[infowarrior] - NYT: Internet Users Thinking Twice Before a Search

NYTimes.com January 25, 2006 Internet Users Thinking Twice Before a Search By KATIE HAFNER Kathryn Hanson, a former telecommunications engineer who lives in Oakland, Calif., was looking at BBC News online last week when she came across an item about a British politician who had resigned over a

[infowarrior] - The erosion of anonymous Internet speech

The erosion of anonymous Internet speech By Eric J. Sinrod http://news.com.com/The+erosion+of+anonymous+Internet+speech/2010-1028_3-603 0721.html Story last modified Wed Jan 25 04:00:00 PST 2006 The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution safeguards freedom of speech. The right to speak freely

[infowarrior] - Privacy for People Who Don't Show Their Navels

Privacy for People Who Don't Show Their Navels By JONATHAN D. GLATER http://tinyurl.com/72mp3 IT may be easy to forget that there are people who want to remain anonymous on the Web while the online world is full of those who happily post pictures of themselves and their navels for all to see.

[infowarrior] - Well-done.....Georgetown student protest Gonzales speech

http://insomnia.livejournal.com/652389.html?nc=2style=mine Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up

[infowarrior] - Sexy booth babes face fines at video game show

it¹s ok to shoot hookers in San Andreas, but bikini-clad women in a convention center is a definite no-no.. Sexy booth babes face fines at video game show Tue Jan 24, 1:58 PM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060124/tc_nm/media_videogames_dc LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The video game industry's

[infowarrior] - High-Def Forced To Down-Convert

From: Monty Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] HIGH-DEF FORCED TO DOWN-CONVERT In deal reached by eight-company consortium By Paul Sweeting 1/23/2006 Some buyers of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc players might not get everything they bargained for. In a deal reached this week after tense negotiations, the

[infowarrior] - Analog Hole Bill Would Impose a Secret Law

Analog Hole Bill Would Impose a Secret Law Monday January 23, 2006 by Ed Felten http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=958 If you¹ve been reading here lately, you know that I¹m no fan of the Sensenbrenner/Conyers analog hole bill. The bill would require almost all analog video devices to implement

[infowarrior] - CRS legal analysis on PATRIOT Act reauth

(c/o Secrecy News) PATRIOT ACT REAUTHORIZATION: A LEGAL ANALYSIS (CRS) The existing controversy over reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act -- portions of which will sunset if they are not renewed -- acquired a new dimension with the disclosure last month of an NSA domestic surveillance

[infowarrior] - Debunking the WMF backdoor

Debunking the WMF backdoor Thomas C. Greene, 2006-01-23http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/382?ref=rss Claims that the WMF vulnerability was an intentional backdoor into Windows systems makes for an interesting conspiracy theory, but doesn't fit with the facts. Contrary to a recent rumor

[infowarrior] - Bounty: Dual-Boot an IntelMac

http://winxponmac.com/The%20Contest.html My MacBook is shipping on the 15th of February. I told my boss that this would replace my IBM desktop and I could boot Windows XP on it. I am still confident it can be done. I am pledging $100 of my own money and offering anyone else who would like the

[infowarrior] - Intel Macs only one fourth, not four times faster - report

Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/01/23/intel_macs_25pc_faster/ Intel Macs only one fourth, not four times faster - report By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Published Monday 23rd January 2006 19:41 GMT Comment Don't say we didn't warn you. But when the world's last great computer

[infowarrior] - UPN, WB to Combine to Form New Network

UPN, WB to Combine to Form New Network http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/24/AR2006012400 657.html By SETH SUTEL The Associated Press Tuesday, January 24, 2006; 12:01 PM NEW YORK -- Two small, struggling television networks, UPN and WB, will merge to form a new network

[infowarrior] - Verizon Slapped for Crippling Bluetooth

Verizon Slapped for Crippling Bluetooth http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/verizon-slapped-for-crippling-bluet ooth-150376.php Verizon has been getting weasely with some of its customers in California who bought its Motorola v710 Bluetooth-³capable² phone on or before January 31, 2005.

