Once-controversial computer security plan moves forward

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Government Executive Magazine: “A year ago, government officials faced a firestorm of controversy from civil liberties groups over their plan for the Federal Intrusion Detection Network, or FIDNet. But this year, when Congress approved funding for the computer-security program, hardly a word of protest was heard.”

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Linux

Will Cube copy bring Apple’s wrath?

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

“Move over, iMac imitators: Now a company has cloned the Cube. In the past year, Apple sought and won injunctions against three computer companies that planned to produce “iMac-alike” all-in-one computers.
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From ZDCOUK.

Mass Christmas denial-of-service plan predicted

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

VNUnet reports that Internet security researchers have warned that criminals are planning to launch internet-based denial of service (DoS) attacks on web retailers over the Christmas period.

Israel’s answer to Mitnick

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Israel’s Business Arena has this story: “Ehud Tenenbaum (“the Analyzer”) was only eighteen-and-a-half at the end of 1998 when he achieved his fifteen minutes of fame by breaking into the US Pentagon computer. The Tenenbaum trial has continued ever since and the defense is now entering its plea.”

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Linux

VA Linux vs the big guys

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

ZDCOUK commentary: “Linux system vendor VA Linux is boxed in. On one side of the equation you have broke dot-com startups that can’t buy VA Linux boxes. On the other side, you have enterprise giants IBM, HP, Compaq and Dell getting serious about Linux systems.” (VA Linux owns NewsForge)

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Linux

Firms ‘should allow personal e-mails’

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The BBC reports that firms in the UK are being urged to allow staff “occasional
and reasonable” use of personal e-mails as long
as it does not interfere with their work.

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Open Source

USB 2.0 creeps out, deviceless

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

From the Register: “Remember how, when Intel announced the upstart USB 2.0 spec
eighteen months ago, it promised we’d be buried by compliant
periipherals in time for Xmas? Well it’s late, but assuredly on its
way.”

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Unix

Porn sites fear crackdown

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Wired.com reports that recent FTC action against the adult Web business may be, as one attorney put it, the beginning of a “clean-up-the-Internet sweep.”

Borland preps Delphi Linux for December preview

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

From The Register: “About time too. Borland chose Comdex to sneak out the news that
the Inprise moniker was finally being cast overboard. We imagine
that the relief expressed down at Scotts Valley will have been
enough to generate a small thermal discernable from Las Vegas.”

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Linux

Do we really need new domains?

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

While dot-com businesses continue to drop like flies, Internet regulators agree on a list of new top-level domains. Registrars — who stand to profit handsomely from new dot-suffixes — say worldwide demand necessitates additional domains. From Wired.com.