Cell Phone Discussion (Continued) FCC Rules that Digital Tuners must be included by 2007
Designed to speed adoption of HDTV Conventional, Digital, HDTV Technologies
Record Labels Sue ISPs over site
China-based Listen4ever.com is dispensing mp3s Vivendi, Sony, RCA, Warner participated in the suit Plaintiffs included AT&T, Cable and Wireless, Sprint, UUNet and others
Catching crooks with e-mail evidence is mounting
Noted examples
Arthur Anderson John Walker Lindh, Taliban fighter Daniel Pearl arrest
Best way is for police to make an image of the harddrive for analysis
Even turning on the computer corrupts the information legally Difficult to totally remove evidence from hard drive Deleting, reformatting, re-partitioning all leave data in place Special programs rewrite and erase multiple times to get rid of data
Best way is to burn the hard drive, according to some experts.
Military Computers cracked by security firm
Unclassified computers connected to Internet
Simple or no passwords File sharing with no password Private email, correspondence, quasi-classified data found
Search began at US Army?s Fort Hood From there they accessed internal networks of other bases No secure network cracked DoD will now move security surveillance to the desktop level
Wi-Fi Honey Pot set up in Washington DC
SAIC, a government contractor, launched the first organized wireless honeypot Looking first at 802.11b, set up a hot spot in a well-traveled area No serious hacking discovered so far
Registrars Rally behind ICANN
ICANN has been heavily criticized in recent months Board of Director selection is the main bone of contention Name space decisions hotly contested Now 44 of the ICANNs registrars have issued a letter of support for the organization
LAN Parties Grow in Popularity
Gamers like to battle together in the same room Computer connected by high speed LANs QuakeCon is a popular program by ID software for the LAN party Attended a LAN party in Carnac France a few weeks ago
Dell now sells computers without OS
Takes advantage of new MS licensing agreement Includes a copy of FreeDOS, uninstalled, to meet the letter of the agreement Popular with corporate users who must erase and reinstalled licensed software
Russians Accuse FBI of Hacking
Russia?s Federal Security Service filed charges against FBI agent Michael Schuler Lured two Russian hackers to US in November 2000 and accessed their computers without authorization. The pair had infiltrating PayPal and other pay schemes The Scam
The pair were offered job with the fictitious firm Invita if they could prove their skills They logged onto their computers in Russia to begin the demo. The FBI logged all keystrokes
US judge rules that Russian law does not apply to US
LinuxWorld Held this week
LinuxWorld Website IBM, Sun, HP, Dell all claiming to be first with Linux Linux is now viewed as a production server Redhat marches to support open source Unveiled legislation (Digital Software Security Act–DSSA) that requires CA to only use open source software Bumper stickers (Convicts should make license plates, not computer software) Bumper sticker (Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?)
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