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First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 1 reports

Nonmetastatic Tumors Release Proteins That Condition the Body Against Cancer Spread

Image: Contributing author Dr. Randolph Watnick (Photo courtesy of ). Cancer researchers have found that certain cancers that do not metastasize, produce and secrete the protein thrombospondin-1 (Tsp-1) and, by doing so, condition distant organs to suppress ... [Published Biotech Daily - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: nonmetastatic, Tumor, monocyte, Cancer, Proteins

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 2 reports

Fight IP Theft With Fire?

Advisory group proposes draconian measures including infecting violators' computers with malware and ransomware.Corporate CounselImage: clipart.comIt's a fairly well-accepted fact that theft of intellectual property in the U.S. is a big problem. So it ... [Published Law Technology News - May 31 2013]

Entities: Ransomware, Theft, Intellectual Property, Malware

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 30 2013 - 1 reports

Internet piracy could be fought with legalized ransomware

Media companies and intellectual property rights holders face piracy issues every day over music, television and film properties, and despite their best litigious efforts, illegal content continues to find its way out to the web. So what’s the MPAA or ... [Published Infosecurity Today - May 30 2013]

Entities: Ransomware, Piracy, Collateral Damage, Spyware

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 30 2013 - 1 reports

Sony Corporation

Two copywrongs don’t make a copyright

Corporations are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. At least that’s the gist of the recently issued, less-than-mellifluously titled “Report of the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Propertty.” Compiled by former Republican ... [Published PandoDaily - May 30 2013]

Entities: Cory Doctorow, Malware, Intellectual Property, Sony Corporation

First reported May 28 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 1 reports

Hollywood Wants Right to Use Malware Against Pirates - Thinks Congress Should Start Talking About it

The almost-respectfully-sounding Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property (read: the entertainment industry) has come up with a new 84 page report (pdf) that has a few curious recommendations for Congress. Among them is the request by ... [Published Broadband Reports - May 28 2013]

Entities: Malware, Hollywood, Permissive Environment, Intellectual Property

First reported May 28 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 1 reports

Commission wants to use malware to fight piracy

a commission studying the issue of$ American intellectual property theft has made draconian suggestions about ways to stop the practice, including infecting the computers of suspected perpetrators with malware.The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual ... [Published Houston Chronicle - May 28 2013]

Entities: Malware, Piracy, Computer Hacker, Intellectual Property

First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 1 reports

Commission suggests hacking and hijacking the computers of suspected IP pirates

Should owners of intellectual property be allowed to attack anyone they suspect of pirating their goodies? That's a question that was raised last week by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property.While the commission's observation's ... [Published PC World - May 27 2013]

Entities: Computer Hacking, Computer Hacker, Intellectual Property, Collateral Damage

First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 4 reports

IP theft commission wants to use malware to catch pirates

The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property has submitted a report to the US Congress proposing anti-piracy measures and is considering the government-sanctioned use of ransomware.According to studios and publishers, piracy constitutes ... [Published CNET.com.au - May 28 2013]

Entities: Malware, Deterrence, US Congress, Piracy

First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 1 reports

U.S. scientists discover proteins affect cancer spread

U.S. and Norwegian researchers identified a five-amino acid fragment that reduces metastatic spread of prostate, breast and lung cancer in mouse models. Randolph Watnick of Boston Children's Hospital, Vivek Mittal at Weill Cornell Medical College in New ... [Published Individual.com - May 27 2013]

Entities: Tumor, monocyte, Protein

First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 27 2013 - 1 reports

US Copyright Group Recommends Legalizing Rootkits To Fight IP Theft

On any given day in the United States you will find a number of really, really terrible ideas being floated as smart decisions. Flying to Hawaii to give birth in the ocean surrounded by dolphins. A drunk man repeatedly directing traffic in midtown Manhattan. ... [Published Hot Hardware - May 27 2013]

Entities: Rootkit, Theft, Piracy

First reported May 26 2013 - Updated May 27 2013 - 1 reports

US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits, spyware, ransomware and trojans to attack pirates!

