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Tuesday, June 22, 2004
 

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Ars Technica
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1.  Personal Technology Freedom Coalition to support DMCRA. Now consumers' rights advocates have a new ally in the name of the Personal Technology Freedom Coalition, a technology industry coalition with members from the likes of Sun, Intel, Gateway, Verizon, BellSouth, SBC, and Qwest. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher.
2.  Microsoft begins to care about the browser wars, again. Since the advent of IE 6, Microsoft has lost focus on Internet Explorer. Having captured a dominant market share in the browser wars, the company slowed updates and has been sagging in terms of providing the features that make competing browsers cool. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher.
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3.  3Com Posts Lower Loss as Demand Grows (Reuters). Reuters - 3Com Corp. (COMS.O) on Tuesday posted a quarterly loss that was less than half its loss a year earlier on lower charges and as improved demand for networking equipment drove its first year-over-year sales growth in over five years.
4.  Largest ISPs Attack 'Zombies' (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The country's largest e-mail account providers called yesterday for a worldwide industry assault on "zombies," personal computers that have been unwittingly commandeered by spammers and used to send out unwanted e-mail and malicious programs.
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5.  BugTraq: DHCP Vuln // no code 0day //. Sender: System Administrator [lowdownhaxor at hotmail dot com]

11:27:43 PM    comment []

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1.  Utah judge freezes anti-spyware law. Adware maker WhenU.com challenged the Spyware Control Act on the grounds that it is unconstitutional.
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2.  Apple, BMW Introduce IPod Adapter (AP). AP - Apple Computer Inc. and BMW Group on Monday introduced an adapter that allows iPod and BMW customers to plug their music collections directly into their car sound systems.
3.  Oracle Weighed Takeover Bids for 9 Cos. (AP). AP - Takeover-hungry Oracle Corp. has made it clear that it intends to gobble up other companies no matter how its $7.7 billion bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft turns out, but the selections on its acquisition menu had been a secret — until now.
4.  Oracle Cites Microsoft as Looming Rival (Reuters). Reuters - Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O) on Tuesday said that Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) had already emerged as a rival in the market to sell business software to major enterprises, underscoring the competition Oracle faces as it prepares to take the offensive in an antitrust trial.
5.  Review: 'Riddick' Game Better Than Movie (AP). AP - Perhaps Vin Diesel should stick with video games: "The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay" is a superlative new title for the Xbox.
6.  Taiwan May Let Chip Testers, LCDs Into China -Paper (Reuters). Reuters - Taiwan may let low-end microchip testing and packaging companies, and producers of small liquid crystal displays (LCD) for mobile phones, invest in China, a newspaper quoted an economics official as saying on Wednesday.
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7.  U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011
8.  NASA Eyes Cash Prizes Of Its Own
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9.  The Digital ID World Newsletter - June 17, 2004 Issue
10.  Unreal Engine Heap Overflow, RBOT.CC, ISCAlert
11.  RE: Antivirus/Trojan/Spyware scanners DoS!
12.  Wireless Modem (BT Voyager 2000 Wireless ADSL Router cleartext password)
13.  Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages)
14.  [SECURITY] [DSA 522-1] New super packages fix format string vulnerability
15.  SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3 Security Update #4
16.  Re: Virus scan attack
17.  Re: Unusual Activity in Ad-aware 6 Personal, Build 6.181
18.  Antivirus/Trojan/Spyware scanners DoS!
19.  SGI Advanced Linux Environment 2.4 security update #22
20.  RE: COELACANTH: Phreak Phishing Expedition]
21.  Re: [Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 139-1] New super packages fix local root exploit
22.  linux kernel IEEE1394(Firewire) driver integer overflow vulnerabilities
23.  Re: exploiting overflowed kmalloc() memory?
24.  Administrivia: Technical difficulties
25.  mcafee dat corrupted? (was: Virus scan attack)
26.  Re: Virus Scan Attack
27.  [ESA-20040621-005] 'kernel' Several vulnerabilities
28.  Re: Unprivilegued settings for FreeBSD kernel variables
29.  [ GLSA 200406-17 ] IPsec-Tools: authentication bug in racoon
30.  MDKSA-2004:061 - Updated dhcp packages fix buffer overflow vulnerabilities
31.  [CLA-2004:845] Conectiva Security Announcement - kernel
32.  Re: Virus scan attack
33.  ArbitroWeb v0.6 Javascript injection vulnerability
34.  Re: Unusual Activity in Ad-aware 6 Personal, Build 6.181
35.  [SECURITY] [DSA 521-1] New sup packages fix format string vulnerabilities
36.  Google offers to rev up sites with two new services
37.  Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo unveil antispam guidelines
38.  Tech-heavy coalition supports fair-use legislation

10:27:23 PM    comment []

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1.  Et Cetera: post-shenanigans edition. Round up, including: The US Army has ordered a massive Xserve G5 cluster with 1566 nodes. Named "Mach 5," the system is expected to place as high as second in the world. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher.
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2.  Critical flaw found in game software. A hole in the "Unreal" game engine could let attackers take over vulnerable computers.
3.  Cingular moves ahead with high-speed plans. Wireless company scurries to make up lost ground as it races rivals to deliver 3G services.
4.  NT 4 laggards get reprieve on support. Support for the server version of Windows NT 4 is set to run out this year--but they can still get help if they pay for it, Microsoft says.
5.  Oracle moves to blunt Microsoft testimony. White paper showing frequent competition meant to counter Wednesday's DOJ witness.
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6.  3Com Posts Lower Loss as Demand Grows (Reuters). Reuters - 3Com Corp. (COMS.O) on Tuesday posted a quarterly loss that was less than half its loss a year earlier on lower charges and as improved demand for networking equipment drove its first year-over-year sales growth in over five years.
7.  Salesforce.com Prices IPO at $11 a Share (AP). AP - Online software pioneer Salesforce.com Inc. priced its closely watched IPO at $11 per share Tuesday, raising $110 million, or 38 percent more than the company originally anticipated.
8.  Sprint to Boost Wireless Network Speeds (AP). AP - Trying to keep pace with its rivals, Sprint Corp. is boosting speeds on its wireless data network by up to tenfold in a technology upgrade it says will cost about $1 billion.
9.  Classic Video Games Make a Comeback (AP). AP - When Rob O'Hara needs a serious video game fix, he unwinds a black rubber joystick and plays a few rounds of "Space Invaders" on his Atari 2600, vintage 1982.
10.  Hundreds More Sued Over Music File Swaps (AP). AP - The music industry filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 482 computer users Tuesday, the latest round of litigation by recording companies against suspected online music file-swappers.
11.  Microsoft Security Software Strategy Roils Sector (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) plans to offer its own anti-virus software and has a major security update to Windows in the works.
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12.  The RIAA Sues 482 More People
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InfoWorld: Top News
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13.  EDial updates Web gateway for Microsoft's enterprise IM. The company, eDial Inc., has improved the scalability and broadened the platform and browser support of its IM Web Access Server (IWA), which gives users access via a standard Web browser to Microsoft Corp.'s Live Communications Server (LCS) 2003 enterprise instant messaging system.
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14.  Google demotes Coca Cola jingle. Saving the world now hidden in IPO prospectus By Andrew Orlowski .
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15.  unsecure.zip
16.  TA04-174A.txt
17.  integcheck_1.0.0-1.tar.gz
18.  rpf-1.2.1.tar.gz
19.  dlink614.txt
20.  nmbscan-1.2.3.tar.gz
21.  eics-3.1.tar.gz
22.  nstx-1.1-beta5.tgz
23.  samhain-1.8.9.tar.gz
24.  hping3-alpha-2.tar.gz
25.  rkhunter-1.1.0.tar.gz
26.  osticket.txt
27.  rsshFlaw.txt
28.  unrealCodeExec.txt
29.  Elsewhere: Hackers attack Taiwan ruling party website
30.  Elsewhere: Towards a worm-free world

