contributed by Space Rogue
After meeting with privacy groups on Thursday Intel was unable to convince them to drop the impending boycott of its new Pentium III line of processors. Each new processor, some already in the hands of computer manufacturers, will have a unique ID number embedded within it. Intel hoped that this would assist e-commerce in determining who was buying merchandise on the net. Privacy groups say it is a way to track people on the net. Intel agreed to ship the chips with the number 'turned off' this however was not satisfactory to the organizers of the boycott who have called for its expansion to include computer manufacturers.

Nando Times
PC World
Electronic Privacy Information Center - Boycott Organizers
JunkBusters - Boycott Organizers
Salon Magazine- An Excellent OpEd piece about this whole mess

contributed by zemac
Dark Eclipse Software has released AIM Recover 2.0. A utility for recovering passwords and buddy lists from AOL Instant Messenger. The new version of this brute force auditing utility no longer requires the use of runtime files.

Dark Eclipse Software

contributed by Tetbrac
A security software company announced that www.encryption.com now hosts a server that will encrypt/decrypt files for you through your browser for free in an attempt to provide strong cryptography to individuals outside the U.S. This is legal since the encryption export restrictions apply only to encryption engines, not encrypted files themselves. The obvious problem with this system is that you have to upload your plaintext and key to the server (according to the article, via SSL). Whether this is a viable alternative to weakened foreign cryptography tools I don't know, but it is at least an interesting implementation of getting around these restrictions.

Encryption.com
News Page

contributed by mmac
China has arrested fifty one people in connection with a railway 'hacking' attempt. The fraud involved upgradeing cheap tickets to more expensive ones after breaking into the railways computer system.

ABC News

contributed by ANONY-mouse
I.E. 4.0 has yet another bug. This bug allows outside users to access the local Hard Drive. So if you are running I.E. 4.0 you are vulnerable. The Cross Frame Navigate Vulnerability has been fixed twice before but new issues keep being discovered. Gosh, maybe people need to learn that Netscape just might be better and that Microsoft seems to have problems writing secure unbuggy code.

News.com

contributed by Code Kid
The Business Software Alliance has issued an ultimatum to a London based daily classified ad newspaper known as 'Loot'. The BSA has told Loot that they must stop advertising pirated software or face sanctions from Briton's Trading Standards authority.

ZD Net