The hilariously named "Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property" has finally released its report, an 84-page tome that's pretty bonkers. But amidst all that crazy, there's a bit that stands out as particularly insane: a proposal ... [Published Boing Boing - May 26 2013]

Entities: Ransomware, Rootkit, Spyware, Trojan Horse Malware

First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 27 2013 - 1 reports

Woolwich suspect arrested in Kenya in 2010

Michael Adebolajo remains in hospitalWoolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo was arrested by Kenyan authorities three years ago as they feared he was attempting to join an al-Qaeda-linked group, the country's anti-terrorism police have said.Mr Adebolajo, ... [Published RTE Online - May 27 2013]

Entities: Woolwich (United Kingdom), Kenya, Government of Kenya, Michael Adebolajo, MI5

Quotes

"The size of this peptide makes it ideal for drug development," said Dr. Watnick. "It is about as large as tyrosine kinase inhibitors such as Gleevec or Iressa, and could potentially be formulated in multiple ways for different types of cancer. I could also foresee using a therapeutic agent like this peptide as an adjuvant therapy, for example just as we now use chemotherapy or hormonal therapy for breast cancer."

Nonmetastatic Tumors Release Proteins That Condition the Body Against Cancer Spread [Published Biotech Daily - Jun 04 2013]

"Not everything in the report is absurd," McSherry said. "But the recommendations undermine the parts of the report that are credible."

Fight IP Theft With Fire? [Published Law Technology News - May 31 2013]

...But the commission did say that it has its misgivings: "The commission is not ready to endorse this recommendation because of the larger questions of collateral damage caused by computer attacks, the dangers of misuse of legal hacking authorities, and the potential for nondestructive countermeasures such as beaconing, tagging and self-destructing that are currently in development to stymie hackers without the potential for destructive collateral damage."

Internet piracy could be fought with legalized ransomware [Published Infosecurity Today - May 30 2013]

...But he's wrong in stating, "Now they've demanded that Congress legalize an extortion tool invented by organized criminals." Who are the "they" Doctorow refers to? The commission is made up of foreign-policy and intelligence experts without any obvious Hollywood links

Don't Believe the Hype About Hollywood Malware [Published Tech News Daily - May 29 2013]

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IP theft commission wants to use malware to cat... [Published CNET.com.au - May 28 2013]
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Woolwich suspect arrested in Kenya in 2010 [Published RTE Online - May 27 2013]
U.S. scientists discover proteins affect cancer... [Published Individual.com - May 27 2013]

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Maher rips Pat Kennedy’s anti-pot crusade: ‘Thi... [Published Raw Story - Jun 15 2013] Noted marijuana enthusiast Bill Maher had little patience on Real Time on Friday for former Rep. Patrick Kennedy’s (D-RI) campaign against legalizing the drug.“It just seems so un-Kennedy like to be against what I said a couple of weeks ago was the new ...
5 Myths About Military Sexual Assault [Published Think Progress - Jun 07 2013] (Credit: AP) On Tuesday, the Senate Armed Services Committee convened a hearing on sexual assault in the military. The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Judge Advocate Generals of the Armed Forces testified, discussing proposals to address this problem. ...
Fact-Checking Governor Cuomo [Published The Corner on National Review Online - Jun 04 2013] Andrew Cuomo has an op-ed in the Huffington Post today in support of his Women's Equality Act. He puts forth a series of facts that aren't quite as honest as advertised: Fact: the Women's Equality Act protects a woman's right to choose as defined ...
Countering Terrorism in Britain and France, by ... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Jun 04 2013] Have you ever wondered why we’re stuck with the radical cleric Abu Qatada? It’s a question the last four Home Secretaries will have asked as they battled, and failed, to deport him. Now Theresa May is learning just how stubborn the old curmudgeon can ...
Dumb Idea Or Dumbest Idea: Letting Companies Us... [Published Techdirt - May 28 2013] We already did a post exploring the ridiculous background and bad assumptions of the so-called IP Commission Report , but we're going to explore some of the "recommendations" of the report as well. In that first post, we noted that the basis, assumptions ...