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Dead Space is Now Available in EA Access (and Games With Gold)

April 1, 2016 5:29, by FGR* Blog


Dead Space is now on EA Access as well as being free via Xbox’s Games With Gold.


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Open Source

April 1, 2016 4:35, by FGR* Blog



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Questa breve introduzione si propone di contribuire alla diffusione del Software Open Source presentando, in modo semplice e fruibile da tutti, esempi di sistemi operativi e di software applicativi di larga diffusione. Partendo dai vantaggi di carattere economico riscontrabili dall’utilizzo nella P.A. e nel privato, si accompagna, poi, il lettore alla prova, alla scelta ed alla installazione del Sistema Operativo facendo uso delle modalità “live” e delle macchine virtuali.



Reddit Hints—Without Saying Anything—That It Got a National Security Letter

April 1, 2016 3:11, by FGR* Blog

In the ongoing tug-of-war between secrecy and transparency over government surveillance, the side of transparency may have scored a slight victory today when Reddit appeared to disclose that it had received a secret order seeking information about one or more of its users.

The company didn’t say outright that it had received an order; instead it appeared to imply this in something it didn’t say.

Today Reddit released its annual transparency report, which lists the number and types of government requests it received in 2015, both requests for user information and requests to take down content from its user forums. But conspicuously absent from that report is any mention of the number of national security requests it received.

In Reddit’s transparency report for 2014, it indicated in a section titled “national security requests” that it had received no National Security Letter during that year, or any order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

“As of January 29, 2015, reddit has never received a National Security Letter, an order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or any other classified request for user information.” The company also noted in the last sentence of that section, “If we ever receive such a request, we would seek to let the public know it existed.”

Now, in Reddit’s transparency report for 2015, that entire section is missing.

How NSLs Work

National security letters are written demands from the FBI that compel internet service providers, credit companies, financial institutions, and others to hand over confidential records about their customers, such as subscriber information, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, websites visited, and more. NSLs have been used since the 1980s, but the Patriot Act expanded the kinds of records that could be obtained with them. They do not require court approval, and, most importantly, they come with a built-in gag order that prevents the recipient from disclosing that they have received an order. This makes the government’s use of them ripe for abuse; and indeed DoJ inspector general reports have uncovered abuses of the FBI’s NSL authority.

The letters are one of the FBI’s most powerful tools; but there is little oversight of them and they are rarely discussed inside or outside Congress. The public has become aware of only a handful of some 300,000 NSLs handed out over the last decade, and those became public only after the recipients launched legal battles opposing them. Although recipients of an NSL can challenge them in court, few companies that received one have done so.

In the face of gag orders, many companies have devised a method, called a “warrant canary,” to notify the public that they’ve received an NSL or FISA Court order without actually stating so—they do this by including a statement in their annual transparency report that asserts they have not received any such order for that year. As long as that “canary” keeps singing, meaning that it keeps appearing in a company’s annual transparency report, the public can safely assume this to be true. But once the “canary” falls silent in a transparency report, it’s a sign that the government likely served the company with a national security order during the period since their last transparency report.

Although gag orders can prohibit the company from saying in the positive that they received an NSL, the government can’t force a company to lie, says Kurt Opsahl, deputy executive director and general counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which the company would be doing if it continued to publish a statement in reports saying it hasn’t received an NSL when in fact it has received one. The concept of warrant canaries hasn’t been fully tested in court, however, and companies could find themselves in trouble if the government decided to challenge them. Reddit is the first company Opsahl is aware of that has “killed” its canary, if that indeed turns out to be the case. But he doesn’t think Reddit is on shaky ground if it did indeed tell the public, in killing its canary, that it received a national security letter.

“The question is whether the government could require you to continue to [state you haven’t received an NSL] when that’s not true,” he says. “I would certainly argue that they cannot compel someone to lie.”

As for whether the government could go after Reddit for violating the spirit of the law?

“You can’t get thrown in jail for violating the spirit of the law,” says Kevin Bankston, director of New America’s Open Technology Institute.

Companies Push Back—Or Try To

Reddit didn’t respond to WIRED’s request for comment. But in a discussion thread on the site today, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, who uses the Reddit handle “spez,” discussed the issue of the warrant canary and the difficulty of not being able to confirm or deny whether the company had received a national security letter.

“Even with the canaries, we’re treading a fine line,” he wrote. “The whole thing is icky, which is why we joined Twitter in pushing back. I’ve been advised not to say anything one way or the other.”