[infowarrior] - White House on PR path over domestic surveillance

White House on PR path over domestic surveillance By James Gerstenzang, Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times; Times staff writers Peter Wallsten and Greg Miller contributed to this report Published January 22, 2006 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0601220429jan22,1,1331353

[infowarrior] - Supreme Court Rejects BlackBerry Appeal

Supreme Court Rejects BlackBerry Appeal http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/23/AR2006012300 512_pf.html By Yuki Noguchi Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 23, 2006; 1:00 PM The Supreme Court today rejected a petition from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion

[infowarrior] - Yahoo, MS: No personal data surrendered

(I wonder if Google's resistance hadn't made frontpage news, if these companies would even be saying anything right now...rf) Yahoo, MS: No personal data surrendered http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060123-031414-2463r WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Yahoo and Microsoft say they

[infowarrior] - Text of GEN Hayden remarks on NSA spying

23 January 2006 Source: http://www.dni.gov/release_letter_012306.html REMARKS BY GENERAL MICHAEL V. HAYDEN PRINCIPAL DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY ADDRESS TO THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB WHAT AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE ESPECIALLY THE

[infowarrior] - The Recording Industry's Confusion

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060123/france_music_downloads.html?.v=1 But for record companies, the growth of legitimate downloads and the partial victory against piracy have come at a price. Many in the industry are concerned that the scramble to license out catalog for digital sales has done

[infowarrior] - Intel Core Duo problems, so quickly after release?

http://geek.com/news/geeknews/2006Jan/bch20060123034350.htm Today is January 23, 2006, making it less than 20 days since the Core Duo was officially released, and T-minus ?? days until Core Solo is officially released. Yet, if we turn to Intel's Errata documentation for the Core Duo and Core

[infowarrior] - Windows Vista device drivers to require digital signatures

Digital Signatures for Kernel Modules on x64-based Systems Running Windows Vista Updated: January 19, 2006 ** http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/64bit/kmsigning.mspx ** For Windows Vista and later versions of the Windows family of operating systems, kernel-mode software must

[infowarrior] - Forgot What You Searched For? Google Didn't

Forgot What You Searched For? Google Didn't By Leslie Walker Saturday, January 21, 2006; D01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/20/AR2006012001 799_pf.html The Justice Department may have done us all a big favor by issuing subpoenas to Internet search engines to find

[infowarrior] - Cringley on Wiretapping: Hitler on Line One

Hitler on Line One There's a Long History of Intercepting Foreign Communications, and Some of It May Have Been Legal http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060119.html By Robert X. Cringely Who is listening-in on your phone calls? Probably nobody. Right now, there is huge interest in phone

[infowarrior] - In the interest of helping journalists cover Oracle..

(c/o Jericho) http://www.osvdb.org/blog/?p=86 In the interest of helping journalists cover Oracle.. perhaps they should just move to a templated form to save time? --- By [YOUR_NAME] [YOUR TITLE], [YOUR PUBLICATION] [DATE] Oracle released on [DAY_OF_WEEK] fixes for a [LONG/HUGE/MONSTROUS]

[infowarrior] - Senators threaten new Net porn crackdown

Senators threaten new Net porn crackdown By Declan McCullagh http://news.com.com/Senators+threaten+new+Net+porn+crackdown/2100-1028_3-602 9005.html Story last modified Thu Jan 19 16:44:00 PST 2006 WASHINGTON--U.S. senators on Thursday blasted what they called an explosion in Internet

[infowarrior] - DRM Becomes a Balancing Act

DRM Becomes a Balancing Act By Ed Sutherland http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3578746 Companies walk a tightrope when it comes to protecting copyrighted work with Digital Rights Management (DRM), according to a new report. Sony's recent DRM fiasco highlighted the tightrope

[infowarrior] - Account Hijackings Force LiveJournal Changes

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/ Account Hijackings Force LiveJournal Changes LiveJournal, an online community that boasts nearly 2 million active members, on Thursday announced sitewide changes for users logging into their accounts -- changes prompted by a hacker group's successful

