Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer's Conviction Could Make You Less ...

In a New Jersey courtroom last month, federal prosecutors described Andrew Auernheimer as a publicity-hungry hacker who violated the privacy of thousands of iPad owners by disclosing their email addresses to a reporter.

A jury agreed, finding him guilty of identity theft and conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to computers. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

But security researchers worry that Auernheimer's conviction could jeopardize Internet security by creating a chilling effect on their work. These researchers, known as "white hat" hackers, find security flaws and report them to companies that are supposed to fix them before "black hat" hackers exploit them to harm consumers. Some say Auernheimer's conviction may make these good hackers more reluctant to disclose their findings, leaving consumers less safe online.

"If other researchers find flaws but are scared about disclosing them, that's going to give them pause," Jeremiah Grossman, founder of the security firm White Hat Security, said in an interview. "And that makes it easier for the bad guys to put people at risk."

Dave Aitel, founder of the security firm Immunity, said Auernheimer's conviction may have widespread implications for his industry.

"It's obvious to anyone with a technical background that the case the FBI brought against him is a travesty, and the fact that they won is even more insane," Aitel wrote. "If they manage to make it stick, the collateral damage is all of us."

Two years ago, Auernheimer, 27, known online by the nickname "Weev," found a security loophole in an AT&T server that allowed his self-described security group, Goatse Security, to collect 114,000 email addresses belonging to iPad 3G users. He turned over that information to a reporter at Gawker, which posted some partially redacted addresses, prompting an FBI investigation.

Security researchers typically turn over security flaws they discover to manufacturers and give them time to patch them before going public with their findings. But some believe that going public is the only way to force a company to improve their security.

Prosecutors said Auernheimer should have disclosed the flaw to AT&T, or to federal authorities.

"If he thought there was a real security vulnerability he could have done something else. He could have contacted the FBI," Zach Intrater, an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, said in court last month. "But he didn't do that either. He only contacted reporters and you know why? Because his real motive was to publicize Goatse Security so he could market himself for financial gain."

Auernheimer said AT&T knew about the loophole and both the company and the FBI would have ignored him if he brought it to their attention. He said consumers should be informed when a company puts their security at risk.

He also said he does not adhere to the same code of ethics as "white hat" hackers. Last week, he wrote an op-ed in Wired arguing that researchers should disclose security weaknesses to someone "who will use it in the interests of social justice" and "facilitate the public shaming of a web application operator" -- and not directly to companies.

"My moral obligation is not to help AT&T, it's to criticize them," Auernheimer said in an interview with The Huffington Post.

AT&T declined to comment.

As he awaits his sentencing, scheduled for February, Auernheimer said he spends his days working and his nights partying. On a recent morning, he sat on a white leather couch in an apartment in lower Manhattan. Cigarette butts sat in an ashtray on a coffee table. Bottles of liquor lined one of the walls next a flat-screen TV. Auernheimer said it was an office for a company that he works for, but refused to disclose its name.

He wore a black hoodie, black combat boots, thick-framed glasses, cuffed jeans, and a thin red beard. He spoke with a deep gravelly voice and a slight Southern drawl, peppering his sentences with expletives and laughter.

He said he works in "material sciences" "disaster response" and "aluminum welding." He insisted he doesn't need the money because a community of hackers pays his rent, food and transit. He spends his free time reading Greek classics ("I'm a big fan of the pre-Socratics, personally.") and attending parties until 6 a.m.

He described himself as a philosopher, a prophet, and "a fed-up guy from Arkansas." A website created to raise money for his legal defense describes him as "the world's most notorious Internet troll" who "never takes anything seriously and generally treats life as a piece of performance art." As a troll, he frequently says things just to evoke an emotional response from people. He told The Huffington Post his last wish before going to prison was to play a game of paintball on jet skis.

His bail conditions preclude him from using a computer, but he still uses a smartphone and broadcasts his thoughts on a variety of topics, including cybersecurity, on Twitter, where he has nearly 3,000 followers.

He said he was not surprised that he was found guilty and expects to win his case on appeal. He also said he isn't afraid of prison, and plans to keep a blog during his incarceration.

He said his conviction has brought more attention to his message -- that corporations are evil and deserve criticism -- than any prank he could have pulled online.

"They?ve done my message a huge favor," he said. "What I'm trying to say has been greatly been helped by the fact that the federal government is shoving me in a prison cell."

