Gregg's Security News Aggregator

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

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1.	Orbitz investigates security breach. The online travel agency notifies law enforcement authorities about a recent security breach that has resulted in its customers' e-mail addresses falling into the hands of spammers.
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2.	Librarian of Congress Posts DMCA Exemptions
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3.	The Register: AMD slashes Opteron prices by up to 40%. Except for the one I bought, so I don't have to curse them.
4.	The Register: Cray preps new Opteron-based product line.
5.	The Register: Opteron Red Storm is Thor's Hammer. Not much new here, but it gives some insight into the design process.
6.	Pioneer has a new combination TiVo/DVD burner that lets you burn TV shows to DVD. Sadly, I fear it won't be legal for long.
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7.	TROJ_BABE.A

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1.	Feds grant DMCA exceptions. The U.S. Library of Congress creates four narrow exemptions to a controversial digital-piracy statute but is criticized by free-speech activists, who had hoped for more exceptions.
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2.	NEW 'OFF THE WALL' ONLINE

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1.	Cox sees rise in broadband subscribers
2.	Yahoo acquires BT content sites
3.	SCO attacks open-source foundation. The SCO Group has begun a direct challenge to the General Public License, the legal foundation for Linux, numerous other open-source programming projects and software SCO still ships.
4.	Print yourself a roll of semiconductors?. Xerox researchers use advanced printing techniques to create sheets of plastic transistors that could be used to build flexible LCDs.
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5.	Microsoft Settles Six Class-Action Suits
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6.	Linux Review: A Comparison of Snort Books
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7.	Multi-millionaire hacker questioned by police over e-mail hijacking
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8.	EFF on MIT's LAMP Music System
9.	Librarian of Congress Fails Public Interest in Copyright Regulation
10.	Chi Kien Uong Guestbook Input Validation Flaw Permits Remote Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
11.	thttpd defang() Buffer Overflow Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
12.	Yahoo! Messenger File Transfer Flaw Lets Remote Users Crash the Target User's Client
13.	Libnids TCP Reassembly Memory Error May Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
14.	Symantec Norton Internet Security Blocked Page Message Lets Remote Users Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
15.	TROJ_BANCOS.C

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1.	Verity, Factiva team on corporate search
2.	New data says there's lots of new data. Researchers at U.C. Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems estimate that the world stored 5 quintillion bytes of information in 2002, doubling 1999's total.
3.	Microsoft to shoot Messenger in next update. Spam attacks and security vulnerabilities prompt the software giant to turn off the troublesome feature in the next Windows XP service pack.
4.	RealNetworks' loss narrows, sales up. The digital media services company says revenue was up by 14 percent from the same period last year on higher demand for its music subscription services.
5.	Web whispers about Microsoft voice plan. Details leak onto the Internet about a new application from the software giant that will add voice recognition to handheld computers that use the company's Pocket PC software.
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6.	Sina Shares Drop on False Report of Goldman Views (Reuters). Reuters - Chinese Internet media company Sina Corp. (SINA.O) saw its stock fall back on Tuesday from recent high levels after a false report was posted to an online chat room claiming that Goldman Sachs viewed it as overvalued.
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7.	Court Upholds FCC's 2007 Deadline For Digital TV
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8.	Intentia standardizes on IBM middleware. Swedish midmarket ERP (enterprise resource planning) software maker Intentia International AB plans to standardize around IBM Corp.'s middleware software, which will be embedded inside Intentia's Movex applications, the companies announced Tuesday.
9.	SQL Server 'Yukon' to get XML data type - Infoworld Staff. LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference 2003 here on Tuesday will discuss intentions to add an XML data type to its SQL Server database, with the Yukon release of the product planned for late 2004.
10.	MS settles state class action lawsuits. Microsoft Corp. has settled antitrust class action lawsuits with five states and the District of Columbia, the company announced Tuesday.
11.	InterSystems details new integration suite - Infoworld Staff. Taking a suite approach to integration, InterSystems on Tuesday rolled out an integration platform that melds functions from integration and application servers, an object database, and a development and management environment.
12.	Microsoft riding Whitehorse for developers - Infoworld Staff. LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft in the "Whidbey" version of the Visual Studio tool, due in 2004, will feature a set of design tools called "Whitehorse," to enable building of services-oriented systems.
13.	Microsoft will turn off Messenger, turn on firewall. Microsoft Corp. will detail plans to disable the Windows Messenger Service and activate the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) by default on Windows XP machines in an effort to protect computers from malicious attacks, a company executive said Tuesday.
14.	IT services prepped for life sciences companies. Underscoring the rising importance of life sciences companies as users of IT, Computer Sciences Corp. and CGI Group Inc. announced on Tuesday separate enhancements to their IT services offerings for this industry.
15.	Intel's Otellini sees no plan to enter RFID fray. Boston -- Intel Corp.'s increasing focus on wireless technologies won't include the production of RFID (radio frequency identification) chips, said Intel President and Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini Tuesday at Forrester Research Inc.'s Executive Strategy conference here. ADVERTISEMENT: Never Lose Email! Storactive LiveServ for Exchange - Storactive LiveServýs continuous, zero-loss backup eliminates Exchange data vulnerabilities and ensures rapid recovery of individual emails on up to entire data stores. Enables full recovery of data up to the moment a loss occurred. Get free info!
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16.	W32.HLLW.Gaobot.AO
17.	W32.HLLW.Gaobot.BI
18.	W32.HLLW.Gaobot.BM