[infowarrior] - How to Foil Search Engine Snoops

How to Foil Search Engine Snoops http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,70051-0.html By Ryan Singel | Also by this reporter On Thursday, The Mercury News reported that the Justice Department has subpoenaed search-engine records in its defense of the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. Google,

[infowarrior] - New Senate Broadcast Flag Bill Would Freeze Fair Use

New Senate Broadcast Flag Bill Would Freeze Fair Use January 20, 2006 http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004340.php Draft legislation making the rounds in the U.S. Senate gives us a preview of the MPAA and RIAA's next target: your television and radio. You say you want the power to time-shift

[infowarrior] - NSA Guide to Sanitizing Word and PDF documents

(c/o Secrecy News) The National Security Agency has issued new guidance to assist officials in redacting (censoring) documents in Microsoft Word format and producing unclassified Adobe Portable Document (PDF) files without inadvertently disclosing sensitive information. MS Word is used

[infowarrior] - Security Firm Offers Ad Space In Bug Report

Security Firm Offers Ad Space In Bug Report http://internetweek.cmp.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=177102488 By Gregg Keizer Courtesy of TechWeb News An anonymous security researcher who tried to sell an Excel vulnerability on eBay last month now stands to make more than $600 in an auction

[infowarrior] - NSA Guide to Sanitizing Word and PDF documents

(c/o Secrecy News) The National Security Agency has issued new guidance to assist officials in redacting (censoring) documents in Microsoft Word format and producing unclassified Adobe Portable Document (PDF) files without inadvertently disclosing sensitive information. MS Word is used

[infowarrior] - Republican group pays $100 to spy on college professors

Rightwing group offers students $100 to spy on professors http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1689653,00.html?gusrc=rss Dan Glaister in Los Angeles Thursday January 19, 2006 The Guardian It is the sort of invitation any poverty-stricken student would find hard to resist. Do you have a

[infowarrior] - In Threat to Internet's Clout, Some Are Starting Alternatives

(c/o Scott B) Snipped from: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113763907007950547.html?mod=todays_us_page_o ne In Threat to Internet's Clout Some Are Starting Alternatives By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 19, 2006; Page A1 More than a decade after the

[infowarrior] - FBI publishes 2005 computer crime survey

FBI publishes 2005 computer crime survey Kelly Martin 2006-01-18 http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/109?ref=rss The FBI has published their 2005 computer crime survey, with responses from over 2,000 public and private organizations located across four U.S. states. The survey, published today

[infowarrior] - Google Rebuffs Feds on Search Requests

Google Rebuffs Feds on Search Requests http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011901 453_pf.html By MICHAEL LIEDTKE The Associated Press Thursday, January 19, 2006; 8:07 PM SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at what

[infowarrior] - OpEd: What Are They Doing With All Our Data?

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-donohue0117.artjan17,0,992533.s tory?coll=hc-headlines-oped What Are They Doing With All Our Data? Laura K. Donohue January 17 2006 Congress will soon hold hearings on the National Security Agency's domestic spying program, secretly authorized by

[infowarrior] - JSG: Mass Spying Means Gross Errors

Mass Spying Means Gross Errors http://www.wired.com/news/columns/1,70035-0.html By Jennifer Granick | Also by this reporter The United States government either currently has, or soon will have, new technology that makes mass surveillance possible. The next question for citizens and other policy

[infowarrior] - New Firefox feature eases spying on users

New Firefox feature eases spying on users http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/darin/archives/009594.html A new proposed feautre in Firefox/Mozilla automates a common web-linking technique in a way that raises grave concerns about user-privacy. A common practice for some web-sites is to send people

[infowarrior] - FW: Final Call for Abstracts: New Geographies of Surveillance

Title: FW: Final Call for Abstracts: New Geographies of Surveillance Final Call for Abstracts Royal Geographical Society / Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference 2006, 30 August - 1st September 2006 at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London New Geographies

[infowarrior] - Children can¹t ³opt out² of Pentagon recruitment database

Mining for kids: Children can¹t ³opt out² of Pentagon recruitment database http://www.vermontguardian.com/national/012006/Pentagon.shtml By Kathryn Casa | Vermont Guardian posted January 17, 2006 Parents cannot remove their children¹s names from a Pentagon database that includes highly

