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Secure programming in UNIX HOWTO
David Wheeler has put together a set of design and implementation guidelines for programming securely in several languages. The document is actually in a ton of different formats, even ones suitable …
Aclu Dmca Case Against N2h2 Is A Loss For Freedom
This is a very disturbing development and more reason why the DMCA has a chilling effect on speech and freedom to do legitimate research. “*RESEARCHER, ACLU LOSE DMCA CASE N2H2 Inc. can use the …
Quot Us Gov'T Blindly Trusts The Antivirus Industry Quot-
I love the quote below and the 15 claims about how shady the Antivirus industry is are great, especially #7, “expect applause when you release hundreds of security patches for your product each …
Low Bandwidth Application Dos Attacks
Interesting work and something that I can’t seem to get many people to pay attention to. Not all DoS attacks are bandwidth exhaustion attacks. DoS attacks can be thought of generically as …
Hussein Can Hide Wmd But Not His Money
William Raspberry from the Washington post asks a great question: “Why would Hussein, facing annihilation, take the bother to hide his chemical and biological weapons so carefully that we still …
Mci To Build New Gsm Network In Iraq
MCI gets $500 million to build a new GSM network in Iraq. There are a couple of interesting aspects to this: a. The sensible GSM network was chosen amid staunch lobbying by Qualcomm junkies to build …
Quot Politicians Lie New Study Shows Quot-
quot- Well, we definitely agree on the point, �Politicians need to be more honest about lying� Perhaps they should go for more of the honest and less on the lying at the same time. Politicians lie, …
Juxtaposition Rockets To Top Of Google Results
Juxtaposition has rocketed to the top of the Google search results for the word ‘juxtaposition’! Strange, given that Juxtaposition is nary a few months old. Sadly, a link search (for …
Interpreting 'Access' And 'Authorization' In Computer Misuse Statutes
The paper is 81 pages long but based on the abstract, it appears like important work. I hope that this will be taken to heart by policy shapers. Cybercrime’s Scope: Interpreting …
Reflections On Drm
Article on the restrictions imposed by the DRM inherent in Apple’s AAC file format. From my perspective, $1 per song is way too expensive, especially when the product you get is inferior to a …