Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Flight ID Rules Fuel Fresh Furor. A privacy advocate who is suing the government for allegedly forcing airlines to ID passengers is pressing to have his case aired publicly. Government attorneys, meanwhile, want the court to hear their arguments in secret. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News] An intersting side affect of the [redacted] law that was signed just after [redacted] who's anniversary is [redacted]. Did you get all that? 8:36:00 AM    comment []

Open-source backers revolt against Microsoft antispam plan. The Apache Software Foundation and the Debian Project said they won't support the Sender ID e-mail authentication standard in their products. [Computerworld News] That's 2.  If Red Hat and/or IBM sign on, it's dead.  But many would argue it was dead from the day Microsoft proposed it.  After all, it really was nothing more than another marketing tool for the Redmond machine.  Anyone who thinks otherwise just isn't paying attention. 8:34:20 AM    comment []

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