[infowarrior] - Feds aim for more data sharing by terrorist screeners

CNET News.comhttp://www.news.com/ Feds aim for more data sharing by terrorist screeners By Anne Broache http://news.com.com/Feds+aim+for+more+data+sharing+by+terrorist+screeners/21 00-7348_3-6027824.html Story last modified Tue Jan 17 15:04:00 PST 2006 WASHINGTON--The Bush administration

[infowarrior] - Felten: CGMS-A + VEIL = SDMI ?

CGMS-A + VEIL = SDMI ? Tuesday January 17, 2006 by Ed Felten http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=955 I wrote last week about the Analog Hole Bill, which would require almost all devices that handle analog video signals to implement a particular anti-copying scheme called CGMS-A + VEIL. Today I

[infowarrior] - Hey, Baby Bells: Information Still Wants to Be Free

Hey, Baby Bells: Information Still Wants to Be Free http://www.freepress.net/news/13358 From New York Times, January 15, 2006 By Randall Stross At the top of my wish list for next year¹s Consumer Electronics Show is this: the introduction of broadband service across the country that is as up to

[infowarrior] - Text of Al Gore's MLK Speech

Congressman Barr and I have disagreed many times over the years, but we have joined together today with thousands of our fellow citizens-Democrats and Republicans alike-to express our shared concern that America's Constitution is in grave danger. In spite of our differences over ideology and

[infowarrior] - Good article on tech overload in our lives

(I agree w/this article 100% and do some of the very same things as those mentionedrf) One Answer to Too Much Tech: Sorry, I'm Not Here By Jose Antonio Vargas Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 16, 2006; C01

[infowarrior] - Researcher: Sony BMG rootkit still widespread

Researcher: Sony BMG rootkit still widespread Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-16 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11369 WASHINGTON D.C. -- Hundreds of thousands of networks across the globe, including many military and government networks, appear to still contain PCs with the controversial

[infowarrior] - Spy Agency Data After Sept. 11 Led F.B.I. to Dead Ends

January 17, 2006 Spy Agency Data After Sept. 11 Led F.B.I. to Dead Ends (NYTimes) By LOWELL BERGMAN, ERIC LICHTBLAU, SCOTT SHANE and DON VAN NATTA Jr. http://tinyurl.com/aldyu This article is by Lowell Bergman, Eric Lichtblau, Scott Shane and Don Van Natta Jr. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 - In the

[infowarrior] - Why's it so hard to get 'Buffy' on my iPod?

Why's it so hard to get 'Buffy' on my iPod? By Declan McCullagh http://news.com.com/Whys+it+so+hard+to+get+Buffy+on+my+iPod/2100-1041_3-6026 753.html Story last modified Fri Jan 13 03:58:00 PST 2006 SAN FRANCISCO--Buying an iPod is easy. Filling it with video turns out to be much more

[infowarrior] - USDA Using Satellites to Monitor Farmers

USDA Using Satellites to Monitor Farmers http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060113/D8F3Q1F84.html Jan 13, 7:44 AM (ET) By ROXANA HEGEMAN WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Satellites have monitored crop conditions around the world for decades, helping traders predict futures prices in commodities markets and

[infowarrior] - First usable version of Chandler free/open PIM is out

(c/o boingboing) First usable version of Chandler free/open PIM is out Chandler is a free and open personal organizer being developed by the Open Source Applications Foundation, with design by Andy Hertzfeld of the original MacOS GUI team. Eventually it's meant to integrate email as well as

[infowarrior] - Some Safety and Reliability Questions About DRM

Some Safety and Reliability Questions About DRM ~ by Victor Yodaiken President and CEO, FSMLabs http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2006084253232 Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies are supposed to protect digitized ³content², like movies and musical performances from being

[infowarrior] - National uniform driver's license law is 'nightmare'

