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...been pulling their punches. Right now the Storm Worm gang controls a massive amount of computing power, as much as some of the world's largest supercomputers, and all they do with it is send out spam and conduct the occasional denial-of-service attack (bombarding a specific server with traffic until it shuts down). We're lucky: so far they haven't gone in for more lucrative, damaging activities like online gambling, stock scams and stealing passwords and credit-card information. Is it possible that even a worm can have a conscience...
...second issue concerns the technology needed for office servers to communicate with one another when they use rival software to share files or printers. The Commission said that without these protocols, computers running rival server operating systems, like open-source software Linux, cannot work properly with Windows...
Most cell phone owners think simply removing a phone's SIM card removes personal information, but the phone's internal memory, even communication exchanged between the phone and its server, remain. Phone manuals detail how to perform multiple reset commands to erase personal information and some online recycling phone services offer command sets for specific phones, but most people never bother to go through the tedious process, Mislan says. For example, child predators who stalk "moblogs" - the cell phone equivalent of web blogs that are popular with young phone users - may believe they have deleted text messages and postings...
...with the SETI@home project, launched in late 1999. The project set out to find extraterrestrial life through a novel program that launched a screensaver when you weren't using your computer. Behind the scenes, the program was retrieving data files to analyze, returning the results to a main server. Since its inception, the SETI@Home project has accumulated over five million volunteer clients, with over one million active as of the beginning of this year...
...while Doane said that the DASCH team is excited that it created a server that can hold 13 terabytes of data—13,000 gigabytes—for only $12,000, photographing all the plates will require more than 70 times as much memory...