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In this issue:
* Should Book Authors Pursue a Patronage Model?
* Windows 8 To Reduce Memory Footprint
* Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students
* Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java
* ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data'
* Apple Tries To Patent 3rd Party In-App Purchasing
* Linux In JavaScript, With Persistent Storage
* MS Buying Yahoo? Bad Idea, Even At a Discount
* Extension To Chrome Brings Remote Desktop Abilities
* Oracle To Bring Dtrace To Linux
* FBI Plans Nationwide Face-Recognition Trials In 2012
* Russian Telco MTS Bans Skype, Other VoIP Services
* German Government's Malware Analyzed
* Belgian Court Order May Be Too Specific To Actually Block Pirate Bay Domain
* Ask Slashdot: Which License For School Products?
* Facebook's URL Scanner Vulnerable To Cloaking Attack
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| Should Book Authors Pursue a Patronage Model?
| from the tip-jar-running-low dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @13:25 (Books)
| with 296 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1724232/should-book-authors-pursue-a-patronage-model?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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blarkon writes "With ebook prices falling and some readers even
[0]unwilling to pay more than 99 cents for an ebook, some authors are
starting to consider [1]a move back to the patronage model that was
successful in providing them with a living before the widespread use of
copyright. Might such a model work or are the days where a midlist author
can make a living off their work a relic of the 20th century?"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1724232/should-book-authors-pursue-a-patronage-model?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-dionne/why-99cent-ebooks-are-a-b_b_850053.html
1. http://www.salon.com/2011/10/05/your_favorite_author_brought_to_you_by_a_wealthy_patron/
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| Windows 8 To Reduce Memory Footprint
| from the those-sound-like-good-ideas dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @09:21 (Windows)
| with 250 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1259218/windows-8-to-reduce-memory-footprint?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]bheer writes "Microsoft's Windows 8 blog has a good post about the
work being done to [1]reduce Windows 8's memory footprint. The OS will
use multiple approaches to do this, including combining RAM pages,
re-architecting old bits of code and adding new APIs for more granular
memory management. Interestingly, it will also let services start on a
trigger and stop when needed instead of running all the time."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1259218/windows-8-to-reduce-memory-footprint?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:rbheer@@@gmail...com
1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/07/reducing-runtime-memory-in-windows-8.aspx
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| Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students
| from the mandatory-attendance-including-your-fingers dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @14:27 (Privacy)
| with 231 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1824223/florida-school-district-begins-fingerprinting-students?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter Boogaroo writes "The Washington County
school district in Florida has placed fingerprint scanners at the
entrance to Chipley High School. They've also made a decision to run an
alternate trial by [0]placing the scanners on buses since most kids in
the district ride buses every day. Since the beginning the
fingerprinting, attendance is up, but not everyone is in agreement that
the costs and risks are worth the attendance boost." Aren't there simpler
and less-creepy ways to count kids, like looking at empty desks?
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1824223/florida-school-district-begins-fingerprinting-students?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java
| from the larry-pulls-a-shot dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @12:19 (Java)
| with 194 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1616241/oracles-ambitious-plan-for-client-side-java?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister suggests that the
real news out of this year's JavaOne is Oracle's ambitious plan to
[1]revitalize Java on the desktop, the Web, and mobile devices. 'It's
been tempting to assume that Oracle, with its strong enterprise focus,
would ignore the client in favor of data center technologies such as Java
EE. This week, we learned that's not the case. In fact, the real news
from this year's JavaOne conference in San Francisco may not be
[2]Oracle's plans for Java 8 and 9, but the revelation that Oracle is
gearing up for a new, sustained push behind Java for the desktop, the
Web, and mobile devices. If it can succeed in its ambitious plans, the
age of client-side Java could be just beginning.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1616241/oracles-ambitious-plan-for-client-side-java?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/oracles-ambitious-plan-client-side-java-175241
2. http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/oracle-releases-javafx-20-shares-plans-java-9-174896
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| ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data'
| from the learned-it-from-the-telcos dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @07:30 (The Internet)
| with 148 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/054237/isps-exaggerate-the-cost-of-data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Barence writes "[1]ISPs are wildly exaggerating the cost of increased
internet traffic, according to a new report. Fixed and mobile broadband
providers have claimed their costs are 'ballooning' because of the
expense of delivering high-bandwidth services such as video-on-demand.
