Document: HP backs off DMCA threat.  Hewlett-Packard abandons legal threats it made against security analysts who publicized flaws in the company's software. Read the company's statement here.  [CNET News.com] 

Karl Martino:  "Damn! If this doesn't tug your soul nothing will.  Shannon I gotta tell ya, every pluck of that guitar, and your voice.... powerful stuff.  Everybody go listen now :)..."

I agree with Karl totally - go listen to "Less Like You" - it's sweet!  So sweet, it's inspired me to create feature.indiemusic.  Thank you Shannon (and Karl, too, for pointing to her). 

Spam suit rings on Sprint.  Sprint Communications is facing a lawsuit in Utah alleging that it sent unsolicited commercial messages in violation of a recently enacted state statute.  [CNET News.com]

It charges that Sprint breached Utah law, which requires commercial e-mail to include legitimate contact information, valid means to avoid future messages, and a subject line containing the prefix “ADV.”

Such regulation doesn't seem unreasonable to me.  I firmly believe that national legislation calling for the same requirements would have a real positive effect on the problem of SPAM.  Class-action lawsuits like this one give consumers a chance to fight back.  But, look what they're up against:

In a rare twist, Sprint requested that the court require the plaintiff, Gillman, to turn over his hard drive in the discovery process. Instead, the judge ordered Sprint and the plaintiff to save all electronic records that may have be relevant to the case.

"The Sprint motion appeared to be a retaliatory attempt to bully and intimidate our client," said Denver Snuffer, partner at Nelson Snuffer Dahle & Paulsen, which filed the suit. "There are an estimated 1.4 million Internet users in Utah who may have received Sprint spam, and to ask that many people to literally remove and deliver their hard drives to Sprint is ridiculous.

Really!  Kudos to the states of Washington and Utah for passing real anti-spam legislation.  Oh, yeah - I support CAUCE. 

CNN:  Richard Clarke, the top computer security adviser to President Bush, encouraged attendees at the Black Hat conference to find and reveal holes in software.  [Workbench] 

The Shifted Librarian:  "Don W. Strickland has run with Ernie's request for a Radio Questions category. Follow the instructions on his site to join in and then make sure you send major thanks Don's way!"

Moral of the story:  Wish not what Radio can do for you, just see what you can do with Radio.  Thanks Don... 

Car-tracking system raises hopes, concerns.  General Motors will begin installing new sensors and communications systems into vehicles next year that could save lives but might raise privacy concerns.  [CNET News.com] 

August 2002

 


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