His reference to Twitter is about an amicus brief that Reddit filed earlier this month, along with several other tech companies, in support of Twitter.

In that case, Twitter is asking the government for permission to publish a transparency report disclosing the number of requests for data that it received from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court between July 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013. “Twitter does not wish to reveal detail about any specific order that it may have received from the FISC during that time period, but rather seeks to publish the actual aggregate number of [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)] orders received,” the amicus brief states. Twitter also wants the freedom to report that “it received ‘zero’ FISA orders, or ‘zero’ of a specific kind of FISA order, for that period, if either of these circumstances is true.”

Twitter, and the signatories to the amicus brief, assert that the gag orders that come with national security orders violate the First Amendment “and to the extent the government relies on those provisions to prohibit Twitter indefinitely from publishing information about FISA orders it receives, those provisions are unconstitutional as applied.”

They’re not the only ones who think so.

In 2013, a California district court judge ruled that NSL gag orders are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, after one recipient of an NSL challenged it. US District Judge Susan Illston found that although the government made a strong argument for prohibiting the recipients of NSLs from disclosing to the target of an investigation or the public the specific information being sought under an NSL, the government did not provide compelling argument that the mere fact of disclosing that an NSL was received harmed national security interests.

A blanket prohibition on disclosure, she found, was overly broad and “creates too large a danger that speech is being unnecessarily restricted.” Illston ordered the government to stop issuing NSLs across the board and also ordered the government to cease enforcing the gag provision in other cases where they may already have been issued. However, the government appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which vacated her ruling and sent the case back to the district court last year. The case is pending further proceedings.

In their amicus brief in the Twitter case, Reddit and its co-signers urged the court to find that service providers have a constitutional right to report data about national security requests.

“This question is crucial for all companies seeking to provide accurate, useful information to their users in the aftermath of momentous public disclosures about government surveillance that have undermined user trust in online services,” they wrote.

As the recent Apple-FBI case over the San Bernardino iPhone has shown, sunlight and transparency help produce a healthy and vigorous public debate about government surveillance activities that have long been in the dark.

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Protected Folder Pro 1.2

April 1, 2016 2:43, by FGR* Blog

Protected Folder is designed to password-protect your folders and files from being seen, read or modified. It works like a safety box, just drag and drop the folders or files you want to hide or protect into Protected Folder, then no one can see, read or modify them. Whether you are concerned with privacy, data theft, data loss, or data leaks, Protected Folder is an ideal tool for you.

Please note: The software includes a 6-months license.


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Halo 5: Guardians Ghosts Of Meridian DLC Coming Next With New Maps And REQs

April 1, 2016 1:27, by FGR* Blog

Another free content update is coming to Halo 5: Guardians next week. Titled Ghosts of Meridian, players will get access to new maps and an expanded selection of REQ cards.

Two maps are included: one for warzone and another for arena modes. Skirmish at Darkstar takes place at a polar outpost with ancient machinary whirring to life. This warzone battlefield includes a new boss.

The arena map, Tyrant, is an intact Forerunner structure. This is a smaller, symmetrical map that is best suited for capture the flag and assault.

The REQs include the legendary gravity hammer Tartarus’ Gavel that explodes with each strike and amps your movement speed, strength, and jump height. Microsoft hasn’t specifically said when during the week this update will roll out, but there is a live stream taking place at 3 p.m. Pacific / 6 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, April 5.

For those playing this weekend, you can get a taste of an experimental Warzone Turbo playlist. This sets you at level nine as soon as your base is secure and rapidly regenerates your energy so you can pump out REQs quickly.

For more on Halo 5: Guardians, check out our review. For a glimpse at the new REQs coming in this update, keep scrolling down.


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Scanitto Pro 3.12

March 31, 2016 22:42, by FGR* Blog

Scanitto Pro is a simple, yet very powerful scanner software loaded with market-leading features. If you are looking for a fast and simple way to operate scanning software tool for creating digital copies of your documents in a wide variety of formats, then Scanitto Pro is your one-stop scanner software choice.