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1.	Real cues 250,000 music subscriptions. The rise in members is a sign that the music subscription model is slowly catching hold, even as pay-per-song models such as iTunes gain more attention.
2.	Intel readies Wi-Fi chips. The chipmaker says its much-anticipated combination 802.11a/b part is ready for shipment, and its new combination 802.11b/g part is being sampled by major customers.
3.	Chip group seeks China, U.S. reforms. China's government is playing too active a role in the country's semiconductor industry--but the United States isn't doing enough for its own, a trade group says.
4.	Audiocast archive. Open HTML container page.
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5.	Shareholders Approve Palm Unit's Spinoff (AP). AP - Shareholders approved Palm Inc.'s spinoff of its software unit and acquisition of Handspring Inc. � moves the handheld computer maker hopes will help it stay ahead of rivals in a shrinking market.
6.	Verizon Profit Off Despite Wireless Surge (Reuters). Reuters - Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ.N), the largest U.S. telephone company, on Tuesday posted lower third-quarter profits as an 18 percent jump in wireless sales only partially offset shrinking local telephone revenues.
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7.	Who Needs Radio?
8.	House Asks NASA to Postpone Space Plane

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1.	Lower-cost drives hit storage market. Silicon Graphics unveils data storage systems using Serial ATA disk drives, which offer lower performance than high-end drives but also a lower cost.
2.	RealNetworks' loss narrows, sales up. The digital media services company says revenue was up by 14 percent from the same period last year on higher demand for its music subscription services.
3.	Earnings alert: RealNetworks sales rise. The digital media services company narrows its loss...Microsoft's earnings top estimates...PeopleSoft surpasses sales and revenue estimates.
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4.	Palm, Handspring Stockholders OK Acquisition, Split (Reuters). Reuters - The dramatic remaking of two leading handheld computer makers was sealed on Tuesday when Palm Inc.'s (PALM.O) acquisition of rival Handspring Inc. (HAND.O), and the subsequent split of Palm into two public companies was approved by their shareholders.
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5.	Coming soon: Intrusion detection cheat sheet from SANS
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6.	BugTraq: Re: sh-httpd `wildcard character' vulnerability. Sender: Richard Brittain [richard at northstar dot dartmouth dot edu]
7.	BugTraq: mod_security 1.7RC1 to 1.7.1 vulnerability. Sender: Adam Dyga [adeon at o2 dot pl]
8.	BugTraq: FirstClass 7.1 HTTP Server: Remote Directory Listing. Sender: Richard Maudsley [maudr001 at rbwm dot org]
9.	BugTraq: Wildcard exportfs issue in NFS on IRIX. Sender: SGI Security Coordinator [agent99 at sgi dot com]
10.	Vulnerabilities: Rit Research Labs The Bat! User Directories Insecure Default Permissions Vulnerability. The Bat! is a commercially-available mail user agent, distributed and maintained by Rit Research Labs. It is available for the Microsoft Windows platform. A problem has...
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11.	NGSCB, aka Palladium, in next generation of CPU, says Gates. And it'll be a hardware ID world, real soon now...
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12.	W32.HLLW.Reur

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1.	IBM bringing order to e-mail chaos
2.	Gates gambles on Longhorn. Microsoft bets that its next operating system will succeed even in a tough market.
3.	In spam battle, a meating of the minds. When the history of the spam wars is written, scholars will have to grapple with a thorny contradiction: Companies that fight spam, and also send it.
4.	Google searches for winning ad strategy. The search giant's purchase of Primedia's Sprinks subsidiary could lead the company to reevaluate how it delivers contextual ads to ordinary Web pages.
5.	Vonage brings VoIP to Michigan town. The Internet phone company strikes an agreement with a utility commission to offer its voice services to the region's households.
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6.	OS X Conference: Pixar talks OS X migration (MacCentral). MacCentral - Despite the company's deep connections to Apple, Pixar Animation Studios only completed moving its computer infrastructure to Mac OS X eight months ago. System administrators Bethany Jan Hanson and Gabriel Benveniste said that they deliberately waited until the vast majority of applications they use daily were OS X native. But once that happened, they and the rest of the administrators at Pixar tapped OS X's core Unix capabilities to develop a migration and maintenance scheme that they say has a lower cost of ownership than Mac OS 9.
7.	Verizon Earns $1.79 Billion 3Q Profit (AP). AP - Verizon Communications Inc. earned $1.79 billion in the third quarter, edging reduced forecasts, as more strong gains in wireless and long-distance helped offset mounting customer losses in the local telephone business.
8.	E-Mails, Digital Media Produce Data Mountain -Study (Reuters). Reuters - All those e-mails -- junk or otherwise -- are adding up.
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9.	The Problem With Abundance
10.	X17 Solar Flare Sends 2B Tons of Plasma at Earth
11.	Send in the Nasal Rangers
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12.	Microsoft settles lawsuits for $200m. The world's largest software maker says it has agreed to pay $200m to settle six class-action lawsuits filed in a number of US states.

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1.	Group lobbies for domain buyers' privacy. Individuals and small-business owners should be able to buy domain names without being required to divulge their personal information, an international coalition plans to argue.
2.	MSN continues its move away from DSL. Microsoft is pulling out of efforts to sell broadband Net access to customers in SBC Communications' geographic market, the company's latest move to refocus its broadband strategy.
3.	Fiorina works on 'adaptive enterprise' mantra. Hewlett Packard's CEO attempts to apply some polish to her company�s adaptive enterprise concept, but she continues to stop short of offering a detailed definition of what it means.
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4.	Head-to-Head: Siebel vs. SAP CRM (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - CRM is a business strategy, not an application or a technology. However, in all but the smallest and most basic of companies, anywhere from a little to a great deal of expensive technology is required to implement and support CRM strategies effectively. Choosing the "best" CRM suppliers and applications can be a complex and serious decision with long-lasting consequences for any organization.
5.	Firewalls for Safeguarding Windows Networks (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Windows networks are ground zero for the security problems plaguing enterprises. While some experts recommend greater operating-system diversification to reduce vulnerability, that piece of advice matters little when your network is already awash in Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) server and client products.
6.	Linux Kernel 2.6 Test Version Launched (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - A call for broad-based industry testing of next-generation Linux software has been issued by the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and Linux creator Linus Torvalds. The test9 version of the Linux 2.6 kernel promises to be a significant improvement over previous iterations, according to the OSDL, a global consortium of Linux backers.
7.	Trend Micro Debuts PC-cillin (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Dipping its toe into U.S. online retail, Japanese company Trend Micro (Nasdaq: TMIC) launched its wildly successful Internet security product for enterprise workers on Monday.
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8.	Vulnerabilities: Multiple Advanced Poll PHP Vulnerabilities. Advanced Poll is a freely available, open source PHP web application. It is available for the Unix, Linux, and Microsoft platforms. Several problems exist in Advanced P...
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9.	Gates Opens Windows' Next Wave