9:27:02 PM    comment []

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1.  Come work for EFF!. EFF is hiring! EFF is the best employer I've ever had -- including myself, when I was self-employed, and the company I helped found -- and it's hiring a new Membership Coordinator: the person in charge of satisfying current members and increasing membership. If this sounds like you, apply! X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 3.13876E-143; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2207 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67}

The Membership Coordinator reports to the Director of Development and is a key part of EFF's fundraising team. The MC is responsible for managing all contact with EFF's 12,000+ members, helping to develop strategies to grow the membership, processing all donations to EFF, mailing regular "thank-yous"and renewal notices to donors, ensuring an efficient donation system, managing the donation pages of the website, and responding to any issues donors may have. The MC also manages all aspects of EFF's online shop, including order fulfillment. Additional responsibilities include various marketing projects, including oversight of the design and printing of t-shirts, hats, stickers, brochures, and other materials. The MC also attends a number of commercial conferences each year, managing the EFF booth presence and speaking informally with conference attendees.

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2.  Xeni's tech report from "Erotica LA" adult trade show. The editor of Fleshbot dragged me to the Erotica Los Angeles convention this weekend to see if any geek news was hiding beneath the piles of neoprene genitalia and Paris Hilton DVDs. I met v14gr*a-spammers and gubernatorial porn stars. Took a bunch of snapshots, spotted a herd of Realdolls (shown at left) -- and I filed this report for Fleshbot. Link to full-size image at left. I'll be posting more snapshots from "the other Hollywood" soon.
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3.  Vivendi ex-boss leaves custody. The former boss of the French media giant is released following questioning by police investigating allegations of 'financial misappropriation' at the firm.
4.  Fake ID cards 'openly available'. False proof of age, student and national ID cards are all freely available to buy on the internet, a study reveals.
5.  New generation embraces mobiles. A new generation of mobile users are so attached to their phones that they cannot live with them, a survey finds.
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6.  Salesforce.com sets higher IPO price. A day before Wednesday's launch, Saleforce hikes its price past its previously announced range to $11.
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7.  Oracle Weighed Takeover Bids for 9 Cos. (AP). AP - Takeover-hungry Oracle Corp. has made it clear that it intends to gobble up other companies no matter how its $7.7 billion bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft turns out, but the selections on its acquisition menu had been a secret — until now.
8.  Oracle, Microsoft Clash Over Sales Deals (AP). AP - Oracle Corp. has clashed with rival Microsoft Corp. in dozens of recent business applications software deals, according to sales records that provide a glimpse at some of the evidence likely to be introduced Wednesday in a pivotal legal showdown.
9.  Sprint Plans High-Speed Mobile Services (Reuters). Reuters - Sprint Corp. (FON.N) said on Tuesday it would invest about $1 billion, mostly in 2005, to develop high-speed wireless data services to help it catch up with its biggest rival, Verizon Wireless.
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10.  Minix from Scratch Project Established
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InfoWorld: Top News
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11.  Sparks may fly at open source debate at JavaOne. SAN FRANCISCO - The stage is set for some fireworks on the last day of the JavaOne show next week, where Sun Microsystems Inc. has assembled a panel to debate the thorny issue of whether it should release its Java technology under an open source license.
12.  Tech-heavy coalition supports fair-use legislation. WASHINGTON - A group of technology vendors, consumer rights groups and Internet service providers (ISPs) have banded together to support 18-month-old U.S. House legislation that would allow consumers to make personal copies of copyrighted digital products, including movies and music.
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13.  Google offers to rev up sites with two new services. Google Inc. unwrapped two new search services for Web site publishers on Friday, promising to help them increase traffic and revenue from their sites, while extending the search giant's own reach in the online ad market.
14.  Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo unveil antispam guidelines. An industry organization representing heavyweight e-mail providers Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp., America Online Inc. and EarthLink Inc. released recommendations for ending unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail, according to a statement by the group.
15.  Tech-heavy coalition supports fair-use legislation. WASHINGTON - A group of technology vendors, consumer rights groups and Internet service providers (ISPs) have banded together to support 18-month-old U.S. House legislation that would allow consumers to make personal copies of copyrighted digital products, including movies and music.
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16.  Alliance turns up heat on spam
17.  SqWebMail print_header_uc Header XSS
18.  HP-UX xfs -port Argument Local Overflow

