contributed by Macki
Martin Garbus, an internationally distinguished New York attorney, and his firm (Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein, and Selz) have been retained by the defense in the New York MPAA DeCSS case. Two of the three defendants have withdrawn under consent agreements, leaving only 2600 Magazine and its publisher Emmanuel Goldstein, as defendant. A trail date has been set for December 5, 2000.

2600 Electronic Frontier Foundation - They are providing funding, please show your support!

contributed by McIntyre
A suspect involving computer break-ins at NASA and the U.S. departments of energy, defense and transportation was indicted in San Jose on Wednesday. the indictment of Max Vision (Max Ray Butler) of Berkeley included charges of unauthorized access of a computer, recklessly causing damage and interception of electronic communication for a total of 15 counts. Max Vision was previously an FBI informant who turned himself in on Tuesday.

Associated Press - via Yahoo

contributed by Apocalyse Dow
The Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) will conduct a 'hacking contest'. the contest is set to start in June and will offer 100 Million Won in prize money for defeating a firewall. (If they really expect to get anything out this other than publicity they are sadly mistaken.)

Chosun

Found on Slashdot
This has been posted elsewhere it is just to cool not to link to. Who would have ever thought of hacking an iMac into a rack-mount? Definitely a cool hardware hack.

The iMac Rack-Mount Project