Key features:

  • Multiple file formats – save your scanned documents as PDF, BMP, JPG, TIFF, JP2 and PNG files.
  • Multi-page document creation – create multiple page PDFs securely and simply.
  • One-click copy & print – easily manage scanning, copying and document printing without the fuss.
  • Optical character recognition – provides for editing and textual search of scanned digital documents.
  • Instant cloud and social sharing – Upload scanned images to Google Drive, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter

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Os projetos de lei para controlar a internet…

March 31, 2016 22:18, by FGR* Blog

Como se já não bastasse o possível limite na franquia de dados da banda larga fixa, agora algo pior pode acontecer… apresento a vocês, os projetos de lei que querem aumentar a censura e vigilância na internet.

Vamos lá, o Congresso Nacional divulgou recentemente o relatório final da CPI dos Crimes Cibernéticos. O relatório propõe a criação de 8 projetos de lei, mas… eles atacam diretamente direitos fundamentais, como a liberdade de expressão, o direito à privacidade e mutilam as partes mais importantes do Marco Civil da Internet, as que protegem os internautas contra a vigilância e a censura.

O ITS Rio (Instituto de Tecnologia & Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro) resumiu as propostas, vejam os absurdos:

Imagem e honra – os usuários de redes sociais poderão ser obrigados a remover publicações que afetem a imagem e honra de alguém, principalmente os políticos (entendemos…). As postagens devem ser apagadas em até 48 horas, caso contrário, a empresa responsável pela rede social será co-responsabilizada por aquele conteúdo e terá de indenizar a pessoa ofendida.

Violação de termos de uso – Sabe os “termos de uso“, aquele enorme texto que todo mundo ignora? Pois se você desrespeitar os termos de uso de sites e aplicativos poderá ser condenado até dois anos de prisão.

Imposto – um dos projetos visa desviar 10% do valor arrecadado pelo Fistel (Fundo de Fiscalização das Telecomunicações), que têm por objetivo melhorar a qualidade das telecomunicações no Brasil, para financiar a polícia.

Polícia Federal – os “crimes cibernéticos” serão de competência da Polícia Federal. Ou seja, se você faz download de filmes e músicas, poderá receber a visita do japonês da Polícia Federal. Se você escreveu algo considerado “difamatório” ou “injurioso” contra algum político nas redes sociais terá de se explicar à Polícia Federal.

Identificação do IP – os provedores de internet podem ser obrigados a revelar automaticamente quem está por trás de cada endereço de IP na rede, sem a necessidade de ordem judicial prévia. A polícia teria acesso ao nome, filiação e endereço domiciliar de uma pessoa através de seu computador, facilitando muito a vigilância.

Censura – o Marco Civil proíbe a censura na internet, mas uma das propostas quer mudar isso permitindo aos provedores de conexão que bloqueiem o acesso a aplicações de internet para coibir serviços que sejam considerados ilegais, ou seja, isso abre um precedente para que qualquer site, serviço ou aplicativo seja bloqueado e censurado.

Os outros dois projetos falam de abrangência do crime de invasão de dispositivos e inclusão da educação digital nas diretrizes do Plano Nacional de Educação.

Os nossos “queridos” políticos querem censurar a maltratada internet no estragado Brasil com a ridícula desculpa de combater o cibercrime e entregá-la ao controle estrito do Estado. Isso é uma verdadeira criminalização da internet, semelhante a países como Arábia Saudita, Irã, Turquia, Coreia do Norte e Rússia. Sabemos que isso não é um bom caminho.

Cibercrimes podem ser combatidos, mas não censurando e controlando a internet. “Corram para as colinas”? Veremos…



God Eater Resurrection – 11 Minute Prologue

March 31, 2016 21:25, by FGR* Blog


God Eater Resurrection – 11 Minute Prologue

In a prologue to the GOD EATER series, this animation created by ufotable gives a glimpse of key characters Soma, Lindow, Tsubaki and Johannes von Schicksal, 6 years before the events of GOD EATER: Resurrection.

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O que é software livre

March 31, 2016 20:31, by FGR* Blog



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Este eBook foi convertido ao formato digital por uma comunidade de voluntários. Você pode encontra-lo gratuitamente online. A compra da edição Kindle inclui os custos da entrega sem fio.



Artipic 2.3.3

March 31, 2016 18:41, by FGR* Blog

Artipic is a multi-platform image editing system that allows you to quickly and easily edit, retouch, compose and distribute your pictures and photos. Artipic features quite an extensive array of editing functions, filters and adjustments to enhance images. Reversible Stylization enables managing presets of effects and applying them without affecting the source. Batch Processing Module empowers to format large numbers of images by applying predefined action sets.

Please note: the program includes the 6 months license!


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