4:27:34 PM

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1.	Down with marketing jargon. I have come to the belief that there is a contest between marketing departments as to how to describe something with the most words while not actually saying anything.
2.	Macromedia software ready for Linux
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3.	Digital TV Tuner Mandate Survives Court Review (Reuters). Reuters - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld federal regulations requiring television set manufacturers to install tuners that can receive high-quality digital broadcast signals in new sets starting next summer.
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4.	Terahertz Scanners See Inside Sealed Packages
5.	Napster Pre-Paid Cards
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6.	California Cracks Down on Spammers with $2M Fine
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7.	BugTraq: RE: Norton Internet Security Blocked Sites XSS. Sender: Sym Security [symsecurity at symantec dot com]
8.	Vulnerabilities: Atrium Software Mercur Mailserver IMAP AUTH Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. MERCUR Mailserver is a commercially available mail software solution distributed and maintained by Atrium Software International. It is available for the Microsoft Window...
9.	Vulnerabilities: Atrium Software Mercur Mailserver POP3 AUTH Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. MERCUR Mailserver is a commercially available mail software solution distributed and maintained by Atrium Software International. It is available for the Microsoft Window...
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10.	Shareholders approve Palm, Handspring merger. PalmSource now on its own
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11.	Pretty Good at Gettin' By
12.	Slackware: gdm multiple vulnerabilities
13.	Slackware: fetchmail denial of service vulnerability

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1.	Isenberg on the Future of Money. David Isenberg has some interesting commentary on the Future of Money conference: The agenda is interesting, but with glaring holes where the problems of the world are. For example, take the first session, "Digital Pearl Harbor: A Modern Disaster Scenario." I infer that this deals with what happens when the money system comes under attack. Well, the money system already is under attack for anybody in the class formerly known as "Middle" who has children, according to The Two Income Trap, a jaw-dropping empirical study of 2200 U.S. families that went bankrupt. Link
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2.	Longhorn: Hurry up and wait. Although Microsoft is looking to rope in Longhorn developers now, the company knows it's in for a long ride. The operating system is years away from being finished.
3.	Why IT does--and does not--matter. CenterBeam CEO Kevin Francis on why IT still does--and does not--matter more than you might think.
4.	Avoiding the land of 'Um, yeah, so?'. There's a fine line between rising above the technical details and spinning off into the stratosphere--the land of "Um, yeah, so?"
5.	IBM sets up mobile computing lab in Korea. Big Blue teams with the South Korean government to establish a ubiquitous computing lab to research the emerging field of telematics.
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6.	Microsoft Settles Six Class Action Suits (PC World). PC World - Software giant will offer hardware or software vouchers to consumers.
7.	Shareholders Approve Palm Unit's Spinoff (AP). AP - Shareholders have approved Palm Inc.'s spinoff of its software unit and acquisition of Handspring Inc. � moves the handheld computer maker hopes will help it stay ahead of rivals in a shrinking market.
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8.	Pretty Good at Gettin' By
9.	Slackware: gdm multiple vulnerabilities
10.	Slackware: fetchmail denial of service vulnerability
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11.	BugTraq: Mac OS X Arbitrary File Overwrite via Core Files. Sender: at stake Advisories [advisories at atstake dot com]
12.	BugTraq: Mac OS X Systemic Insecure File Permissions. Sender: at stake Advisories [advisories at atstake dot com]
13.	BugTraq: Mac OS X Long argv[] buffer overflow. Sender: at stake Advisories [advisories at atstake dot com]
14.	BugTraq: Local root vuln in kpopup. Sender: b0f www dot b0f dot net [b0fnet at yahoo dot com]
15.	Vulnerabilities: PostgreSQL To_Ascii() Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. PostgreSQL is a freely distributed Object-Relational DBMS. It is available for a number of platforms including Unix and Linux variants and Microsoft Windows operating sys...
16.	Vulnerabilities: Apache2 MOD_CGI STDERR Denial Of Service Vulnerability. Apache HTTP Server is an open-source web server designed to run on a number of different platforms. Apache2 has been reported prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability....
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17.	Suspected paedophile cleared by computer forensics. Trojans found on accused man's HDD
18.	Microsoft settles six more suits. Halfway to freedom
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19.	Suspected paedophile cleared by computer forensics
20.	Banking on Reliable Security
21.	Enterprise security still problematic

