Saturday, 28 June - Politehnica 1921 Stiinta Timisoara

My favorite soccer team Politehnica 1921 Stiinta Timisoara will go in cantonment to Kaprun (Austria).
This is the Team:

GoalKeeper:
Pedro Taborda, Costel Pantilimon si Cristian Zimmermann

Defender:
Stelian Stancu, Valentin Badoi, Milos Brezinsky, Alin Ratiu, Srdjan Luchin, Sreten Sretenovic, Carlos Milhazes, Iasmin Latovlevici

Midfield:
Agunbiade Abiodun, Dan Alexa, Filipe Da Costa, Jose Luis Garcia, Balazs Borbely, Dare Vrsic, Victor Aldana, Artiom Karamyan, Arman Karamyan

Forward:
Dorin Goga, Ionel Ganea, Dejan Rusic, Gigel Bucur, Lukas Magera, Winston Parks

The World is safe again

Yes we can rest assured the music company's have now an precedent and they will be more successful in arresting and convicting innocent people.

Another ex-administrator of former BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents is facing prison time for his part in the site's peer-to-peer sharing of copyright material.

Daniel Dove, 26, was convicted by a jury on separate counts of "conspiracy and felony copyright infringement," the US Department of Justice announced today.

Dove helped supply pirated material to the website and recruited members who had high speed internet connections to join in uploading content.

Fellow admins, Scott McCausland, Grant Stanley, Sam Kuonen, and Scott Harvanek, all pleaded guilty to similar charges rather than take their cases to a jury. The DOJ says its the first criminal conviction after a jury trial for P2P copyright infringement.

EliteTorrents was one of the largest "private" trackers in operation between 2003 and 2005. In May, 2005, Operation D-Elite, a combined force of the FBI CyberCrime Fraud Unit and Homeland Security, shut down the site. The Motion Picture Association of America also provided "substantial assistance" to the D-Elite investigation.

Working on 10 search warrants, The Feds seized control of the EliteTorrents' central server to obtain information about the site's administrators. According to the DOJ, they found more than 17,800 movie titles being seeded by about 133,000 EliteTorrents members. They contend many of the movies distributed on the site, such as Star Wars Episode III, appeared there before the movies were yet released in theaters. (Star Wars II: Revenge of the Sith appears again and again on DOJ press release for Operation D-Elite as an example. Somebody is a George Lucas fan.)

Dove's sentencing is scheduled for September 9, 2008. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.

4.5 Million unencrypted customer records lost

How can you lose 4.5 Million unencrypted customer records?

Well at least we know you can, this has bean proven by the Bank of New York. They lost two sets of unencrypted backup tapes containing private data belonging to 4.5 million customers.
They have the nerves to come with the excuse that a third-party vendor misplaced the tapes during transport to off-site locations. According to the bank, the tapes “included shareowner and plan participant account information, such as name, mailing address, Social Security number, and transaction activity.”

Isn't that nice to know how the banks play with such private information?

BNY Mellon’s chief risk officer, Todd Gibbons, said the bank now plans to improve security related to backup tapes. From Computerworld:

To bolster its security controls, the bank said it will now require that any confidential data written on tapes or CDs for transport must be encrypted or transported with undisclosed additional data protections. Further, when “technically feasible,” the bank will demand that encrypted confidential data be delivered to off-site facilities electronically, noted Gibbons. ...cute isnt it?

Now they are thinking about that, cause till now we where still in the 1900 years and subjects such as SECURITY where not discussed in every newspaper/TV show/Movie/Internet

The funny part is that they are saying nothing about if they found the lost data or if they at least have a clue about where the tapes could be ... because from February the 27th, 2008 and till now they sad nothing to the customers and also didnt came up with the tapes... maybe the tapes are in nirvana now.

Torrenting

Will torrenting be extinct in the next few years?
hard to believe something like that... why? because its supported by the people ;)

The POWER OF THE PEOPLE

Since BitTorrent has become so popular, anti-piracy organizations like MediaDefender and BayTSP are constantly uploading fake files, and scammers are uploading malware and spyware, often wrapped in fake media players.

When an attack happened over the weekend at the popular webshow site Revision3 , they started to wonder what they had to done provoke it. Now Rev3 has found the source of the attack, and that's raising even more questions. Rev3 was hit by MediaDefender, the self-described "leading provider of anti-piracy solutions in the emerging Internet-Piracy-Prevention industry." ... wow, but it was only an accident

Rev3 talked to MediaDefender and discovered that the anti-piracy company had been covertly using the Rev3 BitTorrent tracker to move its own files, quite without the knowledge of Revision3. The attack
happened when Rev3 caught on and blocked MediaDefender's torrent traffic. This apparently caused the MediaDefender servers to go completely nuts with attempts to reconnect -- over 8,000 a second -- and took down the entire Revision3 infrastructure, including the servers for all their video content, their advertising, and their internal email.

What can you say about that? the oh so morals are not that moral anymore.

The Pirate Bay, Mininova and isoHunt - the top three BitTorrent sites - are all involved in a court case. Depending on the outcome of these cases, the need for alternative search technologies may become more apparent.

And still even if they will be put down others will rise because the people demand is big and will still exist. And by trying to bring the bittorrent community down by force they are only making it stronger and bigger... this is for sure the wrong approach of the problem ;)