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La Scala inaugurates season with 'Lohengrin'

In this undated photo provided by Alla Scala theater press office, Jonas Kaufmann, right, who plays Lohengrin, and Anja Harteros, playing Elsa, perform during rehersals of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin at the Milan La Scala opera house, Italy. The dual bicentennial of the births of composers Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner is turning into a dueling bicentennial. La Scala general manager Stephane Lissner on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 dismissed as "ridiculous" criticism by the Italian media because the famed Milan opera house that was once Verdi's musical home is opening the celebratory season with Wagner's "Lohengrin." No less than Italy's respected President Giorgio Napolitano entered the fray. He wrote a letter to musical director Daniel Barenboim rejecting press rumors that he was snubbing the gala season opener on Friday. (AP Photo/Monika Rittershaus, La Scala)

In this undated photo provided by Alla Scala theater press office, Jonas Kaufmann, right, who plays Lohengrin, and Anja Harteros, playing Elsa, perform during rehersals of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin at the Milan La Scala opera house, Italy. The dual bicentennial of the births of composers Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner is turning into a dueling bicentennial. La Scala general manager Stephane Lissner on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 dismissed as "ridiculous" criticism by the Italian media because the famed Milan opera house that was once Verdi's musical home is opening the celebratory season with Wagner's "Lohengrin." No less than Italy's respected President Giorgio Napolitano entered the fray. He wrote a letter to musical director Daniel Barenboim rejecting press rumors that he was snubbing the gala season opener on Friday. (AP Photo/Monika Rittershaus, La Scala)

In this undated photo provided by Alla Scala theater press office, Jonas Kaufmann, who plays Lohengrin, performs during rehersals of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin at the Milan La Scala opera house, Italy. The dual bicentennial of the births of composers Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner is turning into a dueling bicentennial. La Scala general manager Stephane Lissner on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 dismissed as "ridiculous" criticism by the Italian media because the famed Milan opera house that was once Verdi's musical home is opening the celebratory season with Wagner's "Lohengrin." No less than Italy's respected President Giorgio Napolitano entered the fray. He wrote a letter to musical director Daniel Barenboim rejecting press rumors that he was snubbing the gala season opener on Friday. (AP Photo/Monika Rittershaus, La Scala)

(AP) ? The famed La Scala opera house is beginning its 2012-13 season honoring the dual bicentennials of its own Giuseppe Verdi and German icon Richard Wagner, starting with the Teutonic classic "Lohengrin."

Daniel Barenboim, La Scala's music director and a Wagner aficionado, conducts the gala season opener, one of the premier events on the European cultural calendar. German bass Rene Pape appears as King Heinrich and tenor Jonas Kaufmann as Lohengrin. German soprano Anja Harteros sings the part of Elsa and Evelyn Herlitzius is Ortrud.

A preview performance for younger opera-goers Tuesday was strongly applauded. German director Claus Guth's nontraditional staging sets the tale in the Victorian era.

The opener will be broadcast live in 600 cinemas around the world, as well as on Italian state television and radio.

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Grammys 'Blew It' With Justin Bieber, Scooter Braun Rants

'This time he deserved to be recognized,' Schoolboy Records mogul tweets shortly after Bieber received zero Grammy nods.
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Prenatal tests more informative using microarray technology than microscope analysis

ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2012) ? A new method for detecting abnormalities in unborn children is providing physicians with more information to analyze the results than conventional, microscopic testing, according to two George Washington University researchers.

Elizabeth Thom, research professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, and Julia Zachary, senior research scientist, are co-authors of the lead article appearing in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine showing that microarray technology provides a more comprehensive result from genetic testing during prenatal care of women than the current method of testing, called karyotyping, which relies on visual analysis of the fetal chromosomes.

"Microarray analysis of blood is now standard of care when children or adults present with undiagnosed neurodevelopmental problems since there are a number of serious syndromes that involve small changes on chromosomes which are not seen through a microscope," explained Dr. Thom. "It is a natural extension to want to identify these syndromes prenatally, but research into how to interpret the data is essential."

The GW Biostatistics Center in Rockville, Md. where Dr. Thom and Ms. Zachary are both based was the coordinating center for the multi-site trial. The research was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and led by Columbia University Medical Center.

The trial involved 4,400 patients at 29 centers nationwide and the data took more than four years to compile. The trial's cohort consisted of women over the age of 18 but predominantly over 30, whose fetuses were shown in early screenings to be at a heightened risk for Down syndrome or to have structural abnormalities found through an ultrasound.

The trial found that microarray analysis performed as well as karyotyping in identifying common outcomes involving an abnormal number of chromosomes, which can cause genetic or developmental disorders. It also identified additional abnormalities that were completely undetected by karyotyping.

"Particularly when a prenatal ultrasound has shown anomalies it becomes very important for parents to have an explanation. When the karyotype is normal, microarray analysis will provide additional information in 6 percent of cases. This diagnosis allows parents to plan for early intervention, especially in the case of autism spectrum and other neurodevelopmental disorders," said Ms. Zachary.