2:27:04 PM

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1.	San Diego Bloggers blog SoCal wildfires. BoingBoing reader Joe writes: I don't think I realized the impact of blogging until 9/11 -- and I was a bit dismayed when these fires hit that there seemed to be not a whole lot of coverage. But looking now and updating San Diego Bloggers I see that there are LOTS of people blogging about their experiences in the fires. Many first hand accounts of evacuees, many photos. Thankfully, things appear to be stabilzing. But the persistent smell, countywide, of campfire is still with us, and authorities say that they don't hope to have control of the fires for several more days. Link
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2.	Sun Forms Another Utility Computing Alliance (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - CGI Group will pay for Sun computing resources�from servers and storage to software and networking devices�on a per-use basis.
3.	Verizon Profit Off Despite Wireless Gains (Reuters). Reuters - Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ.N), the largest U.S. telephone company, on Tuesday posted a lower third-quarter profit as shrinking local telephone revenue was only partially offset by an 18 percent surge in wireless sales.
4.	Dell Updates High-End Gaming PC (PC World). PC World - Dimension XPS offers Intel's fastest P4s and RAID hard drive technology.
5.	CIA Used Dragonfly, Catfish as Spy Gadget Models (Reuters). Reuters - The CIA once built a mechanical dragonfly to carry a listening device but found small gusts of wind knocked it off course so it was never used in a spy operation.
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6.	Microsoft Voice Command Almost Here
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7.	News: Sober email worm gives Windows users the DTs. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk]
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8.	PlayLouder launches royalty paying music share service. Updated Share as much as you like - with other subscribers
9.	Ohio claims AOL ignores the free in 'free trial'. Suing for relief
10.	Suspected paedophile cleared by computer forensics. Trojans founds on accused man's HDD
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11.	Sony to slash 20,000 jobs
12.	Bug in Symantec software could be script kiddie target
13.	More memory == slower machine?
14.	Cyberpiracy in Canada
15.	Reinventing the wheel: MIT's "music sharing network"
16.	Sober worm may be slow, but don't be complacent
17.	Firewalls for Safeguarding Windows Networks
18.	Make sure your wireless network can't be sniffed
19.	'ID management' could cut bureaucracy--and costs
20.	Nokia launches TV phone
21.	Hackers defence: the computer did it
22.	'Net security gets root-level boost

