Saturday, February 14, 2004
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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FBI on case of stolen Microsoft Windows source code (FBI). FBI - An FBI task force hunted for a cyber-criminal who posted on the Internet source code for Windows, the jewels of Microsoft's software empire. |
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Slashdot
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Diamond Age Coming Soon |
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SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities
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Vulnerabilities: PHPCodeCabinet Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities. The phpCodeCabinet scripts are designed to be a reference library for personal and professional use. They are implemented in PHP and are freely distributable under the G... |
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NewsIsFree: Security
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MS04-007 Exploit released |
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Zaurus SL-C860 Review |
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SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities
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Vulnerabilities: Linux Kernel Samba Share Local Privilege Elevation Vulnerability. A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been reported to affect the 2.6 Linux kernel.
The issue appears to exist due to a lack of sufficient sanity checks perform... |
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Vulnerabilities: Ratbag Game Engine Denial of Service Vulnerability. Ratbag develops PC games for Microsoft Windows platforms. Ratbag games include Dirt Track Racing, Dirt Track Racing Australia, Leadfoot, Dirt Track Racing Sprint Cars, D... |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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Cingular Wireless ups bid for AT&T Wireless as tender deadline passes (AFP). AFP - Cingular Wireless upped its bid to buy AT&T Wireless from 30 billion to an estimated 34 billion dollars as the deadline for bids passed Friday, it was reported. |
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Academics Turn to Video Games (AP). AP - Ever yearn to study "Tetris" as a metaphor for American consumerism? Or write a paper on narrative structure in the horror action game "Silent Hill"? How about ponder "Grand Theft Auto III," infamous for its violent bent, as an examination of the human condition? |
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Programs: Nancy Drew Finds Danger in Whale Tale (Reuters). Reuters - (Gene Emery is a columnist who covers science and
technology. His Internet address is GEmery(at)Cox.net. Any
opinions in the column are his alone.) |
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The Science of Love |
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SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities
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Vulnerabilities: Microsoft Internet Explorer Unauthorized Clipboard Contents Disclosure Vulnerability. A vulnerability was reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer that could permit a remote site to gain access to contents of the client user's clipboard.
This vulnerabili... |
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Boing Boing Blog
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Happy Valentine's Day.  Love is all that matters.
(image: a snapshot I took at Burning Man 2003 -- full size here).
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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Cingular Said to Boost AT&T Wireless Bid (AP). AP - Cingular Wireless was planning to submit a new bid to buy AT&T Wireless for at least $31.9 billion, a source familiar with the situation said. |
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FCC Rules On Pulver Free World Dialup |
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SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities
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Vulnerabilities: Linux Kernel R128 Device Driver Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. The Linux Kernel supports numerous driver modules; one such is the R128 ATI Rage 128 bit video card driver module.
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Vulnerabilities: Linux Kernel 32 Bit Ptrace Emulation Full Kernel Rights Vulnerability. Unix and Unix-like kernels offer a debugging facility called ptrace. Ptrace allows for one process to 'attach' to another and inspect/modify it's memory. Updating certain... |
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Boing Boing Blog
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Happy Valentine's Day. Love is all that matters.
(image: a snapshot I took at Burning Man 2003 -- full size here).
