The Little Hacker's Room

wiedzmin writes "This month, officials from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), armed with fingerprinting machines, iris scanners and cameras hooked to laptops, will fan out across the towns and villages of southern Andhra Pradesh state in the first phase of the project whose aim is to give every Indian a lifelong Unique ID (UID) number for 'anytime, anywhere' biometric authentication. While enrolling with the UIDAI may be voluntary, other agencies and service providers might require a UID number in order to transact business. Usha Ramanathan, a prominent legal expert who is attached to the Center for the Study of Developing Societies in the national capital, said that, 'taken to its logical limit, the UID project will make it impossible, in a couple of years, for an ordinary citizen to undertake a simple task such as traveling within the country without a UID number.' Next step, tying that UID number and biometric information to to their RIM BlackBerry PIN number."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F0024239%2FBiometric-IDs-For-Every-Indian-Citizen" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Biometric+IDs+For+Every+Indian+Citizen%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fd1bEnV" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/0024239/Biometric-IDs-For-Every-Indian-Citizen?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1781384amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d985bf5/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/S5n65N_gnyBGc1NvTnJ0CBskoBw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/S5n65N_gnyBGc1NvTnJ0CBskoBw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/S5n65N_gnyBGc1NvTnJ0CBskoBw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/S5n65N_gnyBGc1NvTnJ0CBskoBw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/R8XYh_bGQRs" height="1" width="1"/

From the Orlando Sentinel: A “suspicious” toy pony was blown up after it was found abandoned in the middle of a cul-de-sac near an Orange County elementary school this morning.

The FurReal pony, an expensive, life-like toy, was investigated as a possible explosive device after someone called Orange County deputies to report it. A robot inspected the toy before a pack of explosives was placed near the stuffed animal and detonated. For some reason Orlando and Cincinnati are mother lodes of wonderful stories.

(Via Cynical-C)

(Video link) Well-made mashup of The Matrix and The Big Lebowski. (Via Blame it on the Voices)

Major General Antonio Taguba, the former army officer who conducted the Abu Ghraib inquiry, confirms that rape and sexual abuse are documented in the photographs that US president Barack Obama has ordered censored. From the Daily Telegraph: At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.

Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.

Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts. One of those incidents reportedly involved a 15-year-old male victim.

Maj Gen Taguba retired in January 2007, and supports the President's decision to ban the images:

These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency. I am not sure what purpose their release would serve other than a legal one and the consequence would be to imperil our troops, the only protectors of our foreign policy, when we most need them, and British troops who are trying to build security in Afghanistan. The mere description of these pictures is horrendous enough, take my word for it. Full story here.

(via Declan McCullagh).

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coondoggie writes "Talk about finding a needle in a cosmic haystack. Scientists this week said they found microscopic shrapnel in a meteorite of a star they say exploded around the birth of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F1624210%2FSupernova-Shrapnel-Found-In-Meteorite" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Supernova+Shrapnel+Found+In+Meteorite%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbM7jpq" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/1624210/Supernova-Shrapnel-Found-In-Meteorite?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1782216amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d98325d/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jNAsDIB8dGUv3TVNs4Mt4Ek4kBA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jNAsDIB8dGUv3TVNs4Mt4Ek4kBA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jNAsDIB8dGUv3TVNs4Mt4Ek4kBA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jNAsDIB8dGUv3TVNs4Mt4Ek4kBA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/L21GlYvkbfA" height="1" width="1"/

The government of China plans to require that anyone buying a mobile device first register their personal details. China isn't the first: many European and Asian countries already have similar measures in place to prevent anonymous use of cellphones and mobile data devices.

Twelve US soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" reported to have blown up and shot Afghan civilians selected at random. The soldiers allegedly collected their victims' fingers as trophies. (thanks, Antinous)

wiredmikey writes "In a recent investigation, it was discovered that cybercriminals are creating 57,000 new 'fake' websites each week looking to imitate and exploit approximately 375 high-profile brands. eBay and Western Union were the most targeted brands, making up 44 percent of exploited brands discovered. Visa, Amazon, Bank of America and PayPal also heavily targeted by cybercriminals. Banks comprise the majority of fake websites by far with 65 percent of the total. Online stores and auction sites came in at 27 percent, with eBay taking the spot as the No. 1 most targeted brand on the Web today."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F153222%2FCybercriminals-Create-57000-Fake-Sites-Each-Week" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Cybercriminals+Create+57%2C000+Fake+Sites+Each+Week%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fbup3ku" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/153222/Cybercriminals-Create-57000-Fake-Sites-Each-Week?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1782106amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d979202/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-TrWIeBXwDgTuESgwuv0PtxZtH4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-TrWIeBXwDgTuESgwuv0PtxZtH4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-TrWIeBXwDgTuESgwuv0PtxZtH4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-TrWIeBXwDgTuESgwuv0PtxZtH4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/INSKPpOkSRY" height="1" width="1"/

Folks who live on Lustful Court in Macon, Georgia are lobbying for their street to be granted a name change. The county commissioners have suggested that the residents submit a petition. Yoshonda Patterson told the Associated Press "she thinks the name gives people the wrong idea about the neighborhood on the east side of Macon."

