News

Time for some interesting news.

Windows Source Code Leaks Online: Wired and CNN.

[Wired] SEATTLE — Microsoft says incomplete portions of the source code for some versions of its Windows computer operating system were leaked over the Internet, but analysts caution it’s too early to say how much damage the leak may cause.

Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla said Thursday that some pieces of source code — the tightly guarded blueprint of its dominant computer operating system — for its Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 operating systems had been “illegally made available on the Internet.”

You can almost hear the sounds of thousands of people cheering.

Access to the source code could allow hackers to exploit the operating system and attack machines running some versions of Windows. Several versions of the operating system, including the ones containing leaked code, are used on hundreds of millions of computers worldwide.

I think some leaked codes won’t make Windows any less secured, seeing the state it’s already in.

Code changes ‘secure’ Pakistan warheads: Telegraph.

America has mounted a covert operation to safeguard Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and prevent warheads from falling under the control of rogue commanders or Islamist terrorists.

Teams of American specialists, deployed in Pakistan’s most sensitive military sites, have formulated launch codes to prevent the unauthorised use of nuclear missiles.

“Launch the nukes!”
“We can’t sir!”
“Oh noz! What a coincidence that the nukes fail to work right after the Americans helped us ‘secure’ them!”
Bush: “hehehehehehe”

Nanotech Weaponry: CRN.

Molecular manufacturing raises the possibility of horrifically effective weapons. As an example, the smallest insect is about 200 microns; this creates a plausible size estimate for a nanotech-built antipersonnel weapon capable of seeking and injecting toxin into unprotected humans. The human lethal dose of botulism toxin is about 100 nanograms, or about 1/100 the volume of the weapon. As many as 50 billion toxin-carrying devices—theoretically enough to kill every human on earth—could be packed into a single suitcase.

BEWARE OF SUSPICIOUS DUST PARTICLES!

The Zarqawi document translated to english: JPost.

The Zarqawi Document

This is the full text of a captured document released by US authorities in Baghdad. US officials have concluded that the document was written by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian suspected of close ties with al-Qaida and of involvement in terrorist attacks in Iraq.

The document was initially obtained by a Kurdish militia, which had captured a courier named Hassan Ghul, who confessed that he was taking the document from Ansar al-Islam, a group affiliated with al-Qaida that had been supported by Saddam Hussein, to al-Qaida operatives.

The existence of the document was first reported by Dexter Filkins of the New York Times on February 10. The document itself is undated.

Saul Singer
February 12, 2004

AAHAHAHAHAHA! What a funny piece of bullshit propaganda!

Oh yeah BTW, DOWNLOAD AND RUN SETI@HOME! Here. It is a distributed processing project spearheaded by “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” and sponsored by some heavy weights like Sun Microsystem, Paramount Pictures, (I guess they need real alien actors) IBM and Apple. (Microsoft is missing…) The SETI institution records and analysis datas from several radio telescopes in hope of finding signals from non-human sources. SETI@Home uses some of your computer’s processing powers to contribute to the enormous task of analysising these datas. That is to say REAL data from radio telescopes are being processed by your computer, and if one of them happens to be a scientific breakthrough…

You can set the program to either run constantly in the background or as a screensaver that runs only after a certain period of inactivity. Currently mine is analysising data recorded on 10.11.2003 20:01:14 GMT by the Arecibo Radio Observatory.