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Slashdot
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Computers Replace Musicians In West End Musical |
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SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities
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Vulnerabilities: Apache Web Server Multiple Module Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. A vulnerability has been reported to exist in Apache that may allow a local attacker to gain unauthorized access by executing arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. The c... |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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Paper: Glitch Identifies Amazon Reviewers (AP). AP - Many sign their names. Many don't. They're the book reviewers on Amazon.com who use such words as "masterful," "page-turner" and "tear-jerker." But the ones who sign their critiques only as "a reader from (fill in the city)" lost their anonymity this week when their identities were revealed on Amazon.com's Canadian Web site. |
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Open Source Spreads Beyond Software |
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NewsIsFree: Security
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Íå âñå ýêñïåðòû âïàëè â ïàíèêó |
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Hackers getting new foe |
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CNET News.com - Front Door
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The future of intelligent robots. Knowledge@Wharton finds that while people tend to imagine robots in terms of science fiction or human worker replacements, the truth may be more mundane and less sinister. |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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Hackers get hold of Microsoft's crown jewels (AFP). AFP - Nothing is more sacred to the Microsoft than its crown jewels - the millions of lines of secret computer code that propelled it from garage startup to one of the world's wealthiest corporations. |
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Away on Business: On-Line Booking Grows (Reuters). Reuters - For many business travelers planning a
trip still means reaching for a telephone instead of
keyboarding onto the Internet. |
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Interplanetary Network (IPN) Tested |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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EBay now a hot spot for fashion (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - The online auction house once thought of as the fastest way to dump garage sale castoffs is now the place to buy and sell Jimmy Choo shoes, Salvatore Ferragamo alligator handbags and Etro coats. And this season, eBay is taking its fashion credentials further -- it will auction garments straight off the New York runways from hot young design team Proenza Schouler, six months before they hit the stores. |
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Defending Open Source Security |
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Wired News
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Windows Code for the Taking. A day after Microsoft said that part of the source code for its operating system had been leaked, all kinds of people were downloading pirate versions. Some of them may be up to a bit of no good. |
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Scientists Advance Hydrogen Tech. University of Minnesota researchers make hydrogen from ethanol in a prototype reactor that is small enough to generate power for homes and cars. It could help bring renewable hydrogen to the mass market. |
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The Russian Nesting Doll of Games. The object of The Sims, a popular video game, is to keep the characters happy in their daily lives. Now comes a fan-made plug-in that lets the in-game characters amuse themselves by -- what else? -- playing the SimCity video game. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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Copyright Enters a Gray Area. The Grey Album, which mixes music from the Beatles' White Album with lyrics from rapper Jay-Z's Black Album, is being hailed as a classic. EMI thinks it's a classic, too -- a classic case of copyright violation. By Noah Shachtman. |
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Dilbert
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Dilbert for 14 Feb 2004.  |
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Japan's DoCoMo gives up bidding for AT and T Wireless (AFP). AFP - Japan's top cellphone carrier NTT DoCoMo has decided to withdraw from bidding for AT and T Wireless because of its hefty price tag, reports said. |
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The Galaxy's Largest Diamond |
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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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Probing Halo's enduring appeal. What is it that gives some games enduring appeal, asks Daniel Etherington of BBCi Collective in his column. |
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NewsIsFree: Security
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Broker FTP Server Can Be Crashed By Remote Users Connecting/Disconnecting |
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OpenH323 PWLib Contains H.323/H.225 Processing Errors |
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Boing Boing Blog
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There's a club if you'd like to go. 
The photo inside The Smiths' The Queen is Dead album depicts the boys in front of the Salford Lads Club in Manchester, England. Ever since the record was released in 1986, the building has become a mecca for Smiths fans--a notoriously, er, dedicated bunch. At first, the Club was less than thrilled at being associated with the kinds of characters who would sing about "stealing lead from a church roof." Now though, the charity is dedicating an entire room to those charming men who made their gateway famous. Link (Thanks, Chris!)
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NewsIsFree: Security
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Secret Windows code leaked on Internet |
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Vendors aid convergence of networking, security |
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Adware spam targets instant messaging users |
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Chemical, Printable RFIDs |
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Firewall Protection for Paper Documents |
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RFID Journal |
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RFID Journal Live! - March 29 to 31, 2004 Hilton Chicag |
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Canadian Privacy Act |
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The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act |
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Canadian Recording Industry Goes After P2P Users |
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Ebay Fraud - Scamming the Scammer AlienWare |
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Boing Boing Blog
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Amazon discloses many reviews written by insecure, sniping writers. Amazon accidentally revealed the real names of many anonymous reviewers this week, through a bug in the amazon.ca back-end. It turns out that many of the reviewers are writers saying nice things about their own books or trashing their colleagues.
"That anybody is allowed to come in and anonymously trash a book to me is absurd," said Mr. Rechy, who, having been caught, freely admitted to praising his new book, "The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens," on Amazon under the signature "a reader from Chicago." "How to strike back? Just go in and rebut every single one of them...."
One well-known writer admitted privately -- and gleefully -- to anonymously criticizing a more prominent novelist who he felt had unfairly reaped critical praise for years. She regularly posts responses, or at least he thinks it is her, but the elegant rebuttals of his reviews are also written from behind a pseudonym.
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SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities
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BugTraq: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: W2K source "leaked"?. Sender: Drew Copley [dcopley at eeye dot com] |
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NewsIsFree: Security
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[FLSA-2004:1232] Updated slocate resolves security vulnerabilites |
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