However, a new report from Plum Consulting claims the cost per additional
gigabyte of data for fixed-line ISPs is between ���0.01-0.03 per GB. The
report labels claims of ballooning costs a 'myth.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/054237/isps-exaggerate-the-cost-of-data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/370393/isps-over-exaggerate-the-cost-of-data
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| Apple Tries To Patent 3rd Party In-App Purchasing
| from the on-the-internet dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @15:32 (Android)
| with 146 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1929233/apple-tries-to-patent-3rd-party-in-app-purchasing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bizwriter writes "Apple has spared no effort in trying to injure its arch
mobile rival through the courts, like [0]blocking Android vendors from
important markets through patent and trademark infringement suits. Now
it's developing an additional angle: an attempt to [1]patent
in-application purchases from third parties, as an application filed on
April 26, 2010 and [2]made public on Thursday made clear."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1929233/apple-tries-to-patent-3rd-party-in-app-purchasing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/apple-legal-victory-court-blocks-samsung-tablet-in-europe-update/12219
1. http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220110246290%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20110246290&RS=DN/20110246290
2. http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/apple-looks-to-burn-google-with-3rd-party-in-app-purchase-patent/13169
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| Linux In JavaScript, With Persistent Storage
| from the and-all-I-want-is-a-working-wireless-card dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @10:18 (Linux)
| with 143 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1340253/linux-in-javascript-with-persistent-storage?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Remember Fabrice bellard's [0][Linux-booting
PC emulator in JavaScript] ? This [1]modified version [Note: click on
"emulator.html" in that directory to see it in action] allows the same
emulator to boot the most recent linux kernel, 3.0.4, as well as
providing the user with persistent storage. It is achieved by building a
virtual block device, which stores data in HTML5 local storage. The block
device can be partitioned and formatted as ext2, so it can be easily
used."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1340253/linux-in-javascript-with-persistent-storage?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/17/0242244/Boot-Linux-In-Your-Browser
1. http://stud.hro.nl/0814604/jslinuxdemo/
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| MS Buying Yahoo? Bad Idea, Even At a Discount
| from the bing-bing-bing-we-have-a-winner dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @01:50 (Businesses)
| with 129 comments
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/0314220/ms-buying-yahoo-bad-idea-even-at-a-discount?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Nearly four years ago, Microsoft [1]tried to buy
Yahoo, but eventually [2]withdrew the offer in the face of resistance
from Yahoo's leadership. This week rumors resurfaced that Microsoft was
once again bidding on the struggling Internet pioneer, this time for
significantly less money. But even at a discount, it might be a [3]pretty
bad idea for Microsoft to get involved in the unfocused, money-losing
Yahoo."
Discuss this story at:
https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/0314220/ms-buying-yahoo-bad-idea-even-at-a-discount?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/02/01/1353211/microsoft-bids-446-billion-for-yahoo
2. http://news.slashdot.org/story/08/05/04/0045248/microsoft-withdraws-yahoo-takeover-offer
3. http://www.itworld.com/software/211207/even-big-discount-yahoo-acquisition-would-be-mistake-microsoft
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| Extension To Chrome Brings Remote Desktop Abilities
| from the new-meaning-for-parental-support dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @18:47 (Chrome)
| with 118 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/2246255/extension-to-chrome-brings-remote-desktop-abilities?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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CNET reports that as of yesterday, a new Chrome extension will "let a
person on one computer remotely control another across the network." The
new [0]remote-desktop capability is in BETA (Google's all-caps version,
for emphasis), but is said to work to control any OS from any other OS,
so long as both sides are equipped with Chrome and the new extension.
