contributed by Space Rogue
The Kevin Mitnick defense team is in desperate need of an expert witness. This witness could be you! The Court has granted the defense extremely limited access to the megabytes of data against Kevin Mitnick. The defense team needs an expert witness to e nsure that no actions are taken by the government that would jeopardize the confidentiality of Kevin's review of the evidence while using the computer.

Witness Needed

Additionally due to the governments delays in providing key evidence to the defense the Kevin Mitnick Defense team has had to ask for a continuance further delaying the trial that was originally scheduled for January 19th.

ZD Net

Kevin Mitnick has been in jail for almost 4 years without a constitutionally required bail hearing. Regardless of his guilt or innocence this is wrong.

contributed by Space Rogue
We reported on this weeks ago, but it is still scary as hell. The British have developed a new identification system that will match up a suspects face to a picture stored in a database. This technique is supposed to work from poor quality closed circuit television cameras similar to to those used for security surveillance. It is to be used primarily in Airports and other high security areas. How long before they put cameras on the streets?

Nando Times

contributed by Ken Williams
Locked out of your workstation? Don't want to leave messy log files around? Have console access but not the password? Try Trinux. A slim Linux distribution that boots in two to three floppies and contains all the networking tools you will need. It loads i nto RAM so it completly bypasses any existing OS on your x86 box

Trinux

contributed by Space Rogue
New Zealand Telecom's new program to beat hackers may fail against fraudulent Internet access. There is more to fraudulent access than Back Orifice.

The New Zealand Press

contributed by Various
There where several cracked web pages over the last few days.
loser wrote us to tell us about the IHU web site.
Aragorn and Isildur wrote to tell us the HcV has cracked another h/p/a/v web site, Hacked-Warez. I guess they can't find any better targets.
And Marcelo Adaes wrote to tell us of a hack in Brazil of the Salvador City Hall in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.