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Funniest video about Boston winter — e-vah — gets booted off YouTube; maker ‘bummed’

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At this point you’ll have to take my word that it was the funniest video about the #snowpocalypse ever, because the work — entitled “Facebook Statuses About the Boston Snowstorm With Sad Civil War Fiddle Music” — has fallen victim to a copyright takedown after being featured here last week.

Seems the sad Civil War fiddle music, Ashokan Farewell, was not recorded during the Civil War but recently enough to still belong to Swinging Door Music, which near as I can tell means Jay Ungar, the song’s composer.

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Computer Security Day, Forward secrecy, XP 0-day and YouTube spam – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]

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When is Computer Security Day? What can forward secrecy do for you? Can you believe there’s an 0-day in XP? Have some fun finding out the answers in this week’s 60 Second Security!
Naked Security – Sophos

Google and Microsoft tackle child abuse images with search and YouTube changes

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Two search giants, Google and Microsoft, have agreed on measures that should make it harder to search for child abuse images online on the open internet, while Google has made a groundbreaking move to identify and ferret out videos made by paedophiles on its YouTube service.
Naked Security – Sophos

Google to Microsoft on Windows Phone 8 YouTube app blocking ads: Cease and desist

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Last week, Microsoft incorporated Google Talk into Outlook and SkyDrive to allow users “to chat with friends stuck on Gmail.” Then Google CEO Larry Page criticized Microsoft for “taking advantage” of “interoperating” with Google, “but not doing the reverse.” That’s “really sad,” Page said at I/O, “And that’s not the way to make progress.
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