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1.  Network admins get peek at Microsoft's security. The software giant has learned from online threats, its information technology manager tells Security Summit attendees.
2.  Oracle shopping list includes eight other firms. Court documents offer a rare glimpse into how Oracle assessed eight companies other than PeopleSoft for possible acquisition.
3.  Clinton book mania explodes on the Web. Prices of autographed copies soar on eBay, while former president gets three of Amazon's top 10 slots.
4.  Oracle v. DOJ: Oracle's other targets. special coverage Court papers reveal Oracle's detailed assessments of possible acquisitions.
5.  Google adds to star power. Also: iPod plans turn car owners green and Jobs says his house is a dump.
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6.  3Com Posts Narrower Fourth-Quarter Loss (AP). AP - 3Com Corp., the maker of networking gear, Tuesday posted a narrower loss for its latest quarter and named a new chief financial officer.
7.  Salesforce Raises IPO Price Range (Reuters). Reuters - Salesforce.com Inc., whose on-demand software is considered among the fastest-growing in the technology sector, on Tuesday raised the proposed price range on its highly anticipated initial public offering to $9 to $10 per share from an earlier estimate of $7.50 to $8.50.
8.  HP Scales Up StorageWorks for Linux (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - The HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share system is capable of distributing files in parallel while sharing bandwidth from dozens to hundreds of clustered servers.
9.  ISPs Gang Up on Spammers (PC World). PC World - Even unwitting spammers could lose Internet access under tough proposal.
10.  Electronics Firms Take Step Toward Compatible Gadgets (Reuters). Reuters - A consortium of the world's largest computer and electronics companies on Tuesday established ground rules for building compatible electronic devices that can share movies, music and other media.
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11.  Building a Better Office
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InfoWorld: Top News
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12.  Microsoft competes, Oracle insists. Microsoft Corp. competes in the enterprise applications space, Oracle Corp. said in a white paper distributed one day before a top Microsoft executive is scheduled to testify to the contrary in the U.S. government's case to block Oracle's takeover of PeopleSoft Inc.
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13.  Vulns: Novell iChain SNMP Default Community String Vulnerability. Novell iChain Server is a web-based security product designed to implement and maintain various network-based access controls. iChain implements a web server with limite...
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14.  Ad-aware referencefile 01R324 22.06.2004
15.  The Cleaner Database v3609
16.  Network Associates denies sale rumors

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1.  Tool lets VoIP providers tap Yahoo IM. Sylantro product delivers VoIP to Yahoo IM customers--an industry first, the software developer says.
2.  Dialing up phones' future. As Supercomm 2004 gets rolling in Chicago, the talk turns to high-speed networks and new telephone features.
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3.  SBC to Spend Up to $6 Billion on Network (AP). AP - SBC Communications Inc. will spend between $4 billion to $6 billion over the next five years to build a network capable of transmitting high-speed Internet data, digital television and voice calls to residential and small business customers, the company's chief executive said Tuesday.
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4.  Red Hat Announces Certified Architect Curriculum
5.  Linux for Non-Geeks
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6.  Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo unveil antispam guidelines. An industry organization representing heavyweight e-mail providers Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp., America Online Inc. and EarthLink Inc. released recommendations for ending unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail, according to a statement by the group.
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7.  Elsewhere: Hackers attack Taiwan ruling party website. TAIPEI (AFP) - Suspected Chinese hackers have attacked the website of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), officials sai...
8.  Elsewhere: Towards a worm-free world. Microsoft chief security engineer George Statha-kopoulos has more reason than most to hate worm-writers. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 3.36596E-103; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2182 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67}

The US-based Stathakopoulos was enjoying a rare few hours of le...
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9.  BugTraq: [ GLSA 200406-17 ] IPsec-Tools: authentication bug in racoon. Sender: Thierry Carrez [koon at gentoo dot org]
10.  BugTraq: MDKSA-2004:061 - Updated dhcp packages fix buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Sender: Mandrake Linux Security Team [security at linux-mandrake dot com]
11.  BugTraq: Administrivia: Technical difficulties. Sender: David Ahmad [da at securityfocus dot com]
12.  Vulns: RSSH Information Disclosure Vulnerability. rssh is a shell that restricts users to utilizing scp or sftp. It also allows users to be placed into a chroot jail.

A vulnerability exists in rssh that could allow a u...
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13.  Network Associates denies sale rumors

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1.  The Digital ID World Newsletter - June 17, 2004 Issue
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2.  Briefly: Intel sells chip gear to Chinese start-up. roundup Plus: IBM faces gypsy holocaust suit...Motorola joins WiMax Forum...Microsoft names U.S. financial services chief.
3.  Virtual dollars trading for U.S. currency. Virtual money made via online community "Second Life" is being exchanged for real U.S. dollars.
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4.  3Com Posts a Lower Quarterly Loss (Reuters). Reuters - 3Com Corp.(COMS.O) on Tuesday posted a lower quarterly loss on smaller charges as the maker of networking equipment continued to work through its restructuring.
5.  Oracle Weighed Takeover Bids for 9 Cos. (AP). AP - Takeover-hungry Oracle Corp. has made it clear that it intends to gobble up other companies no matter how its $7.7 billion bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft turns out, but the selections on its acquisition menu had been a secret — until now.
6.  Sprint to Boost Wireless Network Speeds (AP). AP - Trying to keep pace with its rivals, Sprint Corp. is boosting speeds on its wireless data network by up to tenfold in a technology upgrade it says will cost about $1 billion.
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7.  US Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011
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8.  PNNL, SGI aim to turn storage wares into calculators. Can storage systems also become number crunchers? That's what a new research project, launched Tuesday by Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), aims to discover.
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9.  BugTraq: Re: Unusual Activity in Ad-aware 6 Personal, Build 6.181. Sender: Steve Ryan [sirsteve at internetcds dot com]
10.  BugTraq: Re: Virus scan attack. Sender: Vincent Archer [var at deny-all dot com]
11.  BugTraq: [CLA-2004:845] Conectiva Security Announcement - kernel. Sender: Conectiva Updates [secure at conectiva dot com dot br]
12.  BugTraq: linux kernel IEEE1394(Firewire) driver integer overflow vulnerabilities. Sender: [infamous41md at hotpop dot com]
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13.  Microsoft poo-poos Xbox 2 backwards compatibility 'fiction'. But if it's too early to say, why is MS saying anything? By Tony Smith .
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14.  Network Associates up for sale, sources say
15.  Foremost: a Linux computer forensics tool
16.  HNS audio learning session: the benefits of SSL VPNs
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17.  Hackers attack Taiwan ruling party website (AFP)
18.  TA04-174A: Multiple Vulnerabilities in ISC DHCP 3
19.  Is E-Mail Doomed?
20.  Multiple vulnerabilties in ISC's DHCP

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1.  Fantastical timepieces. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 5.96983E-139; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2156 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67}

The Wrist Fashion Blog has a stunning roundup of super-sexy new timepieces, including this melting Dali clock and a kitchen table surfaced with electroluminescent film that displays a digital readout of the time.