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2006-01-12-uniform-drivers-lice nse_x.htm National uniform driver's license law is 'nightmare' By Brian Bergstein, Associated Press An anti-terrorism law creating a national standard for all driver's licenses by 2008 isn't upsetting just civil

[infowarrior] - Good article on time to patch by OS vendors

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/01/a_timeline_of_m.html Brian Krebs on Computer Security A Time to Patch A few months back while researching a Microsoft patch from way back in 2003, I began to wonder whether anyone had ever conducted a longitudinal study of Redmond's patch

[infowarrior] - Symantec provides hiding place for hackers

Symantec provides hiding place for hackers By Joris Evers http://news.com.com/Symantec+provides+hiding+place+for+hackers/2100-1002_3-6 026203.html Story last modified Wed Jan 11 17:20:00 PST 2006 Symantec has released an update to its popular Norton SystemWorks to fix a security problem that

[infowarrior] - Geocode capability increases on Mac OSX

(c/o D) Yesterday both Google and Garmin announced support for OSX 10.4. Google announced Google Earth, and Garmin is now (or will soon be) providing hardware support for their GPS devices. The announcements are not buried on their sites either. Both sites have the announcements prominently

[infowarrior] - Zero-day holiday

Zero-day holiday Kelly Martin, http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/377?ref=rss A few hundred million Windows XP machines lay vulnerable on the Web today, a week after a zero-day exploit was discovered. Meanwhile, new approaches and ideas from the academic world - that focus exclusively on

[infowarrior] - Symantec Caught in Norton 'Rootkit' Flap

http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=169032,00.asp Symantec Caught in Norton 'Rootkit' Flap January 11, 2006 By Ryan Naraine Symantec Corp. has fessed up to using a rootkit-type feature in Norton SystemWorks that could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place malicious

[infowarrior] - Verizon Prevents Treo Use As 3G Modem

Verizon Prevents Treo Use As 3G Modem http://www.mobilepipeline.com/175803792?cid=rssfeed_pl_mwp By James M. Turner Mobile Pipeline So you just bought a Windows Mobile Treo with EV-DO service and you want to use it as a modem for your laptop? Forget it. Verizon Wireless says you must buy a

[infowarrior] - Schneier: Anonymity Won't Kill the Internet

Anonymity Won't Kill the Internet By Bruce Schneier | http://www.wired.com/news/columns/1,7-0.html In a recent essay, Kevin Kelly warns of the dangers of anonymity. It's OK in small doses, he maintains, but too much of it is a problem: (I)n every system that I have seen where anonymity

[infowarrior] - Surge in Sale of Disposable Cell Phones May Have Terror Link

Surge in Sale of Disposable Cell Phones May Have Terror Link Phones Can Be Difficult or Impossible to Track; Large Quantities Purchased in California, Texas By BRIAN ROSS and RICHARD ESPOSITO http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=1499905 Jan. 12, 2006 ‹ - Federal agents have launched an

[infowarrior] - OpEd: You're being watched ...

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-donohue12jan12,1,3860 067.story From the Los Angeles Times You're being watched ... Efforts to collect data on Americans go far beyond the NSA's domestic spying program. By Laura K. Donohue January 12, 2006 CONGRESS WILL soon hold hearings

[infowarrior] - FW: DHS Your Tax Dollars

(via attrition) http://www.osvdb.org/blog/?p=83 DHS Your Tax Dollars http://news.com.com/Homeland+Security+helps+secure+open-source+code/2100-100 2_3-6025579.html Through its Science and Technology Directorate, the department has given $1.24 million in funding to Stanford University,

[infowarrior] - Microsoft's FAT file system patent upheld

Microsoft's file system patent upheld By Anne Broache http://news.com.com/Microsofts+file+system+patent+upheld/2100-1012_3-6025447 .html Story last modified Tue Jan 10 14:09:00 PST 2006 Two patents covering one of Microsoft's main Windows file-storage systems are valid after all, federal patent

[infowarrior] - Homeland Security opening private mail

(Note: The USG always had that authority, but this is the first time I've seen it used by DHSrf) Homeland Security opening private mail Retired professor confused, angered when letter from abroad is opened By Brock N. Meeks Chief Washington correspondent MSNBC Updated: 5:55 p.m. ET Jan. 6,

[infowarrior] - Mobile ringtone biz goes off tune as piracy creeps in

Mobile ringtone biz goes off tune as piracy creeps in http://www.blonnet.com/2006/01/09/stories/2006010903370100.htm Nithya Subramanian Thomas K. Thomas New Delhi , Jan. 8 PIRACY is almost synonymous with the music industry and now it is creeping into the flourishing mobile ringtone segment.