Also in the news this week, the UK's Bladder Lane and Butt Hole Road. And then there's the classic unfortunate street name used in England in the Middle Ages -- Gropecunt Lane -- "believed to be a reference to the prostitution centered on those areas," according to Wikipedia.

FSF has issued a href=http://www.fsf.org/news/oracle-v-googlea statement/a about Oracle's patent infringement lawsuit against Google over Android. While Google could have avoided all this by using the GPL'd IcedTea and they have yet to take a stand against software patents, still nothing, FSF writes, can excuse Oracle's patent aggression. Oracle is wrong to use its patents to attack Android, FSF concludes. P They have a number of suggestions on how they think you can help, including searching for prior art. The result of all this, unless Oracle changes course, will be, FSF points out, that everyone will dump Java:blockquote Programmers will justifiably steer clear of Java when they stand to be sued if they use it in some way that Oracle doesn't like. One of the great benefits of free software is that it allows programs to be combined in ways that none of the original developers would've anticipated, to create something new and exciting. Oracle is signaling to the world that they intend to limit everyone's ability to do this with Java, and that's unjustifiable./blockquote If you have prior art, you can place it here or on the a href=http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Oracle_v._Google_(2010,_USA)End Software Patents wiki/a, as they suggest, or both.

An anonymous reader pointed us to an article talking about Google TV and AppleTV challenging the major networks and taking their place in your living room. It'll be a tough battle, amusingly waged on cable company wires in many major markets.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F1341217%2FGoogleTV-AppleTV-and-the-Battle-For-The-Living-Room" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=GoogleTV%2C+AppleTV+and+the+Battle+For+The+Living+Room%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaH2W3c" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/1341217/GoogleTV-AppleTV-and-the-Battle-For-The-Living-Room?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1782018amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d96d0e9/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yyG-9p-F0bAu868VXm95Yo2MMTE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yyG-9p-F0bAu868VXm95Yo2MMTE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yyG-9p-F0bAu868VXm95Yo2MMTE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yyG-9p-F0bAu868VXm95Yo2MMTE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/DmGRk3Ni1w0" height="1" width="1"/

Tootech writes "In a case of "physician, heal thyself," the agency mdash; which forms the operational arm of DHS's National Cyber Security Division, or NCSD mdash; failed to keep its own systems up to date with the latest software patches. Auditors working for the DHS inspector general ran a sweep of US-CERT using the vulnerability scanner Nessus and turned up 1,085 instances of 202 high-risk security holes. "The majority of the high-risk vulnerabilities involved application and operating system and security software patches that had not been deployed on computer systems located in Virginia," reads the report from assistant inspector general Frank Deffer."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F136204%2FDHS-CyberSecurity-Misses-1085-Holes-On-Own-Network" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=DHS+CyberSecurity+Misses+1085+Holes+On+Own+Network%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F8Y37R1" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/136204/DHS-CyberSecurity-Misses-1085-Holes-On-Own-Network?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1781978amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d965475/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DEph0Mwg0kASHf1VsRC0Yq9Qkgo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DEph0Mwg0kASHf1VsRC0Yq9Qkgo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DEph0Mwg0kASHf1VsRC0Yq9Qkgo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DEph0Mwg0kASHf1VsRC0Yq9Qkgo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/OK3PNBN05mw" height="1" width="1"/

theodp writes "In response to a complaint, Rackspace has shut down the websites of the Dove World Outreach Center, a small 50-member church which has received national and international criticism for a planned book burning of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The center 'violated the hate-speech provision of our acceptable-use policy,' explained Rackspace spokesman Dan Goodgame. 'This is not a constitutional issue. This is a contract issue,' said Goodgame, who added he did not know how long it had hosted the church's sites. Not quite the same thing, but would Kurt Westergaard's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad also violate Rackspace's AUP? How about Christopher Hitchens' Slate articles? Could articles from one-time Rackspace poster child The Onion pass muster?"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F1228231%2FRackspace-Shuts-Down-Quran-Burning-Churchs-Sites" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Rackspace+Shuts+Down+Quran-Burning+Church's+Sites%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9mXH8n" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/1228231/Rackspace-Shuts-Down-Quran-Burning-Churchs-Sites?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1781942amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d95e0b9/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3Mw93zTmiAxqs-XEuEMUxWmB2SU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3Mw93zTmiAxqs-XEuEMUxWmB2SU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3Mw93zTmiAxqs-XEuEMUxWmB2SU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3Mw93zTmiAxqs-XEuEMUxWmB2SU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/BCa_DXoV1qk" height="1" width="1"/

