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The ship has not sunk yet! Pirate Bay's IPreadtor service has come out of Beta and launched for users yesterday. Back in March of 2009, we wrote an article about Pirate Bay launching a new offensive against law enforcement's prying eyes on netizens. Yesterday Pirate Bay completed its iPreadtor project and is now offering the service to anyone. The iPreadtor essentially is a VPN service which deploys between your machine and the internet, providing completely secure and encrypted transmission of traffic, meaning no one can see or check what you are downloading. A lot of Netizens who were afraid of downloading torrents from Pirate Bay and any other sites can now do so without being paranoid.

Todays news article on computer forensics is about hacking encrypted USB thumb drives. The encryption being talked about is AES 256 hardware encryption, which til date use to be considered a very reputable and safe standard in the world of digital and computer forensics. You must have seen online advertisements about the most secure hardware based AES 256 bit encrypted USB thumb drives from popular brand names such as Kingston and SanDisk, these are the ones that have been found to be completely vulnerable by a computer forensic company based off Germany called SySS. Their tests show a major design vulnerability that can decrypt the present information on the thumb drive.

There is a new standard in the USB world called USB 3.0, in this article we will discuss the difference between USB 2,0 and USB 3.0. Universal Serial Bus or USB, as you all know is the most popular connection standard between devices and a host controller (usually located on a computer). USB has undergone many revisions and the latest USB hardware spec to come out is version 3.0, after version 1 and 2. Everything from your flash drives, mice, keyboard, PDAs, Game Consoles, GPS chargers, cell phone connectors and chargers,  GPS devices and bluetooth head sets all use USB in one form or the other. So lets see whats the differences between the most popular USB 2 and just out USB 3 standard are

And you thought you were afraid of the full body scanners at the Airport Security, wait till you see the iPhone NudeIt App which can undress a dressed person in no time!. iPhone App developers are getting more creative everyday and now there is an App for iPhone which can turn anyone who is fully dressed into semi dressed or completely undressed! That's right, you heard right, the folks at Preslite.com have come up with an unbelievable technology, which can take a picture or video of a person fully dressed and through its augmented reality algorithm turn the person without clothes. The photo and video effects are completely realistic and in real time

The reason behind the large scale outage suffered by BlackBerry usage is being blamed on two new versions of BlackBerry Messengers. According to Bloomberg anyone who had downloaded the upgraded BlackBerry Messenger since Dec 14th would have suffered the outage yesterday. The outage was large scale effecting customers all over North and South America. Blackberry is the largest selling Smart Phone and is manufactured by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM). Any such service disruption comes as a major setback in a tightly competed smart phone market with big players such as Apple's iPhone and Google's Android