[infowarrior] - Qwest Says It Can Charge You If Your Computer Spams Anyone

(c/o IP list) From: Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: January 6, 2006 10:30:22 PM EST Not long ago, Qwest tried to foist upon its customers an agreement allowing the details of their telephone calls -- Customer Proprietary Network Information, or CPNI -- to be sold to all comers. Well, it's

[infowarrior] - TV to iPod, PSP conversion tools spill onto the market

Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/09/faultline_ipod_psp_content/ TV to iPod, PSP conversion tools spill onto the market By Faultline Published Monday 9th January 2006 11:22 GMT It¹s been difficult to predict how Apple will continue to develop the video iPod, given that it had

[infowarrior] - IRS Said to Improperly Restrict Access

IRS Said to Improperly Restrict Access http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5532353,00.html Sunday January 8, 2006 10:02 PM By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration has illegally stopped making public detailed tax enforcement data,

[infowarrior] - Slate: Microsoft vs. Computer Security

Microsoft comes out with a new operating system, says Brian Martin, an independent computer security consultant. It is still built on the same legacy code, it is still written without adhering to secure coding practices, it is still thrown to the masses without adequate security testing. Richard Forno

[infowarrior] - Adobe snaps up document security tools

Adobe snaps up document security tools By Alorie Gilbert http://news.com.com/Adobe+snaps+up+document+security+tools/2100-1012_3-60246 74.html Story last modified Mon Jan 09 11:22:00 PST 2006 Adobe Systems is adding new document protection mechanisms to its business workflow software with an

[infowarrior] - More on Google's friendlier DRM for video

http://thomashawk.com/2006/01/ces-day-four-google-video-kinder-more.html The big Google distinction between how they will offer their pay downloads vs. the other guys is that Google is going to actually let you download your paid download files on to your computer and then allow you total

[infowarrior] - Microsoft to hunt for new species of Windows bug

Microsoft to hunt for new species of Windows bug By Joris Evers http://news.com.com/Microsoft+to+hunt+for+new+species+of+Windows+bug/2100-10 02_3-6024778.html Story last modified Mon Jan 09 12:48:00 PST 2006 Microsoft plans to scour its code to look for flaws similar to a recent serious Windows

[infowarrior] - Even more -- More on Google's friendlier DRM for video

-- Forwarded Message From: matthew patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:32:03 -0800 (PST) IMO it makes a whole LOT more sense to use totally standard encoding schemes but just encrypt the file. Of course nothing is ever not going to get broken but seems to me a 'loadable module'

[infowarrior] - Security flaws on the rise, questions remain

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/09/computer_security_flaws_on_the_rise/ Security flaws on the rise, questions remain By Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus Published Monday 9th January 2006 21:38 GMT After three years of modest or no gains, the number of publicly reported vulnerabilities jumped in

[infowarrior] - Myspace.Com Users Revolt Against Fox

Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch By Nicholas Wapshott in New York Published: 08 January 2006 http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article337149.ece Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of

[infowarrior] - Microsoft blocking MP3s on Verizon Wireless phones?