mspohr writes "Just hours after Apple released iOS 4.1 to great fanfare, hardware hackers found a way to jailbreak devices that run the new operating system. More surprising still, there doesn't appear to be anything Steve Jobs can do to stop them in the near future. The exploit in the boot ROM of iOS devices was first announced by iPhone Dev-Team member pod2g. It was soon confirmed by other hackers, who said that because the exploit targets such a low-level part of the operating system, Apple won't be able to stop jailbreakers without making significant hardware changes."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F036201%2FIOS-41-Jailbroken-Already" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=IOS+4.1+Jailbroken+Already%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F93EArD" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/036201/IOS-41-Jailbroken-Already?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1781478amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d958ae7/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Gwm1bm1gI1rJjt5U1xRtmGYu0aA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Gwm1bm1gI1rJjt5U1xRtmGYu0aA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Gwm1bm1gI1rJjt5U1xRtmGYu0aA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Gwm1bm1gI1rJjt5U1xRtmGYu0aA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ztsCKl7kZBE" height="1" width="1"/

bonch writes "A new study on Greenland's and West Antarctica's rate of ice loss halves the estimate of ice loss. Published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the study takes into account a rebounding of the Earth's crust called glacial isostatic adjustment, a continuing rise of the crust after being smashed under the weight of the Ice Age. 'We have concluded that the Greenland and West Antarctica ice caps are melting at approximately half the speed originally predicted,' said researcher Bert Vermeeersen."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F039223%2FScientists-Cut-Greenland-Ice-Loss-Estimate-By-Half" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Scientists+Cut+Greenland+Ice+Loss+Estimate+By+Half%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbKHfby" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/039223/Scientists-Cut-Greenland-Ice-Loss-Estimate-By-Half?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1781480amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d93ae96/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8Nz7v8SOLciFnt7c9BVR-cWvnMQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8Nz7v8SOLciFnt7c9BVR-cWvnMQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8Nz7v8SOLciFnt7c9BVR-cWvnMQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8Nz7v8SOLciFnt7c9BVR-cWvnMQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/SDLlMWtCs-4" height="1" width="1"/

coondoggie writes "This month the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will begin looking for technology that will let wireless communications work through the most extreme interference. From the article: 'The CommEx program will assess next generation and beyond jamming threats and then develop advanced interference suppression and avoidance technologies to successfully communicate in the presence of severe, traditional, and novel types of interference that are orders-of-magnitude more severe than what are currently addressed by the most advanced systems, DARPA stated.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F032206%2FDARPA-Wants-Extreme-Wireless-Interference-Buster" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=DARPA+Wants+Extreme+Wireless+Interference+Buster%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbtlcKU" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/032206/DARPA-Wants-Extreme-Wireless-Interference-Buster?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1781474amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d92a021/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VrXpIDKhCne9miruFqlB4_OKP9A/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VrXpIDKhCne9miruFqlB4_OKP9A/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VrXpIDKhCne9miruFqlB4_OKP9A/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VrXpIDKhCne9miruFqlB4_OKP9A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/RaLDEBkVYeg" height="1" width="1"/

thelostagency writes "Girish Kumar, managing director of Aiplex Software says his company is being hired by the film industry to attack online pirates. He says if a provider did not do anything to remove the link or content hosted on its site, his company would launch what is known as a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the offending computer server. From the article: 'Kumar said that at the moment most of the payment for his company's services came from the film industry in India. "We are tied up with more than 30 companies in Bollywood. They are the major production houses." As for Hollywood films, he said they, too, used his services.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F0047234%2FFilm-Industry-Hires-Cyber-Hitmen-To-Take-Down-Pirates" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Film+Industry+Hires+Cyber+Hitmen+To+Take+Down+Pirates%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fc0C5pi" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/0047234/Film-Industry-Hires-Cyber-Hitmen-To-Take-Down-Pirates?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1781392amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d917396/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MFYZ-25qgt0hha9Ye1M4A4GxloE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MFYZ-25qgt0hha9Ye1M4A4GxloE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MFYZ-25qgt0hha9Ye1M4A4GxloE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MFYZ-25qgt0hha9Ye1M4A4GxloE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/WUZLIl76j0o" height="1" width="1"/