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(via Engadget)
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2.  Cisco pushes wireless kit for city services. Package of products is designed to help police, other safety officials roam in and out of wireless networks without interruption.
3.  Intel to sell chip gear to Chinese start-up. Intel plans to sell chipmaking equipment and process technology to a start-up contract chip manufacturer located near Shanghai, China.
4.  Network Associates denies sale rumors. The security company says neither Microsoft nor any other company has made an offer.
5.  Alliance turns up heat on spam. The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance, which includes AOL and other major ISPs, releases a set of best practices. Among their recommendations: Kill the "zombies."
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6.  IBM Patches Faulty ActiveX Controls (PC World). PC World - Security firm identifies critical security hole that could permit intruders to remotely control systems.
7.  Salesforce Raises IPO Price Range (Reuters). Reuters - Salesforce.com Inc., whose on-demand software is considered among the fastest-growing in the technology sector, on Tuesday raised the proposed price range on its highly anticipated initial public offering to $9 to $10 per share from an earlier estimate of $7.50 to $8.50.
8.  Cisco Targets Cities with Wireless Offering (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) will deliver broadband wireless access on a city-wide basis with new networking technology that targets public-sector customers in need of real-time mobile access to information.
9.  IPod Alternatives Shaking Up Market (Reuters). Reuters - Fitness buff Dr. Mark Hawkins bought his first iPod a year ago when the clunky CD player he used in morning workouts started giving Robert Plant, the singer of Led Zeppelin's blues-y "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" a bad stutter.
10.  Hundreds More Sued Over Music File Swaps (AP). AP - The music industry filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 482 computer users Tuesday, the latest round of litigation by recording companies against suspected online music file-swappers.
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11.  War Kayaking
12.  Open Source Life?
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13.  Intel to unveil 64-bit extensions in Nocona on Monday. Intel Corp. plans to unveil its first processor with 64-bit extensions technology next week, sources familiar with Intel's plans indicated Tuesday.
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14.  City firms still failing to guard WLans
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15.  Vulns: Infoblox DNS One Script Injection Vulnerability. The Infoblox DNS One appliance is a device used to manage DNS and DHCP and provides a web interface for device management.

The DNS One appliance has been reported prone ...
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16.  File traders put an end to Lollapalooza. Hell no! We won't go! By Ashlee Vance .
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17.  German police raid five more homes in Sasser Netsky computer worm investigation
18.  New Worm Spreads By Replying To All Mail
19.  Blue Coat unveils proxy antivirus appliance
20.  Sun creates new unit to target government

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1.  Cory on Asimov's I, Robot. I wrote the cover story for this month's Wired Magazine, about Asimov's robot stories and the new I, Robot movie. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 3.59639E-260; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2138 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67}

Yet Asimov's reductionist approach to human interaction may be his most lasting influence. His thinking is alive and well and likely filling your inbox at this moment with come-ons asking you to identify your friends and rate their "sexiness" on a scale of one to three. Today's social networking services like Friendster and Orkut collapse the subtle continuum of friendship and trust into a blunt equation that says, "So-and-so is indeed my friend," and "I trust so-and-so to see all my other 'friends.'" These systems demand that users configure their relationships in a way that's easily modeled in software. It reflects a mechanistic view of human interaction: "If Ann likes Bob and Bob hates Cindy, then Ann hates Cindy." The idea that we can take our social interactions and code them with an Asimovian algorithm ("allow no harm, obey all orders, protect yourself") is at odds with the messy, unpredictable world. The Internet succeeds because it is nondeterministic and unpredictable: The Net's underlying TCP/IP protocol makes no quality of service guarantees and promises nothing about the route a message will take or whether it will arrive.

This need for people to behave in a predictable, rational, measurable way recalls Mr. Spock's autistic inability to understand human emotion without counting dimples to discern happiness or frown lines to identify sorrow. It's likewise reminiscent of scientology, which uses quantitative charts of personality traits, such as "lack of accord" and "certainty," to help people become 100 percent happy, composed, and so on.

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2.  I F***ED ALEC BALDWIN IN HIS A**. Hollywood is full of odd, smiling creatures, and Dessarae Bradford is one of them. I met her at the Erotic LA convention this weekend -- I was wandering around in a daze shooting photos, squired around by the editor of Fleshbot. The self-published book I FU*KED ALEC BALDWIN IN HIS A*S is Ms. Bradford's purportedly autobiographical account of a colorful sexual encounter with the famed actor. The number and position of asterisks in the title change from time to time. Snip from the book's promo site:

"In Sept. 2002, I fu**ed Alec Baldwin in his a** in a hot, sweaty, nasty sex romp. Read the story that will change lives. Be the first one on your block to have the nitty gritty about that night, that will be only told in my book. Grab the scoop before my story gets into the hands of the media, and they attemp to censor it. I had Alec Baldwin on all four's for me, and S/M was involved. Read the real story. Tell everyone you know about this site. Free Baldwin brothers, and family photos come with this book, and a free I FU**ED ALEC BALDWIN IN HIS A** bumper sticker too."
I'm not so sure that the "free Baldwin brothers" offer will go over big in this town -- you might say we've had our fill. Is Ms. Bradford's story true? I don't know, but don't believe everything you read at a porn convention.
Link to book website. I shot these snapshots of Ms. Bradford: one, two. Link to Fleshbot's coverage.
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3.  PeopleSoft CEO blasts Ellison's 'jealousy'. Craig Conway says his company will beat leader SAP, but keeps quiet on Oracle's ongoing takeover attempt.
4.  RIAA takes hundreds more 'John Does' to court. It's a year since the music industry group launched its campaign against file-swapping. But have the lawsuits had any impact?
5.  Apple again extends free iBook repair program. The Mac maker now says older models with faulty logic boards eligible for free replacement.
6.  Cisco pushes mobile wireless kit for public safety. Package of products is designed to help police, other officials roam in and out of wireless networks without interruption.
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7.  Apple Servers To Power No. 2 Supercomputer (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - COLSA will use Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Xserve G5 servers to build what the company says will be the world's second-fastest supercomputer.
8.  Salesforce.com Raises IPO Target Price (AP). AP - Online software pioneer Salesforce.com Inc. has raised the target price of its closely watched IPO by nearly 20 percent, providing the latest sign of the stock market's renewed interest in taking risks on young companies.
9.  Mini Transistors May Give Microprocessors a Maxi Boost (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Tiny transistors could speed cell phones and computers in a big way, says a computer-science researcher at University of California, Irvine (UCI).
10.  Maine Schools Embracing Laptops As Tool (AP). AP - Maine's education commissioner has obtained assurances from at least 47 superintendents that they're ready to press forward with laptops in high schools this fall, giving her confidence that a deal can be struck with Apple Computer Corp.
11.  Koreans Flood Wrong Al Jazeera Web Site on Hostage (Reuters). Reuters - South Koreans bombarded an English-language "Al Jazeera" Web site on Tuesday to urge Muslim militants not to behead a South Korean hostage, but the site did not belong to the Arabic television station of that name.
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1.  Loudeye buys OD2 music service. US-based Loudeye acquires European online music service OD2 to help battle with bigger rivals in the cut-throat music downloads market.
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2.  Microsoft names U.S. financial services chief. Software maker also taps new manager of services operations within the financial unit.
3.  Motorola joins WiMax Forum. The chipmaker sets a date for release of products based on the 802.16 wireless specification.
4.  Sprint plans faster wireless data services. The company plans to give mobile Web surfers access to broadband speeds before the end of the year, in some areas.
5.  Briefly: Motorola joins WiMax Forum. roundup Plus: Microsoft names U.S. financial services chief...MusicNow shifts management...EMC updates management software.
6.  PeopleSoft CEO blasts Ellison's "jealousy". Craig Conway says his company will beat leader SAP, but keeps quiet on Oracle's ongoing takeover attempt.
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7.  MTI's Fuel Cells Keep Handhelds Humming (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - MTI MicroFuel Cells claims its Mobion technology extends the life of a handheld computer two to 10 times as long as a conventional battery pack.
8.  Unplug Spam-Sending PCs, Internet Providers Say (Reuters). Reuters - Consumers who allow their infected computers to send out millions of "spam" messages could be unplugged from the Internet under a proposal released on Tuesday by six large e-mail providers.
9.  Search Rivals Gun Their Engines (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - With Google's public stock offering just about ready to roll, rivals Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo are doing whatever they can to keep the customers they have and pilfer the ones they don't. But Google also is upping the ante with new features of its own.
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11.  PeopleSoft's CEO thanks customers for support. LONDON - Speaking at the London stop of PeopleSoft Inc.'s "Leadership Summit" tour, company President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Craig Conway on Tuesday thanked customers for their ongoing support as the company attempts to get on with business while Oracle Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice argue in a San Francisco federal court over Oracle's hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft.
12.  Fujitsu announces new servers with 90-nanometer chips. Fujitsu Ltd. became the latest chip maker to introduce a 90-nanometer product with the launch of a faster version of its Sparc64 V processor for enterprise servers, the company announced Tuesday.
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15.  Secure Wireless Hotel Network Installation
16.  UK Ebay Fraud Auctions - How to Identify a UK Mobile Phone
17.  Death of the Security Engineer

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1.  MasterCard tackles phishing. Company wants to attack scammers before they rip off consumers' data, rather than chase down criminals after they've victimized people.
2.  Yahoo beefs up Net phone features. The company is partnering with a VoIP specialist to strengthen the features it offers through its free instant-messaging client.
3.  SBC plans billions on high-speed fiber. Microsoft's Internet TV technology is part of what's coming as the carrier races to keep its customers.
4.  Dialing up phones' future. As Supercomm 2004 gets rolling in Chicago, the talk turns to high-speed networks and new telephone features.
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5.  Newt Gingrich Pushing 'Wired' Hospitals (AP). AP - Medical care would be improved and millions of dollars would be saved if hospitals were fully wired, said Rep. Patrick Kennedy and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who jointly announced a program to bring American medicine into the Internet age.
6.  Cingular Plans High-Speed Mobile for '05 (Reuters). Reuters - Cingular Wireless wants to move up the timetable for its high-speed Internet service to next year, but it will need to lean on equipment makers to succeed, a top executive told Reuters.
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9.  Blue Coat unveils proxy antivirus appliance. A new security appliance from Blue Coat Systems Inc. will allow companies to scan Web traffic to their network at a high speed, spotting viruses and malicious file downloads from Web pages or Web-based e-mail at the network perimeter, the company said on Monday.
10.  Sun creates new unit to target government. Sun Microsystems Inc. has created a new unit to target government business and appointed one of its top executives to lead the group, it said Tuesday.
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12.  Gates' money-pile now bigger than galaxy. It was five years ago today... 22 June 1999 By Team Register .
13.  US hardcore not interested in the Net. Are you a 'Resistor' or just 'Unconnected'? By Tim Richardson .
14.  US and EU kiss and make up over Galileo. European satnav system is go By electricnews.net .
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16.  Stealth Wallpaper Could Keep WLANs Secure
17.  MasterCard Looks to Crack Down on Phishing
18.  Usermin Input Validation Hole in E-mail Lets Remote Users Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
19.  osTicket Attachments Directory Permissions Let Remote Users View or Execute Certain Files on the System

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1.  Who owns recordings of numbers stations?. Interesting summary of a case where an indie label sued a major for copyright infringment, and where the indie is totally and utterly in the wrong.

Irdial is a tiny label that released a CD of intercepts from "numbers stations" -- the radio stations where a neutral voice recites mysterious numbers and codes, presumed to be part of the international espionage system.

WEA is the major label for Wilco, whose album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot samples the numbers stations recordings on Irdial's album.

Irdium sued WEA for copyright infringement -- in other words, they claimed that they owned the mysterious voices that float in the ether all around us at every hour of the day and night. They claimed that they, and not the spook who recited the words Yankee Hotel Foxtrot into his mic over and over again, were somehow the creators of the mysterious broadcast. Unfortunately, WEA settled instead of countersuing Irdium into a smoking heap of slag for proffering this notion that absolutely offends reason.

Joe Graz has some analysis on his blog: X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 4.5029E-258; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2091 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67}

They claim, first, that their recording is unique because of the radio interference that surrounds it, and that this interference gives them a copyright in the recording. Second, they edited the recording to make it more interesting. Third, they processed the recording to make it clearer . Each of these, they say, gives them exclusive rights in their recording.

