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2008-08-30T09:02:00.000-07:00

Scam Reported to Fleece Americans

Posted by Biplob on August 29, 2008 at 2:06 pm

BBC News reports it has unearthed a plan in which fraudsters with stolen credit-card information would clone the information onto the magnetic strips of other cards, then use them in UK supermarkets to strip money from unsuspecting Americans.
One gang said it accessed the accounts of more than 2,300 Americans in one month and planned to make fake cards to be used overseas. It claimed to have acquired the information from gangs in the United States that say they have tapped the phone lines between banks and cash machines.
Central to the plan was to use the cards at supermarket self-service checkout stands, bypassing the risk that a store employee might spot the forged cards.
The story blames the slow uptake in the United States of chip-and-pin technology for enabling the thefts. The targeted supermarkets, however, said their systems automatically call the bank for authorization anytime a card is swiped rather than using chip-and-pin.

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2008-08-29T07:52:00.000-07:00

Google Code reverses open-source license ban,

Google has undone an earlier ban on the Mozilla Public License, an option for open-source projects hosted at its Google Code site.

Chris DiBona, Google's manager of open-source programs
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News)
Ostensibly as part of an effort to discourage the proliferation of open-source licenses, Google dropped support for the MPL earlier in August. Now, though, the company reconsidered, restoring it and adding support for the Eclipse Public License as well.
"How we think about licenses is getting a bit more nuanced," said Chris DiBona, leader of Google's open-source team in a blog posting.
Before, the company had tried to discourage the increase in the number of open-source licenses; having multiple licenses can increase legal costs and in some cases prohibit mingling code from one open-source project to another. But the Eclipse programming tool project is thriving, and it's better not to block its projects, Di Bona said.
"Eclipse is an important, lively and healthy project with an enormous plug-in and developer community that uses an otherwise duplicative license. They aren't interested in using the BSD or other open-source licenses that are readily combinable with EPL code," Di Bona said. "We have decided that after nearly 2 years of operation, that it was time to add the EPL and serve these open source developers."
And Google has also allowed some licenses that are employed by particular users.
"In that light, our removal of the MPL from the site seemed a little absurd. So, our bad," Di Bona said. "We're putting that option back up for new projects. The groups that want to use the MPL to enable their additions, extensions and more for Firefox and other Mozilla projects are legion and considering their recent summit, represent a very healthy global collection of developers."

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