Use of microarray for analysis of prenatal samples has only been done in a few laboratories in the U.S. until recently, primarily because of high cost, the difficulty in developing protocols which achieve reliable success rates in DNA extraction from uncultured prenatal samples and the limited experience by genetic counselors and physicians in interpreting the results.

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Metabolic biomarkers for preventive molecular medicine

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

One of the big challenges of biomedicine is understanding the origin of illnesses in order to improve early detection and significantly increase recovery rates, as well as being able to do what CNIO researchers call preventive molecular medicine, which consists of identifying those individuals who have a greater molecular risk of suffering certain pathologies in order to prevent them. The ageing of the organism, and therefore of the cells and tissues it is made of, represents the greatest risk factor for the majority of developed-world illnesses, including cancer.

A team of scientists from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), led by its director, Mar?a Blasco, together with Jose M. Mato, the director of the Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), has shown that the metabolic profile of an organism indicates its level of cellular ageing and the general state of health in mice. These results could be of great use for preventive molecular medicine, given that they would indicate the state of health quickly and in a non-invasive manner, and that they would help to prevent illnesses or to diagnose them at the earliest stages.

The metabolism is one of the processes which best defines the general state of organisms. With the aim of studying a possible relationship between the metabolism and ageing, the authors of this study have used a new methodology that, based on liquid chromatography techniques and nuclear magnetic resonance, has made it possible to study up to 1.500 metabolites?intermediate products of the metabolism?in 130 mice using very small samples ? just 5-10 ?l of blood serum?.

"Using this new technique, we have seen that the metabolic profile of mice depends on their age; specifically, we have found 48 metabolites that vary very significantly with age", says CNIO researcher Bruno Bernardes de Jes?s, one of the study's authors.

When researchers carried out the same analysis in mice that had increased levels of telomerase ?those that age more slowly, according to a study published recently by the Blasco laboratory in the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine?, they observed that the metabolic footprint was very similar to that of the youngest mice. When they studied mice with telomerase deficiencies ?those that aged more quickly?, they observed a metabolic profile very similar to that of older animals.

Recent studies in humans indicate a possible relationship between the metabolism and life expectancy. "Our large-scale analysis, that analyses a larger amount of metabolites than has ever been studied before, validates the theory that the metabolome faithfully shows cells' biological clocks", says Mato.

NEW BIOMARKERS TO EVALUATE THE STATE OF HEALTH

Ageing is characterised in large part by metabolic decline that implies loss of hepatic, renal, coronary or cardiac function, as well as an increased risk of suffering cancer. In fact, some of the 48 metabolites identified in the study have previously been related to illnesses associated with age, such as Alzheimer's or cardiovascular diseases.

The results of this research may be useful for predicting the overall state of health in humans, via the extraction of a small blood sample. They might also be useful for preventing illnesses related to the passage of time, which make up the majority of deadly diseases in developed countries.

From these results, the researchers are also looking into searching for diagnostic biomarkers that are associated to high-impact socioeconomic illnesses such as diabetes, obesity or cardiovascular diseases.

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A metabolic signature predicts biological age in mice. Antonia Toms-Loba, Bruno Bernardes de Jesus, Jose M. Mato, Maria A. Blasco. Aging Cell (2012). doi: 10.1111/acel.12025

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NASA: Voyager 1 enters new region of solar system

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The unstoppable Voyager 1 spacecraft has sailed into a new realm of the solar system that scientists did not know existed.

Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, have been speeding away from the sun toward interstellar space, or the space between stars.

Over the summer, Voyager 1, which is farther along in its journey, crossed into this new region where the effects from the outside can be felt.

"We do believe this may be the very last layer between us and interstellar space," said chief scientist Ed Stone of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the spacecraft.

Stone presented Voyager 1's latest location at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

Voyager 1 is on track to become the first manmade object to exit the solar system. Exactly when that day will come is unknown, partly because there's no precedent.

Stone estimated Voyager 1 still has two to three years to travel before reaching the boundary that separates the solar system from the rest of space.

Scientists were surprised to discover the unexpected region at the fringes of the solar system ? a testament to the mysteries of space.

For the past year, the team has seen tantalizing clues that heralded a new space environment. The amount of high-energy cosmic rays streaming in from outside the solar system spiked. Meanwhile, the level of lower-energy particles originating from inside the solar system briefly dropped.

Because there was no change in the direction of the magnetic field lines, scientists were confident that Voyager 1 had not yet broken through. They have dubbed this new zone a kind of "magnetic highway."

