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CNET News Daily Podcast: Hacker conference proves nothing is private on the Net

Reporter Elinor Mills checks in to tell us what she learned at the Last HOPE conference about security.

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As the Last HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference comes to an end in New York, CNET News' Elinor Mills gives the lowdown on what she learned from 3,000 hackers about lock-picking, private investigation, and the security of consumer electronics.

According to new reports, Carl Icahn will be doing his bidding inside the Yahoo executive board come August, with no specific statements that he'll try to sell the search business to Microsoft.

This weekend's megahit, The Dark Knight, is up on the Web and it may be a sign that smaller Web sites are flying under the radar when it comes to copyright infringement.


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