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1.	Soccer balls made from plastic bags. Nice photo-illustrated account of how kids in Burundi use off-cuts of fabric and old plastic bags to improvise soccer balls. Link (Thanks, Bob!)
2.	Whitehouse site blocks indexing of files about Iraq. Whitehouse.gov has a robots.txt file that keeps directories containing the word "iraq" from being indexed by search-engines. Sometime between April 2003 and late October, 2003, hundreds of instances of the term "iraq" were added to the whitehouse.gov robots.txt file. On a quick look, It appears that the google cached version of the robots.txt file very nearly could be created by searching for the string "text" in the April 16 file and replacing it with the string "iraq" then adding the newly changed files ("text" to "iraq") to the original file, keeping the lines with "text" in them as well. That's from a quick look so I'm not sure it would hold up, but it appears it could explain the bulk of the "iraq" appearances. Link (Thanks, Kurt!)
3.	SoCal fires: more aerial imagery, online. BoingBoing pal and benevolent wireless hacker Mike Outmesguine sends these links to mindboggling aerial imagery of the fires raging in Southern California. Link one, Link two, Link three, Link four.
4.	George Lakoff on why the conservatives seem to be winning. My friend Bonnie Powell interviewed master linguist and cultural commentator George Lakoff at UC Berkeley about how the Democrats desperately need a lesson in language. This is a must-read: "...Conservatives, especially conservative think tanks, have framed virtually every issue from their perspective. They have put a huge amount of money into creating the language for their worldview and getting it out there. Progressives have done virtually nothing." Link
5.	Gamespaces' toilets. This Russian site features screenshots of toilets as they appear in dozens of video games, from the paleolithic VGA potties of Leisure Suit Larry to the nurby whimsy of Counter Strike's classy wooden-seat shitter. Link (via Kottke)
6.	Aeron wheelchair. Herman Miller has teamed up with a Tennessee company called Permobil to produce a powered Aeron wheelchair. Link (via Kottke)
7.	Fire photoblogging from Jason DeFillippo. Link
8.	Report from Machinima awards 2003. Hugh sez, "The Machinima Film Festival 2003 happened on Saturday in New York City, and quite a lot of what it revealed was surprising. For example, Machinima is going pro much faster than most people anticipated - the films that swept the awards were either already commercial (and in one case bound for Sundance this year) or going that way - Red vs Blue is hopefully heading onto shop shelves soon. And the attendees were mostly older film-makers or film students, many of them already established as creators in other media." Link (Thanks, Hugh!)
9.	Entire house contents stolen. Eli the Bearded sez, "Today's San Francisco Chronicle has a story about the entire contents of a man's SF apartment being stolen. All the furniture, photos, the food from the fridge. Everything. This was four months ago, and the police have no leads. The quirky thing about this, not mentioned in the article, is that it took place just about the same time an entire house (save the foundation) was stolen in Placerville, CA." Link (Thanks, Eli!)
10.	Tekpunk author/visionary Kenji Siratori starts blogging. BoingBoing pal Warren Ellis points to disturbed genius Kenji Siratori's brand-spankin'-new blog, and warns would-be readers to "start with small doses." Born in 1975, Siratori is the Japanese author of Blood Electric, and describes himself as a 'hypermodern writer working in a digital environment'. Link
11.	Spam ecosystem breeding hardier UCE. Spammers acquire all the tools used by antispammers to filter email, and they tweak their spam accordingly. Antispam algorithms are acting like predators on the spam ecosystem, culling weak, easy-to-detect spam and leaving behind more virulent, hardier strains. "There will be an enormous drop in HTML spam, and we will have more text-based and chatty spam," said Graham-Cumming. But "the volume of spam will increase as spammers send variants of messages to get them through." Although no spammer has yet to fool every Bayesian filter, some tricks work better than others. One recent spam employed a trick that misspelled almost every word in the body, but was still coherent enough to get the gist through. Link
12.	Audio Marx Brothers remixes.. The FARKers are remixing Marx Brothers audio clips to make their own tunes, dialog, and comedy routines. I'm quite fond of this MP3 (617k). Link
13.	Asia Carrera -- adult film star, geek -- evacuates from SoCal fires. Adult film actress and self-professed nerd of porn (NSFW) Asia Carrera is among the many people evacuating homes in the line of fire today: Homeowners packed their cars and fled several communities as adult film actress Asia Carrera left her Chatsworth townhouse after packing clothes, a computer and two cats into her metallic-blue Corvette. "I've been through it before, but this [fire] is a hell of a lot bigger," Carrera said. "I didn't sleep at all last night. I sat by the window and looked at the sky glowing red." Link
14.	My notes from Decentralized Economic Systems and Monetary Evolution. Here are my running notes from the "Decentralized Economic Systems and Monetary Evolution" panel at the Future of Money conference. Mobile phone companies have become billing systems. Payment infrastructure is being integrated into software that you d/l to your computer. The info is more portable: your credit-record is more accessible, it can be used to quickly get a credit-line, found a reputation system, etc. As this is integrated into IT systems, we'll get a wealth of apps, build on a centralized server. How do you make the convenience sufficient to drive new market apps? PayPal was successful by enabling new merchants -- lower barrier to entry than getting a Mastercard acct. It's a P2P system in that it allows individuals to accept payments. We have a lot of IP in the antifraud systems that make that happens. The centralized system allows for the antifraud systems, which allows for the very fast creation of merchant accts. Link
15.	Xeni on NPR's Day to Day: New Napster launch. On today's edition of the NPR program "Day to Day", I speak with host Alex Chadwick about tomorrow's launch of Napster 2.0. The pre-release app was super-sweet and surprisingly stable, not entirely unlike iTunes, includes some goodies iTunes lacks, performs elegantly in Win environments, loved the massive catalog (found almost every obscure old-school hip-hop and dub track I wanted within seconds) but WMA + Win-DRM = ouch. Like a waiter serving you a hot, frothy, mouthwateringly delicious cappucino you've been craving all day -- then, peeing in it. Link to "Day to Day" home, listen to the archived show here after 12PM Pacific.
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16.	Microsoft settles some state lawsuits. The software giant reaches settlements in some state class-action lawsuits it has been defending. The company will release details later in the day.
17.	Opera enhances browser for Nokia phones. The software maker upgrades the browser it released for Nokia 6600 phones for use in other Nokia mobile phones that use the Symbian operating system.
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18.	Did AOL Charge Users Without Consent? (PC World). PC World - Ohio attorney general says ISP failed to honor cancellation requests.
19.	Nokia Sees Operators Boosting 3G Investments (Reuters). Reuters - Nokia said on Tuesday that mobile telecoms operators had started to increase investments in high-speed networks after the summer holidays, but it was also pushing cheaper and slower alternatives. "There's clearly change in the air. We've seen acceleration of third generation networks after the summer holidays," Jukka Bergqvist, Nokia's executive vice president for its Networks business, told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the annual Nokia Mobile Internet Conference.
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20.	Star Trek Enterprise Tested to Mach 5
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21.	Sober virus in the wild but slow-moving. An e-mail-borne virus that apparently originated in Germany is in the wild but has not yet spread widely or affected many users, an anti-virus researcher said Monday.
22.	TSMC results hit high as chip sector recovers. TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip maker, reported record net sales in its third quarter results on Tuesday as the semiconductor industry showed signs of a recovery.
23.	Update: Longhorn gets first showing at PDC. LOS ANGELES -- Proclaiming that the digital decade is just dawning, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Monday gave the first official peek at Longhorn, the next version of Windows expected out in 2006.Longhorn will be "the biggest release of this decade, the biggest since Windows 95," Gates said in his opening keynote at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles.
24.	Ohio accuses AOL of charging users without permission. America Online Inc. (AOL) and its CompuServe subsidiary were hit by a complaint from Ohio's attorney general Monday, claiming that they charged customers for Internet access services without their permission.
25.	Microsoft eyes Web services design tool - Infoworld Staff. LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft, at its Professional Developers Conference 2003 here, plans to reveal details of a Web services design tool that is intended to be similar, albeit superior, to BEA Systems' WebLogic Workshop platform, a Microsoft official said.
26.	AmberPoint, Microsoft partner on Web services - Infoworld Staff. LOS ANGELES -- AmberPoint on Tuesday will unveil an abbreviated version of its Web services management software, AmberPoint Express, that will be distributed with the planned "Whidbey" version of the Microsoft Visual Studio developer tool in 2004. ADVERTISEMENT: RFID/Smart Label Printing White Paper from Zebra - Learn about how smart labels help prevent asset loss, track shipments, and process customer transactions, and see how the technology could help your business.
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27.	Banking on Reliable Security
28.	Enterprise security still problematic
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29.	Infocus: Introduction to Nessus. This article describes the installation, configuration and features of the latest version of Nessus, a powerful and free client-server based security scanner.
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30.	BugTraq: Fastream NetFile FTP/WebServer 6.0 CSS Vulnerability. Sender: Oliver Karow [Oliver dot Karow at gmx dot de]
31.	BugTraq: [OpenPKG-SA-2003.046] OpenPKG Security Advisory (apache). Sender: OpenPKG [openpkg at openpkg dot org]
32.	BugTraq: [securemac] Local vulnerability: MacOSX Screensaver locking bypass.. Sender: kang [kang at insecure dot ws]
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33.	Ohio claims AOL ignores the free in 'free trial'. Cancellations ignored
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34.	VBS_FORTNIGHT.M
35.	Le nouveau Livre Blanc de SurfControl analyse les différentes législations appliquées dans le monde en matière de confidentialité et de libertés individuelles
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36.	Book Review: Black Ice. The United States was caught offguard when terrorists used civilian commercial aircraft as missiles to attack the World Trade Center and other targets. Much has been done to improve security since then, however many fear that the Department of Homeland...