I don't know UK copyright law very well, so I don't know whether this claim has more merit there. But under American law, Irdial probably would have lost had the case gone to trial. First, simply recording a radio broadcast does not give a person rights in the recording. A recording of a preexisting transmission does not have the requisite originality for copyrightability. Second, Irdial's editing may have been sufficient "selection and arrangement" to give rise to a copyright in the whole track, preventing wholesale verbatim copying. But from the description they give, there were no edits within the "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" sample; the sample Wilco used was an unedited slice of Irdial's source material, and thus Irdial's edits cannot have given rise to copyright in the sample. Finally, the equalization and processing. Irdial admits that the EQ was "to remove noise" – not for any creative purpose.

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2.  Photoessay of the NYC commute.

This photoessay, called "Commute," is a captivating collection of images from the morning commute in NYC.

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3.  Mobile phone antenna disguised as a churchtop crucifix.

There are Euro companies that specialise in camouflaged cellular masts and antennae, as a sop to people who worry that these eyesores irradiate their children's gonads. One such firm is now manufacturing an antenna disguised as a crucifix, intended to go on the steeples of churches where they need really good mobile reception.

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4.  Seizure dogs as assistance animals for epileptics. New research confirms the anaecdotal evidence of dogs accurately predicting epileptic seizures.

These dogs not only protect their charges from injuries, such as falling, but also seem to help kids deal with the daily struggle of epilepsy.

Nine of the 60 dogs in the study (15 per cent) were able to predict a seizure by licking, whimpering, or standing next to the child. These dogs were remarkably accurate - they predicted 80 per cent of seizures, with no false reports.

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5.  NYC pizza guide on iPod. Here's an iPod-based guide to the pizzerias of New York city, organised by borough.

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6.  Roll-your-own Zelda. Zelda Classic is a faithful (modulo updated graphics) recreation of the original NES Legend of Zelda game. It includes an SDK for making your own Zelda foes, levels and quests.

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7.  USB keychain with cam and voice-corder.

The LipStick 5in1 is a USB keychain drive with a built-in voice recorder and a digital camera that can also serve as a webcam.

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8.  Boeing to build India satellite. The US licenses Boeing 's satellite unit to work on building commercial satellites with India's space agency.
9.  Treo sales boost PalmOne profits. PalmOne sees its profits surge on bumper sales of its Treo 600 combination mobile phone and digital organiser.
10.  Rooney sparks net names scramble. People are snapping up web links with the name of the top Euro 2004 scorer Wayne Rooney.
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11.  Salesforce.com sets higher goal for stock offering. Wednesday's expected IPO could take in $100 million, as bankers raise pricing range to $9 to $10 per share.
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12.  MS Software Assurance Versus Red Hat Network (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Opinion: Who gets the better deal when it comes to added software goodness? It's not even a close contest, Linux & Open Source Editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols says.
13.  NY Promoter Wants Springsteen to Upstage Bush (Reuters). Reuters - A New York concert promoter has mounted an online campaign to "draft" Bruce Springsteen to headline a rock 'n roll show to upstage the Republican National Convention on the night it nominates President Bush to run for another term.
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15.  Oracle says Siebel would be its second choice. If Oracle Corp.'s takeover of PeopleSoft Inc. falls through, the Redwood Shores, California-based software maker may go after its second choice: Siebel Systems Inc.
16.  Sun creates new unit to target government. Sun Microsystems Inc. has created a new unit to target government business and appointed one of its top executives to lead the group, it said Tuesday.
17.  Microsoft enhancing business intelligence in SQL Server. Microsoft on Tuesday is releasing the first service pack for the SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services business intelligence platform.
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21.  Foremost: a Linux computer forensics tool
22.  News Briefs
23.  New gadgets take on 'Starbucks' security threat
24.  Akamai Attack Reveals Increased Sophistication
25.  News Briefs
26.  Technology Briefs
27.  Securing business intelligence
28.  Cisco releases Network Admission Control products
29.  New gadgets take on 'Starbucks' security threat

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1.  Translating my talk into Italian on a Wiki. Luca Lizzeri is working to translate my DRM talk into Italian -- there's a Wiki where you can contribute! X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 1.96031E-056; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2079 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67}

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2.  The Hill's property rights showdown. With the DMCA under attack from all quarters, Congressman Rick Boucher says it's time to rethink the controversial law.
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3.  Salesforce Raises IPO Price Range (Reuters). Reuters - Software maker Salesforce.com Inc. on Tuesday raised the proposed price range on its pending initial public offering to $9 to $10 per share from an earlier estimate of $7.50 to $8.50 per share.
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5.  Computational Origami and David Huffman
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8.  Aussie troops to become Wi-Fi GIs. LAN of the free... By Tony Smith .
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1.  X-Prize runs 'may have to wait'. Technical issues may delay an attempt by SpaceShipOne to claim a $10m suborbital space prize.
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2.  AOL quits enterprise IM game. The ISP follows in the footsteps of rival Yahoo by discontinuing its instant-messenger software for businesses.
3.  Sun names exec for new government sales office. Clark Masters returns to Sun after he was ousted in April from his job leading the high-end server group.
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4.  Sprint to Offer High-Speed Wireless Data (Reuters). Reuters - Sprint Corp. (FON.N) said on Tuesday that it would begin to offer high-speed wireless data services in the second half of 2004, adding the majority of top metropolitan markets in the United States in 2005.
5.  Koreans Flood Wrong Al Jazeera Web Site on Hostage (Reuters). Reuters - South Koreans bombarded an English-language "Al Jazeera" Web site on Tuesday to urge Muslim militants not to behead a South Korean hostage, but the site did not belong to the Arabic television station of that name.
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6.  Boucher's Anti-DMCA Bill Gets High Profile Allies
7.  Transgaming releases "WineX" 4.0 "Cedega"
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8.  Privacy advocates: RFID technical review needed. WASHINGTON -- Privacy advocates called for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission or other government agencies to initiative a comprehensive assessment of the potential effects of RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, during an FTC workshop on RFID Monday.
9.  Hitachi GST plans big hard-disk plant in China. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. is planning to spend up to $500 million to build a hard-disk drive manufacturing center in China, the company said Monday.
10.  Blue Coat unveils proxy antivirus appliance. A new security appliance from Blue Coat Systems Inc. will allow companies to scan Web traffic to their network at a high speed, spotting viruses and malicious file downloads from Web pages or Web-based e-mail at the network perimeter, the company said on Monday.
11.  Apple adds HPC customer but falls from Top500. Apple Computer Inc. took a step forward and a step backward Monday in its quest to prove itself a viable player in the world of high performance computing (HPC).
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12.  Intertrust ready for DRM role. Set to move on after MS settlement By Faultline .
13.  People must come first in e-government. A bit radical? By Lucy Sherriff .
14.  MS 'to drop' Xbox compatibility from Xbox 2. New console, new games By Tony Smith .
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16.  D-Link DI-614+ AirPlus DHCP Script Insertion Vulnerability
17.  nCipher netHSM Logfile Pass Phrase Disclosure
18.  Spyware Bill Gets House Panel OK
19.  Network Associates Up For Sale, Sources Say
20.  Cisco Delivers Integrated Security Features
21.  USB Token Checks Out PCs Returning to the Office
22.  Standards for E-Signatures
23.  nCipher netHSM Logfile Pass Phrase Disclosure
24.  SqWebMail "print_header_uc()" Function Script Insertion Vulnerability
25.  D-Link DI-614+ AirPlus DHCP Script Insertion Vulnerability
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26.  Microsoft Buying Network Associates?. Is it April 1st? This almost seems like one of those stories you hear on April Fool's Day. I wouldn't picture Bill Gates as one of those guys with the "I Brake For Yard Sales" bumper stickers on his Mercedes,...