Related: Wired is running a [1]profile of Rajen Sheth ��� "father of
Gmail," and now in charge of Google's Chromebook project as well.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/2246255/extension-to-chrome-brings-remote-desktop-abilities?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20117619-264/chrome-extension-enables-remote-computer-control/
1. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/chromebook-raises-second-child/
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| Oracle To Bring Dtrace To Linux
| from the dplane-dplane-no-that's-fantasy-island dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday October 07, @22:49 (Oracle)
| with 114 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/0120215/oracle-to-bring-dtrace-to-linux?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mvar writes "[0]Dtrace co-author Adam Leventhal writes on his blog about
[1]Dtrace for Linux: 'Yesterday (October 4, 2011) Oracle made the
surprising announcement that they would be porting some key Solaris
features, DTrace and Zones, to Oracle Enterprise Linux. As one of the
original authors, the news about DTrace was particularly interesting to
me, so I started digging. Even among Oracle employees, there's
uncertainty about what was announced. Ed Screven gave us just a couple of
bullet points in his keynote; Sergio Leunissen, the product manager for
OEL, didn't have further details in his OpenWorld talk beyond it being a
beta of limited functionality; and the entire Solaris team seemed
completely taken by surprise. Leunissen stated that only the kernel
components of DTrace are part of the port. It's unclear whether that
means just fbt or includes sdt and the related providers. It sounds
certain, though, that it won't pass the DTrace test suite which is the
deciding criterion between a DTrace port and some sort of work in
progress.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/0120215/oracle-to-bring-dtrace-to-linux?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace
1. http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2011/10/05/dtrace-for-linux-2/
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| FBI Plans Nationwide Face-Recognition Trials In 2012
| from the nationwide-in-select-states dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @08:25 (Privacy)
| with 97 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/2342240/fbi-plans-nationwide-face-recognition-trials-in-2012?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]hessian writes with this excerpt: "The FBI by mid-January will
[1]activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that
will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau
officials told Nextgov. The federal government is embarking on a
multiyear, $1 billion dollar overhaul of the FBI's existing fingerprint
database to more quickly and accurately identify suspects, partly through
applying other biometric markers, such as iris scans and voice
recordings."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/2342240/fbi-plans-nationwide-face-recognition-trials-in-2012?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.deathmetal.org/
1. http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20111007_6100.php?oref=topstory
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| Russian Telco MTS Bans Skype, Other VoIP Services
| from the but-that-complicates-my-wedding-plans dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @04:40 (Communications)
| with 90 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/0326235/russian-telco-mts-bans-skype-other-voip-services?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "[0]MTS, one of the three largest mobile
carriers in Russia, have been buying up smaller cable TV and Internet
providers across the country, and besides the GSM/3G cellphone service
they now also offer cable TV and home broadband Internet access. And
their [1]unified TOS [PDF] (Russian; [2]mirror) for [3]home broadband now
says: "3.4.4. The customer may not use the Services for the purpose of
transferring voice over the Internet; Skype and other similar software is
forbidden." ([4]screenshot). Really, why would you need to phone over the
Internet, comrade, when you have a perfectly good cellphone [from MTS,
presumably]?" Can anyone out there provide a good translation?
