BBC News reports: “Civil liberties are already being eroded by efforts to tackle computer crime, MPs and cyber-liberty campaigners have warned.

They say laws passed to ease the task facing the new high-tech crime unit are in danger of riding roughshod over online privacy.”

“More than 2 years after the last major release, the Graphics Muse is
pleased to announce a new version of XNotesPlus, a personal information
manager (PIM) for Linux and Unix systems with full featured support for the
Palm Pilot.” Full details at Linux Weekly News.

From ZDNet News: “Shareholders opposed to the proposed marriage of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer should be careful what they wish for: Undoing the $20 billion deal would unleash problems for both companies that could be far more debilitating than those related to the complex combination.”

CNET News.com: “The HyperTransport standard for exchanging data between semiconductors is picking up speed.

More than a dozen companies have licensed the new standard, the HyperTransport Consortium, an the industry group charged with stewarding the technology, announced Monday.”

“In a scathing report released Friday, the U.S. congressional Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovermental Relations flunked 16 federal agencies on their computer security efforts, while giving barely passing grades to a host of other agencies.” Full story at Network World Fusion.

Network World Fusion: “Prompted by concern over the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers this week will host a special meeting on the security and the stability of the Internet’s naming and addressing systems.”

“Ok, this kernel hopefully contains all the high-priority merges with Alan,
which means that as far as that is concerned, I’m done with 2.4.x and
ready to pass it on to Marcelo.” –Linus

Subject:
Linux 2.4.15-pre4 – merge with Alan
Date:
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:01:56 -0800 (PST)
From:
Linus Torvalds
To:
Kernel Mailing List r>

Ok, this kernel hopefully contains all the high-priority merges with Alan,
which means that as far as that is concerned, I’m done with 2.4.x and
ready to pass it on to Marcelo.

Which means that I’d also like people to double-check that there are no
embarrassing missing pieces due to the merge (or other patches).

Known issue: Al Viro fixed the nasty overflow with /proc/cpuinfo and
multiple CPU’s, but only for x86. So other architectures need to convert
from the old “get_cpuinfo()” to the seq-file-based “show_cpuinfo()”. The
conversion should be pretty mindless and straightforward.. (ie use
“seq_printf()” instead of “sprintf()” etc – see arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
for the example code).

Changelog appended,

Linus

—–
pre4:
– Mikael Pettersson: make proc_misc happy without modules
– Arjan van de Ven: clean up acpitable implementation
(“micro-acpi”)
– Anton Altaparmakov: LDM partition code update
– Alan Cox: final (yeah, sure) small missing pieces
– Andrey Savochkin/Andrew Morton: eepro100 config space save/restore over suspend
– Arjan van de Ven: remove power from pcmcia socket on card remove
– Greg KH: USB updates
– Neil Brown: multipath updates
– Martin Dalecki: fix up some “asmlinkage” routine markings

From LinuxSecurity.com: “Joao Pedro reports that “It’s possible to hijack an imp/horde session using a cross-site script attack, quite similar to the one explored by Marc Slemko in his “Microsoft Passport to Trouble” paper.””

Reported at Wired.com: “Bill Gates admitted it: PCs don’t work very well.

And he promised to fix things, although it will take him a decade.”

“A new snapshot of the x86-64 linux kernel tree has been released. It is
based now on the 2.4.14 kernel.”Subject:
[announcement] x86-64-2.4.14-1 linux kernel released
Date:
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:07:35 +0100
From:
Andi Kleen
To:
discuss@x86-64.org, announce@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

A new snapshot of the x86-64 linux kernel tree has been released. It is
based now on the 2.4.14 kernel.

Changes to previous snapshot:
– Merged to 2.4.14
– Some bug fixes

For information on how to compile and use it see http://www.x86-64.org

Full tar:
ftp://ftp.x86-64.org/pub/linux-x86_64/linux-x86_64-2.4.14-1.tar.bz2
MD5: b249c589fe41995dd810945104a43425

Patch against Linux 2.4.14:
ftp://ftp.x86-64.org/pub/linux-x86_64/x86_64-2.4.14-1.bz2
MD5: 0e97844dd45107ca937f5d9baf1ee37c

Enjoy,

-Andi