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1.  Splinter Cell sequel tops charts. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming.
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2.  Trying to make Web services make sense. Multiple standards muddy the waters and keep customers from taking the Web services plunge.
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3.  European Stocks Dip on Vexing ZEW (Reuters). Reuters - European equities dipped on Wednesday after a disappointing report on German investor sentiment and as cellphone giant Vodafone fell on competition fears and fresh talk an executive may resign.
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4.  SpaceShipOne triumphs. Space tourism, here we come? By Lester Haines .
5.  C# Programming - explore, modify and extend. Site Offer Save 30% at The Register Bookshop By Team Register .
6.  Peter Gabriel sells digital music firm. Loss-making OD2 and Loudeye join... er... forces By Tony Smith .
7.  PalmOne posts Q4 profit. Upbeat for The Street By John Oates .
8.  SIP pundit fires broadside at Skype. VoIP catfight hots up By Faultline .
9.  Intertrust ready for DRM role. Set to move on after MS settlement By Lester Haines .
10.  Ofcom bungles Tiscali broadband ad ruling. Jumping the gun By Tim Richardson .

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1.  Oracle looked at 9 firms as prospects (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Oracle considered at least nine software acquisition targets before launching its hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft in June 2003, according to testimony and documents presented Monday in the Oracle antitrust trial.
2.  Thinking outside the TV box (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - With TiVo's fast-forward, viewers' shrinking attention spans and new media choices, the 30-second TV ad has more rivals for consumers' attention. That is pushing marketers' thinking increasingly outside the TV box for ways to make the costly but still dominant commercial work harder.
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4.  Intel launches 90nm Celerons. Prescott Jr. By Tony Smith .
5.  Tiffany sues eBay over fakes. Your site, your responsibility... By John Oates .
6.  MPs slams Customs on suck it and see IT. Hey, that's our money you're throwing away By John Oates .
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10.  GNU Radius SNMP Invalid OID Denial of Service Vulnerability
11.  Unreal Engine "secure" Query Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
12.  Opera Address Bar Spoofing Security Issue
13.  IRCD-Hybrid / ircd-ratbox Socket Dequeuing Denial of Service Vulnerability
14.  EnGarde update for kernel
15.  Gentoo update for apache

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1.  US cinema reward to stop piracy. Cinema staff in the US are offered up to $500 (£275) if they catch anyone using a camcorder to record a movie.
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2.  BugTraq: IE/0DAY -> Insider Prototype. Sender: [liudieyu at umbrella dot name]
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3.  Watch out for the bogus invoice man. Summertime and the scammin' is easy By Tim Richardson .
4.  Intel invests in smart antennae to drive Wi-Fi, WiMAX. Mo' funding for Motia By Tony Smith .
5.  AMD defeats Intel in US Supreme Court. Chip giant must now hand over documents to EC By Tony Smith .
6.  CopperEye releases datablade for Informix. Go faster stripe By IT-Analysis .
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7.  Alternative Fuels Cropping Up. British scientists urge farmers to grow crops that can produce plastics, oils and other products currently made from fossil fuels. They say the climate is warming and crude supplies will soon be exhausted.
8.  Court: Names Must Be Revealed. The Supreme Court says people must give their names to cops when they ask for it, and cops have the right to arrest people who refuse. One privacy advocate says the government just turned silence into a crime.
9.  Docs Find SARS in Patients' Tears. Singapore researchers discover the highly infectious respiratory illness can be spread through tears. Even better, tears can help detect and isolate the virus in the early phase of infection.
10.  Private Space Shot a Success. SpaceShipOne climbs to an altitude of 62 miles Monday before dropping safely to the ground. It's the first privately financed manned excursion into space. Dan Brekke reports from Mojave, California.
11.  Blind Get Earful of Spam Daily. It's annoying to read spam. It's even worse to hear it. Blind users rely on text-to-speech programs to hear what's on their screens, and they face an aural assault daily. By Amit Asaravala.
12.  Nano Killers Aim at Mini Tumors. Two nanotechnologies under development hone in on proteins produced by bloodthirsty cancers, allowing doctors to find tumors as small as 1 mm across. By Kristen Philipkoski.
13.  NASA Spaces on Energy Solution. Beaming power gathered by satellites to Earth could help satisfy the world's need for energy, and several nations are researching it. However, the country with the biggest pockets -- the United States -- has taken a pass. By John Gartner.
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14.  Insurgents kill 4 Marines
15.  Brass to testify on abuse at prison

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1.  Effort to save UK's web heritage. Millions of web pages covering life in the UK are to be archived in a trial project led by the British Library
2.  Finance firms risking wi-fi woe. Many wi-fi networks in Europe's financial districts are wide open to attack, a survey has found.
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3.  S.Korea Government to Show North Television on Web (Reuters). Reuters - South Korea plans to use a government Web site to broadcast edited North Korean television news programs to help people in the South learn more about the far side of the Demilitarized Zone, an official said on Tuesday.
4.  Philips Launches World's Fastest DVD Burner (Reuters). Reuters - Philips Electronics has launched the world's first 16-speed DVD writer, which can burn a disc in less than six minutes, the Dutch group said on Tuesday.
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6.  Microsoft sues over South American drug allegations. Asks for definition of FUD By Andrew Orlowski .
7.  Larry Ellison's shopping list. Siebel, BEA, and the Soviet Air Force By Andrew Orlowski .
8.  Internet inventor Vint Cerf vows to network chickens. SuperComm So he can watch them cluck from Mars By Ashlee Vance .
9.  AMD reveals Opteron crash bugs. Fixes pipelined By Tony Smith .
10.  Motorola files for Freescale IPO. Sets a stock price range, but not a date By Tony Smith .
11.  Merrill Lynch drops out of Google IPO. Updated prospectus By John Oates .
12.  Have 419ers bled Africa dry?. Shocking evidence of fiscal collapse By Lester Haines .

