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Thursday, August 21, 2003
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Virus author is test-driving Windows vulnerabilities: "Putting a 'dead-date' on his viruses, releasing Sobig variants on different days of the week and using slightly different subject lines and file names suggests that the Sobig author is test-driving his creations to see what tricks work best from the technical and psychological point of view." As a Mac user, I have been relatively little affected by the recent worm activities. Of course, the spam volume has increased, but procmail and the Mail program in Mac OS X currently filter almost all of the Sobig.F messages. But there still remains the danger that one day a Mac-specific worm starts to spread, so I don't feel altogether safe.
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Torvalds Slams SCO: "They are smoking crack. [...] The SMP code was written by a number of Linux people I know well (I did a lot of the SMP IRQ scalability myself, personally), so their claims are just ludicrous. And they claim they own JFS [journaled file system technology] too. Whee. They're not shy about claiming ownership of other people's code - while at the same time beating their breasts about how they have been wronged."
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Updated Analysis of SCO's Las Vegas Slide Show: "SCO's contention is that copyrighted software can never be separated, that any code created by a Unix licensee that ever touches SCO Unix or is even loosely based on Unix is entirely SCO's from that moment on, and can never be used for another purpose by its creator without authorization from SCO. SCO's contention goes against any reasonable understanding of the boundaries of intellectual property. It's unlikely that it would survive a court room."
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Microsoft warns of critical IE flaws: "Microsoft alerted PC users to three critical security flaws in Internet Explorer and Windows on Wednesday, as the MSBlast worm and its variants used a previous vulnerability in Windows to spread across the Net for a second week." [jenett.radio]
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PowerPoint Is Evil: "Edward Tufte. At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content. Thus PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple." [Tomalak's Realm]
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Frustration: "They say that the fixer instinct is a male thing. [...] Women are just as much fixers as men; it's just that women generally manage to fix stuff before anybody has to open mouth to say it's a problem." [Caveat Lector]
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SoBig.F Virus: "So I got hit with bounces from systems that think I sent the virus. I noticed that many of the bounces were coming from the same IP address, so I blocked it from my mail server. But other systems sent bounce-messages, and there's really no way to prevent this from happening. So even though I follow fairly good virus-protection practices - and my system isn't infected in any way - I still have to deal with the effects." [onfocus.com]
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UN points finger over Baghdad security: "Secretary General Kofi Annan says the US-led forces were responsible for security around the bombed UN building in Baghdad." [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
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