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Links:
0. http://www.mts.ru/
1. http://static.mts.ru/uploadmsk/contents/1655/dogovor_ob_okazanii_uslug_svyazi_22.03.11.pdf
2. http://ompldr.org/vYXA2Mg/dogovor_ob_okazanii_uslug_svyazi_22.03.11.pdf
3. http://dom.mts.ru/
4. http://ompldr.org/vYXA2NQ/2011-10-07T123406Z-mts.png
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| German Government's Malware Analyzed
| from the unter-dem-mikroskop dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @16:31 (Government)
| with 88 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/2029221/german-governments-malware-analyzed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter lennier1 writes "The German hacker group
CCC (Chaos Computer Club) has [0]analyzed a piece of malware the German
government uses in criminal investigations to spy on a suspect's
computer. I'm sure we're all surprised that it's opening security holes
for third parties, and violates a related court verdict (and several laws
in general)."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/2029221/german-governments-malware-analyzed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner
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| Belgian Court Order May Be Too Specific To Actually Block Pirate Bay Domain
| from the not-responsible-for-thinkographic-errors dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @19:53 (Censorship)
| with 68 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/2327227/belgian-court-order-may-be-too-specific-to-actually-block-pirate-bay-domain?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bs0d3 writes "Recently, many people from Belgium have been joining [0]The
Pirate Bay's and [1]Telecomix's IRC channels, asking for help with the
[2]Telecomix DNS, saying that it doesn't work to access
[3]www.thepiratebay.org. This is true. The court was [4]very specific in
its order, which was to block the domains www.thepiratebay.org,
www.thepiratebay.net, www.thepiratebay.com, www.thepiratebay.nu,
www.thepiratebay.se, www.piratebay.no, and www.ripthepiratebay.com, or
else face a daily penalty of 1000 EUR for every day when defendants do
not implement such 'DNS-blocking' in their DNS-servers'. So, obviously in
defiance of that, people testing their DNS servers go to the domain
www.thepiratebay.org ��� except, thepiratebay [5]doesn't have the www
domain turned on. At one point it redirected to the main page, at the URL
[6]thepiratebay.org; now it doesn't, probably because of negligence from
the admins. What's interesting is that the court only ordered the block
of the www subdomains, so if an ISP wants to make a fuss they should be
able to avoid the penalties until a later ruling."
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Links:
0. https://02.chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.efnet.nl:6667&channel=%23thepiratebay.org&nick=slashdot
1. https://02.chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.telecomix.net:6667&channel=%23telecomix&nick=slashdot
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/04/1855211/belgian-isp-ordered-to-block-the-pirate-bay-telecomix-and-tpb-offer-workarounds
3. http://www.thepiratebay.org/
4. http://kluwercopyrightblog.com/2011/10/06/%E2%80%9Cin-order-to-fight-copyright-infringements-isps-may-be-asked-to-render-specific-websites-inaccessible-to-their-subscribers%E2%80%9D/
5. http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2011-10-08/Belgium_May_Not_be_Blocking_The_Pirate_Bay.html
6. https://thepiratebay.org/
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| Ask Slashdot: Which License For School Products?
| from the one-for-you-and-one-for-posterity dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @11:17 (Education)
| with 47 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1349203/ask-slashdot-which-license-for-school-products?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Reader [0]TheodoreQSwiss breaks onto the page with this question: "The
independent school where I serve as Dir. of Technology is in the middle
of reworking their employee handbooks and would like to include a section
on ownership of the intellectual property produced by employees of the
school while doing work for the school. Ideally, both the school and the
creator(s) would be able to retain rights to the use of the product. Do
you have any recommendations on licenses that would support both parties
involved?"
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https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1349203/ask-slashdot-which-license-for-school-products?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.mvschool.com/
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| Facebook's URL Scanner Vulnerable To Cloaking Attack
| from the spy-vs-jerk dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday October 08, @17:45 (Facebook)
| with 26 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/2145216/facebooks-url-scanner-vulnerable-to-cloaking-attack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Facebook's recent move to scan for malicious URLs sounded like a pretty
good idea, but [0]itwbennett writes with word that it's already been
bypassed.'Hatter,' a member of hacking think-tank Blackhat Academy,
[1]provided a live demonstration, which involved posting the URL to a
JPEG file on a wall. Facebook crawled the URL and added a thumbnail image
to the wall post, however, clicking on its corresponding link actually
redirected users to YouTube. This happened because the destination page
was able to identify Facebook's original request and served a JPEG file.
Earlier this week, Facebook signed a partnership with Websense to use the
security vendor's cloud-based, real-time Web scanner for [2]malicious URL
detection. Blackhat Academy has now provided [3]proof-of-concept code,
which, according to its advisory, can be used to bypass it."
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/2145216/facebooks-url-scanner-vulnerable-to-cloaking-attack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/security/211289/facebooks-url-scanner-vulnerable-cloaking-attacks
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/03/1231246/facebook-adds-malicious-link-protection
3. http://www.blackhatacademy.org/security101/index.php?title=Facebook#Content_Forgery
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