contributed by Macki
Prison authorities have set January 21, 2000 as the day Kevin Mitnick will finnally be released from prison. At that time it will be almost five years that Kevin has spent behind bars.

2600.com

contributed by Code Kid
Students at Ruston High School in Louisiana are required to wear ID cards around their necks as part of the added security measures at the school. The ID cards contain the pictures of the student, a Pepsi logo, and the students social security number in bar code form. The bar codes are in plain sight and for all to see in clear violation of Federal Law. The school claimed that the bar codes had been encrypted. Students have since broken that trivial encryption.

World Net Daily
How to read the Codes.

Late Update
The plot thickens. Evidently the school already has a different number assigned to all students but for some reason they chose to use the Social Security Number for identification. This totally violates federal law.

World Net Daily - Second Article

Social Security Act §205 [42 U.S.C. 405(c)(2)(C)(i)-(viii)]

contributed by Found on Slashdot
Possession, distribution, and writing of viruses will soon be illegal in Finland. The bill carries a sentence of up to two years in prison for violators. The ambiguous wording of the bill, "Causing danger to data processing systems", could be interpreted as a lot of things especially since the only limitation needing to be proven is intent and not actual damages.

Helsingin Sanomat

contributed by Weld Pond
The Federal Communications Commission has released its final ruling on the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). This Act establishes the rules telecommunications carriers must comply with which allow law enforcement agencies the ability to conduct electronic surveillance on their networks.

Federal Register

contributed by no0ne
Everyone's been talking and dealing with the Y2K problem. On the sidelines awaits a new, probably easier to handle, computer date problem. The Year 2038 Bug can cause problems for computer applications written in C Language when the date hits January 18-19, 2038. This is in relation to "time.h", C's standard time library routine, which uses a 4-byte format to store time values and other functions to manipulate them.

Times Computing

contributed by Space Rogue
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