contributed by Macki
Members of the hacker and open source communities worldwide, along with various civil liberties groups, are planning a massive leafletting campaign on Friday, February 4 to call attention to the recent attempts by the Motion Picture Association of America to shut down thousands of web sites.

Press Release
Open DVD
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contributed by Evil Wench
Recent plans by online advertiser DoubleClick to match web surfers with offline profiles for more targeted ad campaigns has caused concern among consumer advocacy groups. The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is calling for the public to send email to DoubleClick's CEO and 60 of the company's clients.

The Center for Democracy and Technology
C|Net

contributed by Space Rogue
Someone calling himself "Curador" posted over a thousand credit card numbers to a Xoom.com home page yesterday and claimed to have 4000 more. Xoom.com removed the page but it reappeared on Geocities a few hours later. The source of the numbers has not been revealed.

Internet News

contributed by Apocalyse Dow
The recently proposed plan to safeguard critical systems against cyber attacks is alarming privacy advocates. Critics of the plan say that it relies too much on monitoring and surveillance and not enough on making systems more secure. The director of The Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, John Tritak, has said that the plan is still in the planning stages and will evolve as time goes on.

InfoWorld
WIRED
Federal Computer Week
ZD Net

contributed by Code Kid
Microsoft is claiming a sales increase in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is the result of a massive anti-piracy campaign there. Microsoft has reported that while piracy rates in these countries are still above 72% (they were as high as 92% in some of countries) software sales have increased by as much as 500%. (Interesting how absolutely no other factors contributed to the increase in sales over the six month period, at least according to MS.)

Nando Times

contributed by freqout
PC World sees things that make them fear putting their data online, when anyone with a little knowledge of how web applications work, can gain access to other's data. Breaking Web applications has become the hack du jour over buffer overflows, fragmented packets, and default scripts/passwords. (This article specifically mentions Perfecto which seems to like the fear tactic way of selling its product, break into the site in front of the customer and then sell them your solution. Slimy.)

PC World