The Voyagers launched 35 years ago on a mission to tour the outer planets. Though Voyager 2 ? currently 9 billion miles from the sun ? launched first, Voyager 1 is closer to leaving the solar system behind. It's more than 11 billion miles from the sun.

That's because after the duo beamed home stunning pictures of Jupiter's big red spot, Saturn's shimmering rings and their moons, Voyager 2 ventured onward to Uranus and Neptune. To this day, it's the only spacecraft to explore these two icy worlds.

Instead of following its twin, Voyager 1 used Saturn's gravity to propel itself toward the solar system's edge.

Though the cameras aboard the nuclear-powered Voyagers have long been turned off, the probes have enough power to operate the other instruments until around 2020.

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Bad Boys And Gals Present As More Attractive

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Why are we attracted to people we know are trouble. People may assume they?re drawn to danger or risk taking. But in fact, people with dark personalities may look hotter when they try harder than do those with more stable character traits. Scientists gave personality tests to more than 100 subjects to rate them for what?s called Dark Triad traits?that?s Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy. They then took different photographs of each subject. One was a so-called ?adorned condition? where the participants were turned out clothed and styled. In the ?unadorned condition? they were presented as neutrally as possible: their hair was pulled back, they changed into grey sweat pants and tee shirts, and they wore no makeup or other adornments. And they maintained neutral facial expressions. The pictures were then shown to volunteers who rated them for attractiveness. And the people who exhibited the Dark Triad traits were rated as significantly more attractive in the adorned state than in their unadorned state. But the subjects who did not have dark traits did not get an attractiveness boost from getting dressed up and coiffed. The study is the journal Social Psychological Personality and Science. [Nicholas S. Holtzman and Michael J. Strube, People With Dark Personalities Tend to Create a Physically Attractive Veneer] So before you fall for Mr. Wrong, check him out in sweatpants. ?Christie Nicholson [The above text is a transcript of this podcast]
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Geithner on 'fiscal cliff': The ball's in the GOP's court

With the fiscal cliff looming and no deal to resolve it in sight, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner expressed confidence that a compromise could be reached during my interview with him on "This Week," but said the burden is now on Republicans to help find a solution to avoid a potential economic crisis.

(More from Sunday's show HERE.)

"I actually think that we're gonna get there. I mean, you know, just inevitably gonna be a little political theater in this context," Geithner said, when asked whether Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell laughed after hearing President Obama's plan to avert the fiscal cliff. "Sometimes that's a sign of progress. Think we're actually making a little bit of progress, but we're still some distance apart."

Echoing widespread Republican rejection of the White House's proposal last week, House Speaker John Boehner said after meeting with Geithner that " the White House has to get serious."

"And at this point though - you gotta recognize that they're in a very difficult place. And they recognize they're gonna have to move on a bunch of things. But they don't know really how to do it yet. And how to get support from the - from the members on the Republican side," he said, adding later that the proverbial ball was "absolutely" in the GOP court. "And, you know, when they come back to us and say, 'We'd like you to consider this. And we'd like you to consider that,' we'll take a look at that."

Geithner - who met with top GOP leaders this week to present the White House's proposal to end the fiscal standoff - predicted support from "the business community" and "from the American people" for a deal approximating the one being offered, which reportedly includes tax hikes on the wealthy, cuts to Medicare and some stimulus spending.

However, if there is no agreement by the end of the year, the treasury secretary told me going over the cliff would be "very damaging."

"Look, there's a huge amount at stake here in this economy, George. And there's just no reason why 98 percent of Americans have to see their taxes go up because some members of Congress on the Republican side want to block tax rate increases for 2 percent of the wealthiest Americans. Remember, those tax rates, those tax cuts, cost a trillion dollars over 10 years," he said.

Geithner said the White House plan offered a "good mix" of increased taxes and spending cuts. He also added that Social Security reform would not be part of the discussion to resolve the fiscal cliff.

"We think we have a very good plan, a very good mix of tax reforms that raise a modest amount of revenue on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans, combined with very comprehensive, very well designed, very detailed savings that get us back to the point where our debt is stable and sustainable," he said. "We're prepared to, in a separate process, look at how to strengthen Social Security. But not as part of a process to reduce the other deficits the country faces," he said.

Finally, with Geithner wrapping up his time in the president's cabinet, I asked him if banking executive Jamie Dimon - who has billionaire Warren Buffett's endorsement - should be named the next treasury secretary, but Geithner declined to answer directly.

"George, the president's gonna choose somebody very talented to lead the Treasury for his next four years. And- I'm very fortunate I've been able to work with him to help solve these problems in the country over this period of time. And I'm very confident he's gonna have somebody in place- in January to succeed me," he said.

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