Sony’s Rootkit a Boon for Scriptkiddies

November 10, 2005

Last week I posted on Sony’s DRM rootkit I mentioned that Steve Gibson had a special edition of his Security Now! podcast to cover the issue. In the podcast Steve explained how easy it would be to conceal malware using the rootkit. Well, it’s happened, and RealTechNews explains how. Favourite line from the article: “Interesting […]

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Rogers to End Access to Usenet

November 10, 2005

Rogers is quietly ending access to the Usenet on December 15. Customers were apparently not directly notified – an alert customer noticed new information posted to a Rogers FAQ. The ostensible reason: Internet technology is constantly changing. Usenet was one of the earliest forms of user discussion on the Internet, but today has largely been […]

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Sony’s Music EULA

November 9, 2005

Cory Doctorow has a funny-if-it-weren’t-true rant about the Sony EULA for their music CD’s. Coming so closely on the heels of the rootkit imbroglio, this is almost piling on. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry.

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Corporate Podcasting Guidelines

November 9, 2005

Steve Rubel posts on IBM’s new initiative concerning employee podcasting. That initiative includes guidelines that address podcast-specific issues, including: Do not podcast IBM Confidential material. Be mindful not only of what you say, but how you say it. Protect your privacy and the privacy of others. Set the bar as high as you can for […]

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New Hughtrain Cards

November 8, 2005

I’m just dazzled by the new cards. Infinite indeed. Thanks, Hugh!

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Vint Cerf on Network Neutrality

November 8, 2005

The Google Blog posts a letter concerning net neutrality sent by Vint Cerf to Joe Barton and John Dingell of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce. Gist: My fear is that, as written, this bill would do great damage to the Internet as we know it. Enshrining a rule that broadly […]

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The Globe Headline Writers on RIM-NTP

November 8, 2005

Simon Avery writes today in the Globe about the judge on the RIM-NTP case. It’s intended to be a bio piece (and is a great profile of Judge Spencer), but the story creates the impression that an injunction could issue tomorrow. Mark Evans emphatically states that that won’t happen. I’ll be shocked if an injunction […]

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More on Google’s Canadian Gmail Trade Mark Application

November 8, 2005

Sander Gelsing has more details on the status of Google’s application for a Canadian trade mark for “Gmail”, and reports that it’s running into a little bit of difficulty.

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More on Metadata

November 8, 2005

Dennis reprises his metadata posts after an NYT interview (congratulations, Mr. Kennedy!) following a recent MS Word metadata embarrassment involving Samuel Alito, the nominee for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s hard to believe that this is still news, but I suppose it is. I’ve taken to reminding clients by rote not to […]

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DRM: An Anthropologist’s Worst Nightmare

November 7, 2005

Thanks to Tad for tipping me to this post about an anthropologist whose efforts to recover audio recordings of interviews, lost in a hard drive crash, are being obstructed by DRM in the Sony ATRAC3 file format in which the original data was encoded.

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Starwood Hotels and Traffic Monitoring

November 6, 2005

Earlier this year I posted about a positive experience with a Starwood’s W Hotel’s privacy policy after a stay in New York. Today, Andy Abramson reports on what he believes is traffic monitoring at a W hotel in Seattle that is throttling back his traffic to 56K when he does something that the hotel firewall […]

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New Theme

November 6, 2005

Pardon the appearance but I’m tinkering with a new theme, and things may look rough while I iron out the details.

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