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News for 123198
Happy New Year!
contributed by Space Rogue
Section 505 of the original Communications Decency Act has been ruled
unconstitutional by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Playboy
Enterprises Inc. brought the suit against the CDA two and half years ago.
Section 505 had called for adult-only cable channels to scramble their
signals in such a way so as to prevent even fleeting images of sex acts
from 'bleeding through' . The judges noted that the Justice Department
had presented "no clinical evidence linking child viewing of pornography
to psychological harms."
CNN
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Gov says OK to export crypto
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contributed by anonymous
The Clinton administration has increased the limit on exportable
encryption from 40bit DES to 56bit DES. The new policy also has special
provisions to export even stronger encryption technology within certain
industries. Last week, two industry groups - the Internet Architecture
Board and the Internet Engineering Steering Group - estimated that after
an initial purchase of equipment, hackers could break a 64-bit encrypted
message in less than a day for roughly $2,500 per message.
Nando
Times
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found on slashdot
Christmas Island is giving away free domains with the top level of .cx.
No telling how long it will be before they start charging so you better
get yours while you can. The good ones are disappearing fast. For the
geographically challenged Christmas Island is located a coupla thousand
miles North West of Perth Australia.
Christmas Island
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contributed by Space Rogue
Can something be cool and evil at the same time? (It's a slow news day,
bear with me) Two electrical Engineers have developed a product they call
AutoWatch. It plugs into the on board computer of any car manufactured
after 1995 and logs the vehicle speed, engine speed, throttle position and
load of the vehicle. It is being sold for $295 retail and is being market
as a way for parents to keep tabs on their kids and employers to keep
track of their employees. Regardless of its possibly evil implementations
it is a cool hack.
Nando
Times
Ease Simulation Inc.
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Sertanet cracked?
We recieved a very strange email late today that was written in very
broken english and difficult to read. It would appear from the claims of
this letter that Setarnet, an ISP in Aruba, has been cracked and that a
password list of aprox 1600 users is floating around the internet. This
information was supposedly reported to the local newspapers who decided
"to hush it up". It is rumoured that the crack was done by members of a
local rock band named 'Chronic' I'm not really sure what to make of this.
(like I said it is a slow news day)
Setarnet
Archive of supposed
cracked Setarnet page
milw0rm is back?
keystr0ke has sent us mail on Wednesday December 30th at 2:12pm saying
that he has decided to restart the famed milw0rm group. milw0rm gained
notoriety last summer after taking credit for the Pentagon cracks. They
have two members now and may be responsible for cracking the following
sites over the last few days.
www.musicgods.com
www.wubco.net
www.confine.com
www.hubco.net
The HackTechCrew
A group calling itself "The HackTech Crew" has defaced a web page and put
up comments chiding milw0rm telling them to "go back to sleep".
http://www.mkt.amacc.edu.ph/
AntiOnline cracked?
AntiOnline has been down for 8
days.
Eight days after AntiOnline went down due to a hard drive crash, and five
days after they claimed they would be back up, AntiOnline is still
off line. We have received several emails claiming that HcV, milw0rm
and I0StreAm have cracked the site and are keeping it down. Unfortunately
no one has yet provided proof.
HNN Archive for December 28, 1998 -
HNN response to AntiOnlines comments.
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