From ZDNet: “This is an awful lot of work! It is an awful lot of work. And there?s a lot of stuff we haven’t talked about! To put all the extra work in perspective, though, think about the labor required to recover from a major destructive break-in. From that perspective, the effort involved in securing your systems and networks begins to look like it might be worth it.”

CNET News.com reports: “The law appears to have caught up with “Pimpshiz,” the hacker allegedly responsible for defacing some 200 Web sites last year with
pro-Napster graffiti. On Friday, police investigating the Web site break-ins confirmed they had searched the Pleasant Hill, Calif., home of a 17-year-old high school
student and confiscated computer equipment last month.”

The Duke of URL says: “With Linux growing in popularity, everyone wants to try it on. That includes those Windows users who don’t really know if they’re ready for the dual-boot setup or
users who aren’t quite sure yet if Linux is for them. Good news — there may be a product for those users. That product is WinLinux 2000.”

From NewsAlert: “Citing “current market conditions,” Linux-focused software company Lineo Inc. filed Friday afternoon with the
Securities and Exchange Commission to withdraw its proposed initial public offering. The company, which first filed last May to go public, had registered $60 million of stock for the deal.”

At LWN.net: “There is now a tool for secure updating of software available for
Trustix Secure Linux 1.2: SWUP. SWUP is short for SoftWare UPdater, and is based on ideas from Debian
apt and rpmfind.”

From LWN.net: “WireX discovered a potential temporary file condition in the gpm
program. This update corrects the problem.”

From LWN.net: “WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the inn
program. This condition is due partly to the way inn is compiled and
configured on some Linux distributions, including Linux-Mandrake, and
partly due to the lack of information in the inn package detailing
potential security problems if you do not tell inn to use a private
temporary directory.”

Lisa Mann writes “We’re looking for exceptional speakers for conference
presentations and tutorial programs at the O’Reilly Open
Source Software Convention, July 23-27, 2001, in San Diego,
California. Submit your proposal now.
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2001/call.html“

From IDG: “Telecommunications company Cable & Wireless PLC (C&W) has teamed up with
French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel SA to build a high capacity IP
(Internet Protocol) trans-Atlantic cable, the companies announced on Friday.”

CNN reports that Hewlett-Packard co-founder William R. Hewlett died Friday morning, of natural causes, in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 87.