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Brit spies can legally hack PCs and phones, say Brit spies' overseers (The Register) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at February 12, 2016, 11:57 pm)

Today, the Wikimedia Foundation announced it's removal of The Diary of Anne Frank from Wikisource, a digital library of free texts. According to the United States' Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), works are protected for 95 years from the date of publication, meaning Wikimedia is not allowed to host a copy of the book before 2042. Rogers, the Legal Counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, says this is just one of the many examples of the overreach of the United States' current copyright law. He goes on to say, "Our removal serves as an excellent example of why the law should be changed to prevent repeated extensions of copyright terms."

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Church reconciliation and the welfare of Christians in M East and Africa in the agenda of historic talks held in Cuba.

Quick Look can help you peer inside files quickly, but it’s easy to miss or forget about. You’ll learn how to use Quick Look from the Finder, within some of Apple’s apps, and from the command line. We’ll also share some tricks you may not know and some of our favorite plug-ins that make Quick Look even more useful.

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Maintenance update for the file cleanup utility with a few bug fixes. ($29 new, free update, 9.0 MB)

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The folks at cloud-backup service Backblaze have discovered a troubling behavior in Adobe Creative Cloud: Adobe’s Mac software is deleting the contents of the first hidden folder it sees, in alphabetical order, at the root of users’ disks. (Hidden folders aren’t displayed in the Finder, but often contain important settings or other data.) Backblaze users noticed the bug because the Backblaze app depends on a hidden folder called .bzvol, which is often alphabetically the first hidden folder on Backblaze users’ drives. If you use Backblaze, the company offers a way to work around the bug by creating a sacrificial folder that sorts before .bzvol. It’s up to Adobe to fix the issue permanently.

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New submitter Chance Callahan writes: I am starting a business, helping a friend with his own startup, and volunteering regularly with a major political campaign (#feelthebern). One thing I have noticed is that my phone likes to die at the most inconvenient times and leaves me out of touch with people. With the business I'm starting requiring clients to be able to get ahold me quickly, I have been seriously considering getting a two-way pager. It's much easier swap out a AA battery once a month then to worry "will client X be able to get ahold me in the event of an emergency?" So, Slashdot, the million dollar question is, in the age of cell phones, do you have a pager? Do you still find it useful? Do any other "dead-tech" tools still play a big role for your communications? For example, fax machines are still big in Japan, and a lot of people keep landlines, too.