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This site is still in Beta mode. You may notice periods of slow updates. Expect cool new features to appear soon.
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HFG hacks the New York Times
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contributed by Space Rogue
HFG succeeded in hacking the prestigious New York Times web site and got alot of press in doing so. Our question is how long have they been vulnerable and didn't know it? How many minor changes where made to various web pages spreading misinformation. This is why corporate security is so important.
BBC
CNN
Internet News
Nando Times
CMP Net
MSNBC
Wired
ZD Net
CNN changed thier story midway through the day. Here is the revised version.
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Kevin Mitnick denied bail by the Supreme Court
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contributed by Simple Nomad
The injustice continues. Kevin Mitnick has been denied his emergancy application for bail by the Supreme Court.
Free Kevin
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FCC extends wiretap deadline
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contributed by Space Rogue
The 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA),
required telephone carriers to alter their networks to allow wiretapping
on digital lines by 25 October 1998. After receiving a bunch of complaints from
companies that said they could not meet that deadline, the FCC pushed
back the date to June 30, 2000. Yippeee!
Wired
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Build your own MP3 player.
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Link found at slashdot.org
With all the mess surrounding portable MP3 players it would be nice to build your own before the record companies stomp them out. Now for about $50 in parts and little time behind the soldering iron you can. (I had trouble connecting this morning)
alaska.net
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Cryptographer gets a break.
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contributed by Space Rogue
Charles Booher, under federal investigation for posting encryption
software on the Web won a three-week reprieve in court Wednesday.
CMP Net
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contributed by Anonymous
Son of CDA is whizzing through congress at an alarming rate.
Wired
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contributed by Space Rogue
Simple teardrop attack takes out Technology High School in Nevada. They
should have known better.
Wired
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Consumers have no protection from software vendors.
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contributed by Space Rogue
Section 2B of the Universal Commercial Code will exempt software vendors from liabilty if thier products toast your machine. Why does software get a special exemption? How are we going to get good software if we can't threaten to sue if they screw up?
CNN
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contributed by Space Rogue
Toto/Truthmonger, the nemises of the cypherpunks mailing list has been busted. Identified
with his own PGP key.
Netly NewsPart 1
Netly NewsPart 2
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