Why?
Because the United States currently has, as Jack Womack so succinctly puts it, a president who makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln.
And because, as the Spanish philosopher Unamuno said,
At times, to be silent is to lie.
The UK government has broken its silence on the Indymedia server raid and is claiming that there no UK law enforcement agencies were involved
. It seems that servers nobody seized the servers
According to research published by security firm CipherTrust, all phishing attacks launched across the Internet come from one of just five networks of zombie PCs
At least 300 software development jobs at IT services giant EDS Australia are expected to be lost after customer Telstra agreed to a proposal to have the work performed overseas
Australian journalist kidnapped by Iraqi militants, John Martinkus, never thought that the search engine Google would one day save his life. Martinkus was freed by his captors on Sunday after they Googled his name on the Internet to check if he was telling the truth about his affiliation with public broadcaster SBS. His captors investigated his background on the internet to make sure he was not a contractor for the US or a CIA agent
An Oregon college student’s flat-screen Toshiba TV which was releasing the 121.5 MHz international distress signal. He was unaware of the issue until local police, search and rescue and civil air patrol members showed up at his apartment’s door. Apparently the signal was strong enough to be picked up by satellite and then routed to the Air Force Rescue Centre in Virginia. Quite impressive — luckily Toshiba is offering him a free replacement
According to an advisory by security web site Secunia, Norton AntiVirus contains a security flaw that could allow a malicious user to disable the software’s auto-protect feature
The British Library is creating an archive to store the e-mails of the nation’s top authors and scientists, as the written word is replaced by electronic messages. A spokeswoman says it welcomes e-mails from prominent people in all walks of life
Google’s free e-mail service, Gmail, has begun using antispam technology supported heavily by archrival Yahoo. Messages from Gmail sent Monday indicated that they were encoded with DomainKeys technology, as evidenced by logs in the message headers. When an e-mail header from a Gmail message was opened, a code reading DomainKey-Signature
appeared. DomainKeys is a technology backed by Yahoo that tries to cross-check e-mail messages to verify their origination. The idea is to thwart e-mail spoofers
, which are spam messages that pretend to be from legitimate Internet addresses
Google watchers abuzz about the new desktop tool are already betting on its next product: instant chat. Code uncovered in the Google Desktop Search tool suggests that the company may have broader plans to integrate IM into its growing list of products
The British High Court has ordered ISPs to hand over the names and addresses of 28 alleged music pirates to Britain’s trade body for the recording industry
Former TIA personnel are moving their data mining [BugMeNot] operations offshore, to the Bahamas, to escape US privacy rules and make a buck. I’m waiting for somebody to publish the private data (financial, medical, legal) of federal officials and their families on an open internet web server out of the Bahamas. Is this what it will take for the US to enact stringent privacy rules? — via Slashdot
Google Desktop is a new desktop program that allows users to search the web as well as their own computer files in a move analysts said could be a challenge to Microsoft
Plans to fully privatise Telstra could be jeopardised by a Coalition revolt after the Queensland National Party president declared that MPs would not rubber-stamp the sale
Sony’s latest DVD Burner can be connected directly to your VCR or Camcorder to record or back up your home movies, TV shows, whatever. It can also be hooked up to a PC via a USB 2.0 connection. The device effectively removes the PC from the equation, giving users an easier way to make their own DVDs. No word yet if it will record straight from your television, or from your DVD Player to circumvent copy-protection
The FBI has issued an order to hosting provider Rackspace in the US, ordering it to turn over two of the servers [BugMeNot] hosting the Independent Media Centre’s web sites in the UK. Rackspace complied with the FBI order, without first notifying Indymedia, and turned over Indymedia’s server in the UK. This affects over 20 Indymedia sites worldwide. The servers have since been returned, but are being treated as compromised
Business e-mail security provider, MessageLabs, has issued a warning to Internet users not click on the opt-out
link on spam e-mails, as the company said it had discovered yesterday a number of messages using this function to open a spam distribution point on the recipient’s computer
The House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at making spyware illegal, and the bill could be made law as soon as this week
Hitachi and Toshiba unveiled new fuel cell prototypes for a range of applications that could be commercialised as early as next year. The prototypes on display at Ceatec Japan 2004 show that fuel cells could become a widely adopted supplementary power source to conventional lithium ion batteries, and could start replacing them in some applications after 2007
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