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1.	Sony makes job cuts official. The consumer electronics giant officially announces its 20,000 job cuts, as part of a major three-year restructuring strategy.
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2.	Enterprises asked to 'hammer' on new 2.6 test kernel (TechTarget). TechTarget - Enterprises anxious to have a go at the Linux 2.6 kernel got their wish Monday, when Linux creator Linus Torvalds, 2.6 kernel maintainer Andrew Morton and the Open Source Development Lab released a new test kernel.
3.	Microsoft to Announce Lawsuit Settlements (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, said it will announce Tuesday that it has reached settlements with several U.S. states over class action lawsuits.
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4.	Longhorn Developers @ MSDN
5.	Using Honeypots to Fight Worms
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6.	'Net security gets root-level boost
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7.	Get this RFID tag off my fatigues. Letters Surplus tracking
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8.	Chi Kien Uong Guestbook Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
9.	HTML Help API Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
10.	The Bat! Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
11.	Advanced Poll Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
12.	Les Visiteurs v2.0.1 Code Injection Vulnerability
13.	Yahoo Messenger Client Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
14.	Dansie Shopping Cart Installation Path Disclosure Vulnerability
15.	Une nouvelle version de mod_security est sortie
16.	C'est la fin pour Pirates Mag'
17.	Un pas en avant pour la cryptographie quantique
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18.	Watch Out Romania- Brazil Wants Your Title. Recently I had posted a blurb about Romania being a nexus of cybercrime. They have a lot of talented programmers and computer gurus and no economy or jobs to support them so they turn to hacking and extortion and organized...

11:26:14 AM

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1.	Macworld Expo 'Power Tools' conferences expand (MacCentral). MacCentral - IDG World Expo on Tuesday announced the expansion of the Power Tools Conferences set to take place at Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Calif. The even is planned for January 5 - 9, 2004, and takes place as it does every year at the Moscone Center.
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2.	Nokia 7700 - "Multimedia Terminal"
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3.	New Windows virus hits computers. A virus dubbed Sober which affects many versions of Windows is starting to spread more widely online.
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4.	Elsewhere: Firewalls for Safeguarding Windows Networks. Windows networks are ground zero for the security problems plaguing enterprises. While some experts recommend greater operating-system diversification to reduce vulnerabi...
5.	Elsewhere: 'ID management' could cut bureaucracy--and costs. Safelite Glass had a common business problem: Its information systems were a morass of products from different manufacturers, requiring the company to employ nearly a doz...
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6.	Nokia's 7700 'media device' - first shot in the PDA wars?. But it's not a Communicator. Well, not exactly, just nearly...
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7.	BAT_SLACKBOT.M
8.	REG_SLACKBOT.M

10:25:54 AM

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1.	Verizon Earns $1.8 Billion in 3rd-Quarter (AP). AP - Verizon Communications Inc. earned $1.8 billion in the third quarter, edging many forecasts, as more strong gains in wireless and long-distance subscribers helped offset continuing losses in the local telephone business.
2.	Kyocera's interim profit slips 8.0 pct on poor cellphone sales (AFP). AFP - Japanese high-tech manufacturer Kyocera said its net profit for the six months to September fell 8.0 percent from a year earlier to 15.8 billion yen (146 million dollars), hit by inventory-related losses and poor mobile phone sales.
3.	Ohio Suit Says AOL Deceived Customers (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The state of Ohio sued America Online Inc. yesterday, alleging that the Internet service deceived more than 250 customers by continuing to bill them after they called to cancel their monthly subscriptions.
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4.	Dell DJ: Yet Another MP3 Player
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5.	Email security testing zone powered up with new exploits
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6.	Technology Briefs
7.	Sidebar: Security Log
8.	Symantec to buy ON Technology for $100M
9.	WHITE HOUSE'S SEARCH ENGINE PRACTICES CAUSE CONCERN
10.	JS_FORTNIGHT.M
11.	Sober: Neuer Mail-Wurm "made in Germany" bisher relativ erfolglos
12.	Email security testing zone powered up with new exploits

9:25:43 AM

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1.	A key to security. 'ID management' could cut bureaucracy--and costs
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2.	Bookham forecast points toward recovery (FT.com). FT.com - Bookham Technology, the optical networking components maker, provided evidence of modest recovery on Tuesday with a sales growth forecast of between 3 and 10 per cent in the three months to December 31 against the previous quarter.
3.	Verizon's Third-Quarter Profit Falls (Reuters). Reuters - Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ.N), the largest U.S. telephone company, on Tuesday posted lower third-quarter profit as slim demand for local telephone service offset higher wireless and data sales.
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4.	U.S. Senate approves antispam bill. Bill allows fines as large as $3 million for some types of illegal spam
5.	Sober virus in the wild but slow-moving. E-mail borne virus classified as 'low-profiled'
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6.	Special Report: Calling in the Specialists
7.	Hackers Preying on Patching Headache
8.	Crypto solution for Linux devices claimed to be faster, cheaper
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9.	MS 'Windows for iPod' delayed but still marks death of PDA. And if Microsoft doesn't do it, Apple will
10.	RIAA nemesis, Senator Coleman voices his thoughts online. 'Law and technology are not in sync'
11.	Creative MuVo NX MP3 player. Reg Review The Flash drive reborn
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12.	TROJ_TOONCOM.H
13.	Norton Internet Security Blocked Site Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
14.	Norton Internet Security Blocked Site Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
15.	Slackware update for fetchmail
16.	Slackware update for fetchmail
17.	Slackware update for gdm
18.	Slackware update for gdm
19.	Libnids TCP Reassembly Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
20.	Libnids TCP Reassembly Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
21.	WU-FTPD S/KEY Authentication Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
22.	WU-FTPD S/KEY Authentication Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
23.	Les Visiteurs Arbitrary File Inclusion Vulnerability
24.	Les Visiteurs Arbitrary File Inclusion Vulnerability
25.	Chi Kien Uong Guestbook Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
26.	Chi Kien Uong Guestbook Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

