load01 02/11/2011

• A year later: Has Oracle ruined or saved Sun?

  tags: technology

• Vatican Bans IOS Confession App - Slashdot

  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Vatican Bans IOS Confession App|   from the get-your-iabsolution-somewhere-else dept.|   posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 10, @10:28 (IOS)|   https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/1448256/Vatican-Bans-IOS-Confession-App?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  An anonymous reader writes "Despite all the hype that [0]a lowly priesthad approved the new confessional app hitting the app store, the truthhas now revealed itself. According to today's Daily Mail, a spokesman forthe Vatican, Federico Lombardi said: 'It is essential to understand thatthe rites of penance require a personal dialogue between penitents andtheir confessor. It cannot be replaced by a computer application. I muststress to avoid all ambiguity, [1]under no circumstance is it possible toconfess by iPhone."
  Discuss this story at:   https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/1448256/Vatican-Bans-IOS-Confession-App?from=newsletter#commentlisting
  Links:   0. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/2258234/Confession-Theres-an-iPhone-App-For-That   1. http://theappwhisperer.com/2011/02/10/vacitan-bans-ios-confessional-app/
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  tags: technology

• Secret plan to kill Wikileaks with FUD leaked > Cybercrime > Legal > News > SC Magazine Australia/NZ

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Secret Plan To Kill Wikileaks With FUD Leaked|   from the cyber-plumbers dept.|   posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 10, @08:48 (Businesses)|   https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/1243211/Secret-Plan-To-Kill-Wikileaks-With-FUD-Leaked?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  An anonymous reader writes "Three information security consultancies withlinks to US spy agencies [0]cooked up a dirty tricks campaign late lastyear to destroy Wikileaks by exploiting its perceived weaknesses, reads a[1]presentation released by the whistleblowers' (pdf) organization thatit claimed to be from the conspirators. Consultants at US defensecontractors Palantir Technologies, Berico Technologies and HBGaryproposed to lawyers for a desperate Bank of America an alliance thatwould work to discredit the whistleblowers' website using a divide andconquer approach. Since the plan was hatched, disgruntled volunteersmentioned in the PDF broke away from Wikileaks, financial institutionswithdrew services, [Jacob ] Appelbaum was harassed by the US government,and Amazon denied service to Wikileaks' website."
  Discuss this story at:   https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/1243211/Secret-Plan-To-Kill-Wikileaks-With-FUD-Leaked?from=newsletter#commentlisting
  Links:   0. http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/247706,secret-plan-to-kill-wikileaks-with-fud-leaked.aspx   1. http://wikileaks.ch/IMG/pdf/WikiLeaks_Response_v6.pdf

  tags: technology

• M/C Reviews - Memoir: My Story: The Tale of a Terrorist Who Wasn't

  tags: worse than failure

• Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

  tags: culture

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