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2.  Climate film put to computer test. Computer users worldwide are joining an experiment to test the plot of the movie The Day After Tomorrow.
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3.  Broadband Becomes a Campaign Issue (PC World). PC World - Presidential candidates (and contributors) weigh in on Internet regulation, taxes, and access issues.
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4.  Fujitsu unleashes 90nm SPARC64. Warming up for Sun By Ashlee Vance .

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1.  Tunneling ssh over DNS. Dan Kaminsky, the Jedi master of packet-level hacking, has figured out how to tunnel ssh over DNS, a stupendously weird and cool feat. Ever been at an airport or coffee shop with WiFi that redirects you over and over again to the same captive portal page no matter what you do? With Kaminsky's tool, you could circumvent any captive portal that allows DNS to slip through. Here's the presentation he gave at the LayerOne conference in Los Angeles. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 2.0871E-077; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 1997 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67}

Reverse Serial Propagation

Can be quickly and statelessly deployed

* Scan networks with generic recursive probe
* For each incoming request seeking to service the probe, return whatever(TTL=0) and probe with an actual block request
 - If a block request comes back from the recurser, populate the server
 -If the population packet drops, the upstream should retransmit
* Move back through the file after each server group fills up
* Can be much slower to populate!

480k Powerpoint Link

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3.  Wallpaper designed to protect Wi-Fi networks
4.  rlpr msg() Overflow
5.  rlpr msg() Format String Error
6.  WWW-SQL File Include Overflow
7.  PHP FirstPost article.php Path Disclosure
8.  All-Mail RCPT TO Overflow
9.  phpMyChat usersL.php3 R Variable SQL Injection
10.  KAME Racoon X.509 Invalid Certificate Validation
11.  Nation's first spyware laws to go before Parliament
12.  U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right
13.  2003 Term Opinions of the Court
14.  Court: If police ask, you must give your name
15.  Confession For Two: A Spammer Spills it All

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1.  A student's scarlet letter. A student at at a Japanese high school dozed off in class last week. As punishment, his teacher made him write an apology letter.... in his own blood. Later, the teacher confessed to the principal. It gets even stranger. According to the principal, quoted in this Reuters article, the other faculty in the room didn't notice when the boy was handed a box cutter. Apparently, they didn't see him cut his own finger open and start writing either. Even more suspicious is that the teacher will be back at work in a few days and neither the boy nor his parents has asked for a transfer into a different class. Link X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 1.03391E-145; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 1984 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67}
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2.  Fujitsu revs faster server chip. New Sparc64 processor assumes greater importance with the company's alignment with Sun.
3.  Sun names exec for new government sales job. Clark Masters, who formerly ran Sun's high-end server group, will take over the new Global Government Office.
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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4.  Oracle Mulled Other Software Takeovers (Reuters). Reuters - Software vendors Siebel Systems Inc. (SEBL.O) and BEA Systems Inc. (BEAS.O) were potential acquisition targets for Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O), Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison said in court testimony on Monday.
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SecurityFocus Vulns
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5.  BugTraq: ZoneAlarm Pro 'Mobile Code' Bypass Vulnerability. Sender: Kurczaba Associates advisories [advisories at kurczaba dot com]
6.  BugTraq: DLINK 614+, script injection vulnerability. Sender: c3rb3r [c3rb3r at sympatico dot ca]
7.  BugTraq: Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability?. Sender: Chris Brown [chris at wavetex dot com]
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NewsIsFree: Security
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8.  Outlook's security compromised by spammers
9.  Worried about your health? Check your spam
10.  Microsoft's Anti-Virus Strategy Keeps Users Guessing
11.  Hercules 3.0 Beefs Up
12.  Blue Coat Rolls Out Web Anti-Virus Appliance
13.  Rate Limiting as an Anti-Spam Tool
14.  Guide :: Colinux, Part 2
15.  Guide :: Colinux
16.  Unusual Activity in Ad-aware 6 Personal, Build 6.181
17.  Libpng 'pngrtran' Offset Buffer Overflow May Let Remote Users Deny Service or Execute Code Via Affected Applications
18.  ASP-Rider Lets Remote Users Gain Administrative Access
19.  Microsoft MN-500 Wireless Base Station Lets Remote Users Deny Administrative Access

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Boing Boing
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1.  Gillmor: Sprint's attempt to de-camera cameraphones is silly. Dan Gillmor has written an insightful column about Sprint's announcement that it will soon sell camera-free Treo 600 camera phones. Sprint wants to satisfy customers fearful of internal corporate espionage, but Gillmor says resistance is futile:
I suppose it's always better to sell what the customer wants. But I have bad news for Sprint's worried customers: This won't help much, because the pace of technology means cameras will soon disappear from view, embedded in clothing and eyeglasses, not just phones.

Sprint's move highlights one more set of issues we have to confront in a world of digital information. Whether we're talking about photos or videos or documents or just about anything else that can be converted into zeroes and ones, we're entering a changed world.

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2.  New Sun Division Focuses on Govt. Sales (Reuters). Reuters - Sun Microsystems Inc. said on Monday it named longtime executive Clark Masters to run a new division at the network computer maker focused on selling software, computers and servers to government customers.
3.  Oracle to End Licensing Deal with NetSuite (Reuters). Reuters - Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O) has agreed to end a licensing deal with start-up company NetSuite, executives of the two firms said, as Oracle plans to expand its own Web-based products, calling them the future of software.
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4.  Army Contractor To Build A 1566 Xserve Cluster
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5.  Code execution in the Unreal Engine through secure packet

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