8:25:27 AM

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1.	FCC nears vote on TV 'broadcast flag'. Federal regulators are expected to vote this week on new copy-protection rules for television programming, and a stream of last-minute lobbying is pouring into Washington D.C. on the issue.
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2.	First look at future of Windows. Microsoft has given programmers a look at an early version of its next incarnation of Windows.
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3.	Sober email worm gives Windows users the DTs. Back on the wagon

7:25:03 AM

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1.	Nokia Launches Television Phone (Reuters). Reuters - The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia launched new phone models on Tuesday including a handset that will allow users to watch television, part of a drive to try to sustain market growth in 2004.
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2.	Intel Prescott contains non-AMD 64-bit tech - report. Update Quite possibly
3.	PeopleSoft: tough integration targets. Covering all the bases
4.	Gatelinx preps free P2P videocon messenger. Skype-like
5.	AMD slashes Opteron prices by up to 40%. Anticpated Athlon XP cuts made too
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6.	Is the Cure Worth the Cost?. Human beings and their enormous appetite for fossil fuels, as well as the waste associated with this consumption, are responsible for global warming. Cleaning things up could lead to economic ruin, some believe. But what about the cost of doing nothing?
7.	Microsoft Gives Glimpse of New OS. Microsoft's Bill Gates opens up about Longhorn, the next version of Windows, to developers at a company conference. In his preview of the new operating system, Gates promises Longhorn will be Microsoft's largest software launch this decade.
8.	Video Games Gone Wild!. Check out the hottest and newest XCubeStation titles. By David Cross from Wired magazine.
9.	In the Beginning There Was a Sign. At the start of her geek-seeking adventure along Route 1, a Wired News reporter unearths local historical highlights -- including rum running and one state's war against Canada. High-speed Net access is harder to come by. Michelle Delio reports from Fort Kent, Maine.
10.	The Panther Roars (in Pain). A hapless Wired News reporter forgets to back up his hard drive while installing Apple's latest update to OS X, code-named Panther. The installation glitch leads to a world of hurt. A product review by Leander Kahney.
11.	Spam Pitches Are Mutating Faster. Trying to stay one step ahead of ever-improving spam filters, spammers are creating and trying new tricks much more quickly. Antispam developers are keeping up, for now. By Ryan Singel.
12.	Two-Day DVDs a Slow Sale. Disposable DVDs have been available for over a month, and a survey of stores finds the product is not flying off the shelves. Plus, environmentalists are keeping up their efforts to stop the sale of a product they call wasteful. By Katie Dean.
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13.	JS_FORTNIGHT.M
14.	Sober: Neuer Mail-Wurm "made in Germany" bisher relativ erfolglos

6:24:44 AM

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1.	Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX With CrossOver Office
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2.	Potter magic charms Nokia chief. Yrjo Neuvo, Nokia's technical wizard, looks to JK Rowling's books for inspiration about future mobiles.
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3.	BugTraq: Re: [LSD] Security vulnerability in SUN's Java Virtual Machine implementation. Sender: Alla Bezroutchko [alla at scanit dot be]
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4.	FoTW: 'You are a lier'. Flame of the Week MS 'lost the PC battle before it even began'
5.	SCO says GPL unenforceable, unconstitutional and void. Gloves off
6.	Security muddle better than FUDdle. Meanwhile, in the real world...
7.	No effect seen in US hack disclosure law. 'Nobody's telling anybody anything'
8.	Voice and data — is this network big enough for both of us?. IP convergence slowly emerges from shadow of own hype

5:24:24 AM

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1.	Sony plans massive job cuts. The consumer electronics giant aims to shed 13% of its staff to combat its rivals and prop up profits.
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2.	Dell debuts iPod killer, music store. Twice the battery life, $100 cheaper
3.	GPL unenforceable, void, unconstitutional - SCO. Gloves off
4.	Why Longhorn is going to be different. PDC 2003 Sneak peek
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5.	EU develops cyber crime forensics standards
6.	System recovery with Knoppix
7.	Businesses invite attacks
8.	HNS 5th anniversary book giveaway
9.	AirMagnet unveils new wireless LAN management products
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10.	WHITE HOUSE'S SEARCH ENGINE PRACTICES CAUSE CONCERN

