Tuesday, August 13, 2002

Financial Institutions May Facilitate Identity Theft. The Internet eases identity theft. But what victims may find most troubling is that the accomplices may be their own financial institutions. By Matt Richtel. [New York Times: Technology] 10:36:49 PM

Toby Sackton reminds us that the U.S. imprisons more citizens than any other nation in the world. The Economist says the U.S. "is beginning to look a little like early Australia." [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment] 10:35:40 PM

Hollywood's private war for social control. Total world domination or bust [The Register] 10:21:54 PM

MS leads lobby against open source. A lobbying group called Software Choice, backed by Microsoft and other high-tech companies, hopes to stop governments from encouraging the use of open-source software. [CNET News.com] 10:19:42 PM

Digital Hub Under Attack [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 10:17:29 PM

The media titans still don't get it. Corporate America lost billions on the Net. That doesn't mean the medium has no value -- but the moguls remain clueless about where it lies. [Salon.com] 10:14:35 PM

Microsoft Explorer May Have Flaw. Microsoft's popular Internet Explorer software may have a loophole that lets attackers pose as legitimate Web site operators, potentially giving them access to users' personal information. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] 9:33:24 PM

KDE smokes MS in SSL bug fix. IE is vulnerable and in Limbo while MS tries to figure out how to explain it to the teeming millions who trust their products, in preparation for eventually fixing it. But the spin comes first. That's the meaning of Trustworthy Computing. [The Register] 7:12:52 AM

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