Nosce te ipsum

For anyone who has followed the long and often misunderstood story of Kevin Mitnick, since his first book, the Art of Deception was released, he has made mention of a forgotten chapter, which is forgotten only so far as the publisher forgot to publish it as they thought it would do more harm than good. That chapter has been floating around for awhile but was finally published on his girlfriends website which lends a bit of credibility to it.

For anyone interested in the hacker culture, this is an interesting read, although much of it has previously been covered elsewhere. There are a lot of opinions on Kevin's story and regardless of the crimes that he committed, he's paid his debt and I for one am happy to see him doing so incredibly well with his new company.

Normally I don't post about Apple's new product launches but with the kickoff of Apple Expo Paris, Steve Rubel posts about Apple's new Groups features of .Mac. It looks interesting, although pretty late to the game considering what Yahoo and others have been doing with social networking over the last year.

Give it a look, the video pretty much says it all. One thing that just completely jumps out on this is how can anyone, let alone Apple, launch a collaboration appllication in 2005 that does not natively support RSS!

Steve's little experiment worked and before long there were dozens of "me too" music stores springing up. Soon, the music industry noticed that hey, Steve to something and if there is money to be made, perhaps they are selling their wares too cheaply. There has been a lot of speculation that Apple would raise prices in the iTunes music store but it seemed like a really foolish idea implying only greed on the part of the record executives. Leave it to them to go and mess with a good thing and it looks like that is exactly what they want to do but Steve thinks otherwise.

MacMinute writes about:

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has said the music industry is "greedy for considering a hike in the price of digital downloads, warning such a move would drive users back to piracy," reports Reuters. "If they want to raise the prices, it means that they are getting greedy," said Jobs at a news conference in Paris today. "If the price goes up, they (consumers) will go back to piracy and everybody loses," he said.

Full article here