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“piracy fight gets serious” – bbc says hacking may be made legal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2069000/2069747.stm Record makers could win the right to carry out hack attacks on music sharing services if a US proposal becomes law. Californian congressman Howard Berman has drawn up a bill that would legalise the disruption of peer-to-peer networks by companies who are trying to stop people pirating copyrighted materials. If his idea becomes law,
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comics for spooks
this appeals to me: http://www.newshounds.com/comics/nh20020614.gif (see http://www.newshounds.com/d/20020610.html and sequence)
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apple dumps aussie pr after news coup
Weird. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/25897.html Over the years, Apple has become accustomed to bad news. Now it gets the flutters when there’s good news. And so, the company has sacked its PR manager in Australia after she mistakenly issued a good news press release. The trouble started when Myrna van Pelt, a four-year Apple veteran in the Australian
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storage area network threat zones
What are the storage security threats and issues? What are the current and emerging network storage security countermeasures? What security considerations address which storage applications? What steps can organizations take to protect their networked storage infrastructures investments? And most importantly, how can security be a network storage enabler? http://www.wwpi.com/lead_stories/Glass_house.html
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todays bbc news warning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2068000/2068276.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_2068000/2068276.stm “Tech managers targeted by cyber criminals” The head of the UK’s cyber police unit has warned that tech managers could become victims of kidnappers and organised crime. Comment from a friend of mine: “as if users weren’t bad enough.”
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this is a deeply subversive document which should be banned in case a terrorist uses it…
http://www.radio.gov.uk/publication/ra_info/ra365.htm
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“a severe danger to the public and to national security”
bwahahahahahaha… no doubt someone will discover “Crack” and try doing the same to me in the near future, again… http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_2064000/2064388.stm
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how bill invented software, saved the world from ibm, found a cure for cancer and still finds time for singing lessons
urgh. http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=208505
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more on sigma
At the end of the first age, the Dark Lord TQM was slain by the united peoples of Corporate Earth but not all its works were found and destroyed. Some quality managers fled to the upper floors, and lived undiscovered, spreading their venom into the minds of management. A new dark lord, a follower of
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report: microsoft plans security ship for next windows
REPORT: MICROSOFT PLANS SECURITY SHIP FOR NEXT WINDOWS Posted June 24, 2002 05:55 Pacific Time MICROSOFT WANTS TO change the fundamental architecture of the PC, adding security hardware prior to the release of the next generation of its Windows operating system around 2004, according to a media report. The Redmond, Wash.-based company wants future PCs
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a belgian colleague, regarding sunsigma
if you’ve ever come accross Total Quality Management and disliked it, don’t worry as this program has a completely and totally different name. rotfl.
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how i spent my weekend
Errrrrrrrrrrr I feel pooped. I have no reason to feel pooped. saturday, got up, went shopping, stopped into the office to send a document to Whit regarding the ES Technology Council security working group. burned some redhat 7.3 CD-r and went home. my mate steve turned up in the evening, diagnosed a hardware problem in