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• Google Removes Quot Illegal Quot Site From Its Index On Request

  3 Mar 2003 • 1 min read • freedom technology Civil Liberties post

  Seth Finkelstein has details on a troubling case about someone in Chester county in the UK complaining to google about a site run by someone calling themselves “Chester the Molester” as an …

• Truth in music on its way?

  3 Mar 2003 • 1 min read • freedom Music technology Civil Liberties post

  Senator Ron Wyden (D) from Oregon is pitching a simple idea to lead to a market-driven solution to the DRM problems being imposed on consumers: to require music companies to disclose to consumers the …

• Dell Cost Cutting With Sun To Linux Switch

  2 Mar 2003 • 1 min read • technology post

  Wow. This may help spur other cost-conscious companies (perhaps my employer too) into making the switch. “Currently, our order management, customer transaction information, manufacturing flow, …

• Vespa Madness

  2 Mar 2003 • 1 min read • NoneOfTheAbove post

  A must have: Vespa Screensaver. Windows-only, of course. Interested in buying one for me? I could handle the platinum, dragon red, or cobalt blue one. The local dealer location Or, I can at least hope …

• Worm press release template

  2 Mar 2003 • 2 min read • security post

  Keep this handy for the next MS Worm. Posted to RISKS 22.53: . [From Pete Lindstrom, Spire Security, petelind@spiresecurity.com] * Computer Worm Internet* In the wee hours of , a computer worm spread …

• Bsa Joins Ranks With Riaa In Threatening Without Cause

  28 Feb 2003 • 1 min read • security post

  The BSA (Business Software Alliance) is now taken to sending out threatening letters based on the results of a web/ftp spider search for the word “Office”. The RIAA has done similar things …

• Microsoft Spyware

  26 Feb 2003 • 1 min read • security Privacy post

  tecChannel reverse-engineered Windows Update to find that it can spy on other installed applications. It is unclear whether it actually does spy though. Although an article at The Inquirer claims as …

• More On Santa Clara E Voting

  26 Feb 2003 • 2 min read • security post

  Just heard an NPR story on the Santa Clara e-voting saga. A vote today did not decide on whether they would only go with a system with a paper ballot. Only to test such a system. The Sequoia company …

• Homeland Quot Security Quot Measures Coming Under Fire

  26 Feb 2003 • 1 min read • security post

  I heard someone talk about how in the 50’s and 60’s everyone was building bomb shelters for protection against nuclear attack and fallout but now people are being told that some tarp and …

• Now It'S 8 Million Credit Cards Stolen

  26 Feb 2003 • 1 min read • security post

  “In what is believed to be the biggest credit card hacking incident so far, Omaha-based Data Processors International, which processes transactions involving Visa, MasterCard, American Express …