4:24:05 AM

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1.	Big Companies Add to Spam Flow. The antispam bill passed by the Senate may do little to stop legitimate companies from sending so-called white-collar spam. By Saul Hansell.
2.	AOL's Happy Secret. Here's a well-kept secret: America Online may be having a recovery and turn a profit early next year. By David D. Kirkpatrick.
3.	A Web Site That Can Handle Most Problems in Las Vegas. A Web site, Vegas.com, is positioning itself as the leading source of reliable, detailed and up-to-date information about Las Vegas. By Joe Sharkey.
4.	Gates Foundation Grant Supports CUNY's Plan to Open 10 New High Schools. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will give the City University of New York $6.8 million to create 10 early-college high schools. By Karen W. Arenson.
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5.	Storyline Web Site Gets Creative Juices Flowing (Reuters). Reuters - The next David Chase, J.K. Rowling or David Mamet just might be surfing at http://www.potterproject.com, courtesy of a New York start-up called My Two Storylines.
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6.	EU Tries to Force MS to Compete. Hoping to do more than the U.S. against Microsoft, the European Commission is flexing some muscle to get the company to remove software from Windows to give competitors a chance. Microsoft wants the European Union off its back.
7.	IBM, HP Battle for Customers. Offering sweet reseller commissions to get businesses to switch equipment suppliers and drawings for convertibles, HP and IBM escalate efforts to take each other's business, bragging when they do. Their rivalry helps customers.
8.	Sherlock, Look for the Bugs. A graphic new science exhibit uses a model crime scene to show visitors how insects help crack murder cases. CSI: Crime Scene Insects opens at the Science Museum of Minnesota, calling attention to the rapidly growing field of forensic entomology.
9.	Wish You Were Here, See You There. In an online 3-D world called There, you can play around with lots of neato stuff. By all accounts, it's a cool place to hang out, but is it exciting enough that people will pay to play? By Daniel Terdiman.
10.	Post Office Wants to ID the Mail. As a security measure, U.S. bulk mailers are being told to identify themselves on all outgoing mail. Civil libertarians fear the loss of anonymity could result in an invasion of privacy. By Ryan Singel.
11.	The Two Faces of Takashi Murakami. He's high art. He's low culture. He's a one-man mass-market machine. By Jeff Howe from Wired magazine.
12.	Finding New Life on an Old Road. Ignoring the advice of a highway bureaucrat, a Wired News reporter and her photographer husband kiss the interstate goodbye. The pair will follow Route 1 from Maine to Florida in search of geek history and culture. By Michelle Delio.
13.	A Case of Piracy Overkill?. Proposed FCC rules will make redistributing copied digital TV shows harder. Hollywood says it needs to protect a $4 billion foreign syndication industry. Opponents call the rules useless, a violation of the spirit of fair use. By Kim Zetter.

3:23:45 AM

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1.	Red vs Blue Sweeps Machinima Awards
2.	EFA Claims No Illegal Material On mp3s4free.com
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3.	The Last Day of the Concorde. A technological marvel it may have been, but at $9,000 for a trans-Atlantic flight, the Concorde was too expensive for all but the most extravagant traveler. On Friday, the distinctive delta-winged jet made its final commercial flight.
4.	California Chalks Up a Spam Win. The Golden State wins its first antispam judgment, against marketing firm PW Marketing. The company is fined $2 million under a 1998 statute; the state expects spammers will be easier to prosecute under its tougher new law.
5.	ID Cards Aim to Speed Security. Writer and publisher Steven Brill launches a company that will issue identity cards to speed people through security checkpoints at airports, office buildings and sports arenas. The cards, although voluntary, raise privacy concerns.
6.	Google Raring to Go Public. Google is auditioning dozens of banks for an initial public offering, possibly in the first half of 2004. Some say the company is aiming for a market value of $16 billion, putting the search engine in league with Yahoo and Amazon.com.
7.	DirecTV Takes No Prisoners. DirecTV has been waging a war on piracy that makes the record labels look nonchalant. Lucas Graves interviews the company's enforcement chief, Larry Rissler. From Wired magazine.
8.	Tech Addicts Need Textual Healing. Can't stay off your cell phone, even on a date? Inordinately fond of text messaging? You might have an addiction. Then again, you might not. By Elizabeth Biddlecombe.
9.	Yo, Mr. CEO, Get Our Point Now?. A privacy group wants banks to know that they shouldn't be allowed to pass customer information around so easily. So they made their point above New York City by having a skywriter paint a bank CEO's Social Security number in the sky. By Kim Zetter.
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10.	IBM's Mills Sets Software Sights on Middleware, Linux
11.	Software Bugs On the March
12.	Hidden Vulnerability Dogs VPN Project
13.	Technology Briefs
14.	Sidebar: Security Log
15.	Symantec to buy ON Technology for $100M

2:23:25 AM

1:23:13 AM

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1.	Antispam advocates question Senate bill. WASHINGTON - A bill attempting to regulate the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail passed the U.S. Senate last week, but many antispam advocates say the bill would have little impact on the amount of spam coming into e-mail users' in-boxes.
2.	Lotus set to launch Workplace 1.1 - Infoworld Staff. Next week IBM's Lotus Software plans to detail the next step in its Workplace strategy with the introduction of the 1.1 version of its J2EE-based platform for collaboration.
3.	Web services, XML touted for Longhorn - Infoworld Staff. LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft Senior Vice President Jim Allchin at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference here on Monday touted the upcoming Longhorn release of Windows for its XML, Web services, collaboration, and storage capabilities.
4.	Cisco partner upgrades performance management. Visual Networks Inc., a maker of wide-area network performance management software, has enhanced its product, separated it from a hardware platform and broken it up into pieces that the customer can mix and match, the company announced Monday.
5.	SCO: IBM cannot enforce GPL. The legal war between The SCO Group Inc. and IBM Corp. took another step forward Friday, with the Utah-based software company asserting that IBM does not have the right to enforce the GPL (GNU General Public License) software license that governs the Linux operating system. ADVERTISEMENT: See Enterprise Business Intelligence in Action - See how business intelligence can be used to solve real business problems with this live demo from Information Builders
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6.	Law proposed for security audits - Infoworld Staff. Public companies would report results yearly
7.	U.S. Senate approves antispam bill. Bill allows fines as large as $3 million for some types of illegal spam ADVERTISEMENT: Get strong 128-bit SSL security for your online business - To secure your servers with 128-bit SSL encryption, download a copy of the free VeriSign Guide, "Securing Your Web site for Business." You'll learn everything you need to know about encrypting e-commerce transactions, securing corporate intranets, and authenticating your Web site.
8.	Antispam advocates question Senate bill. Critics say the CAN-SPAM Act will do little to stem the tide of spam
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9.	FALL ISSUE OF 2600 HITS THE STANDS
10.	asl_plz.txt
11.	btscanner-1.0.tar.gz

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