Microsoft blocking MP3s on Verizon Wireless phones? http://engadget.com/2006/01/07/microsoft-blocking-mp3s-on-verizon-wireless-p hones/ Posted Jan 7th 2006 11:27AM by Barb Dybwad So there seems to be some fallout from Verizon's music download service -- users who choose to upgrade their handsets

[infowarrior] - Link to CRS Report on Domestic Surveillance

Jan 5, 2006 Presidential Authority to Conduct Warrantless Electronic Surveillance to Gather Foreign Intelligence Information http://www.opencrs.com/document/M20060105 You are a subscribed member of the infowarrior list. Visit www.infowarrior.org for list information or to unsubscribe. This

[infowarrior] - NAS warns DOD about loss of PCB industries

(c/o Anonymous) http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/06/0104/art1.html National Academies of Sciences Panel Tells DOD It Is Vulnerable To Loss Of Circuit Board Industry; Half The PCB Industry Workforce Has Vanished BY RICHARD McCORMACK [EMAIL PROTECTED] The rapid decline of the U.S. printed

[infowarrior] - For Mac users.... TechTool Protege offers Mac utilities on flash drive

(This product, on CD, has saved my systems numerous times..rf) TechTool Protege offers Mac utilities on flash drive Peter Cohen - MacCentralFri Jan 6, 7:54 AM ET Micromat Inc. has introduced TechTool Protege, a new Mac OS X troubleshooting and diagnostic tool stored on a bootable 1GB

[infowarrior] - Other government Web sites follow visitors' movements

Government Web sites follow visitors' movements By Declan McCullagh http://news.com.com/Government+Web+sites+follow+visitors+movements/2100-1028 _3-6018702.html Story last modified Thu Jan 05 04:00:00 PST 2006 Dozens of federal agencies are tracking visits to U.S. government Web sites in

[infowarrior] - Open Letter on the Interpretation of ³ Vulnerability Statistics²

http://www.osvdb.org/blog/?p=80 Steve Christey (CVE Editor) wrote an open letter to several mailing lists regarding the nature of vulnerability statistics. What he said is spot on, and most of what I would have pointed out had my previous rant been more broad, and not a direct attack on a

[infowarrior] - Who Killed PayPal?

(old but relevant.thanks to CL for the posting..rf) August 27, 2005 http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4405 Who Killed PayPal? by Radley Balko Radley Balko is a policy analyst for the Cato Institute. The PayPal Wars: Battles With eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet

[infowarrior] - Google to Offer DRM'd Video Downloads

Note the last sentence of the article: Google has developed its own digital-rights-management software to protect downloaded videos from piracy. one can only imagine what that might be...rf Google to Offer Video Downloads, Software That Rivals Microsoft's By KEVIN J. DELANEY and NICK

[infowarrior] - Security flaws on the rise, questions remain

Security flaws on the rise, questions remain Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-05 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11367?ref=rss After three years of modest or no gains, the number of publicly reported vulnerabilities jumped in 2005, boosted by easy-to-find bugs in Web applications. Yet,

[infowarrior] - MS Advance Patch for WMF exploit

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/advance.mspx Important Information for Thursday 5 January 2006 Microsoft announced that it would release a security update to help protect customers from exploitations of a vulnerability in the Windows Meta File (WMF) area of code in the

[infowarrior] - Survey on Vulnerability Disclosure: Request for Participation

Greetings -- As part of my doctoral studies, I am seeking community input regarding how secrecy and openness can be balanced in the analysis and alerting of security vulnerabilities to protect critical national infrastructures. To answer this question, my thesis is investigating: 1.How

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Windows rootkits of 2005, part three James Butler, Sherri Sparks, http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1854?ref=rss The third and final article in this series explores five different rootkit detection techniques used to discover Windows rootkit deployments. Additionally, nine different tools

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Florida may sue Sony, too http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004292.php Charlie Crist, the Florida Attorney General, has joined several other states in investigating the Sony DRM debacle: Allegation or issue being investigated: It has been reported that certain Sony music cd¹s

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. Cyber Tactics: Attacking Data Integrity Cyber warriors say launching overt attacks on an enemy's computers isn't always the best or most successful tactic. Washington-based cyber security consultant Richard Forno describes another, called data integrity, that can be devastating to an adversary

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Go Back to Afghanistan, Hussy! By Jennifer Granick http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69955-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_3 My last column on the president's illegal wiretaps provoked the most responses I've received since starting Circuit Court. Circuit Court columnist Jennifer Granick Circuit

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