egypt and helped the anti-government protesters with technical help. Third, because as NPR's Martin Kaste reported, the FBI is hot on their heels.

Today, the website ArsTechnica ran a piece that details how Anonymous methodically went after HBGary Federal's digital infrastructure. Earlier this month, HBGary Federal's CEO Aaron Barr said the company, which specializes in analyzing vulnerabilities in computer security for companies and even some government agencies, had undertaken an investigation of Anonymous and had used social media to unmask the group's most important people.

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TECHNOLOGY
House Passes Amendment to Block Funds for Net Neutrality Order
By Juliana Gruenwald
Thursday, February 17, 2011 | 6:48 p.m.

The House passed an amendment Thursday that would bar the Federal Communications Commission from using any funding to implement the network-neutrality order it approved in December.
The amendment, approved on a 244-181 vote, was offered by Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., to legislation that would fund government agencies for the rest of fiscal year 2011.
Walden and other critics of the FCC's net-neutrality order argue it will stifle innovation and investment in broadband. The order aims to bar broadband providers from discriminating against Internet content, services, or applications.
"If left unchallenged, this claim of authority would allow the FCC to regulate any matter it discussed in the national broadband plan," Walden said.
If the defunding effort fails, Republicans are pursuing a second route to try to block the FCC's open-Internet order. Walden and other Republicans in both the House and the Senate introduced on Wednesday a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, which would give lawmakers a limited amount of time to try to block the FCC's net-neutrality rules.
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., a senior Energy and Commerce member, argued that by voting for the amendment, "you give control to the Broadband Barons ... and then you will see an inevitable decline in innovation, in investment, in the private sector, in the new products, the new technology, the new applications, these new devices, which are basically invented by hundreds and thousands of smaller companies in our country."
President Obama, who supports the FCC's net neutrality order, has threatened to veto the spending measure if it cuts government programs too deeply.

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those corporate deserves this aso kind of ironic that a firm who speialized in preventing attacks gets attack

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I think he had an aneurysm while typing that

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Or a migraine...

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Man shot dead for eating popcorn too loudly during Black Swan

A man was shot dead at a Latvian cinema after eating his popcorn too loudly during a screen of Black Swan, according to reports.

Police said they had arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of shooting a 42-year-old fellow audience member who later died of his wounds.

The conflict took place as the credits rolled during a screen of the Oscar-nominated film "Black Swan", according to police in the Baltic state.

Witnesses told the Latvian news agency Leta that it arose over how loudly the deceased man was eating his popcorn.

Gun-crime is relatively rare in Latvia, a European Union nation of 2.2 million.

The shooting occurred on Saturday evening in the central multiplex cinema in the Latvian capital, Riga, at the end of the psychological thriller about a ballet dancer who loses her mind succumbing to pressure to perform

[skywalker]

4 American Hostages killed by Pirates
I hope this wasn't a rescue attempt gone wrong. I'm sure some more details will filter out, although you never know if it is BS or truth.
Also 2 pirates killed and 13 more captured. As sad as it is, hopefully they are learning not fuck with American ships.

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But, sailing around the horn of Africa, handing out bibles sounded like a GREAT idea!!

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Report: Teacher made kids beat student
Teacher is still employed at the school

Updated: Wednesday, 23 Feb 2011, 8:05 AM MST
Published : Wednesday, 23 Feb 2011, 7:57 AM MST

* Reporter: Alex Tomlin

MORA COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) - A mother claims boys in her son's kindergarten class beat him up, and that the teacher told them to do it.

Rolinda Dunmire rushed to pick up her son, Amos, from his class on Friday, Feb. 18, after his teacher called and said the boy was acting up. When she got to the school, her son was crying.

"[The teacher] approached me and said that my son had hit another kid and, to punish him, she had all the boys in the class beat him up," said Dunmire.

Dunmire claims the teacher had eight other boys line up and start swinging.

Mora Independent School's Superintendent Thomas Garcia said the district was aware that something happened and is doing a full investigation, but the teacher remains in the classroom.

Garcia said since there is no claim the teacher actually made physical contact with the boy, there is no reason to pull her out.


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I don't know where to stand on this. On one hand if a teacher arranged a mass beating for my child, I'd like to be pissed. On the other hand though, if the kid deserved it because he was being a bully, I say good on the teacher. I think more kids should learn social responsibility.

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Any teacher who decides my kid deserves a beating is going to get one from me. It's the teacher's responsibility to inform me what's going on with my kid, and mine to correct the behavior. If I should fail at correcting the behavior, then it's my ass who needs correcting.