Kelly McNeill writes “I’m an individual who cherishes his privacy on both the Internet and in the real world. While I may sometimes go a bit overboard about security in the real world, I don’t go to any privacy extreme when on the Internet. I don’t encrypt my e-mail. I don’t worry about malicious hackers taking my credit card information. And I certainly don’t get worked up about Web sites that use cookies to track my reading habits.”

Kelly McNeill writes “I’m an individual who cherishes his privacy on both the Internet and in the real world. While I may sometimes go a bit overboard about security in the real world, I don’t go to any privacy extreme when on the Internet. I don’t encrypt my e-mail. I don’t worry about malicious hackers taking my credit card information. And I certainly don’t get worked up about Web sites that use cookies to track my reading habits.”

ZDNet reports “People looking to off-load their old Microsoft software to make way for Windows XP have to be careful about selling it online. For more than a year, Microsoft employees have kept tabs on eBay and other online auctions for software sales that the company believes violate its copyright or trademark rights. When they surface, Microsoft and the auction house work together to shut them down.”

Kelly McNeill writes “In an economic environment that has high-tech companies battling for every scrap of revenue they can capture, Sun Microsystems has launched fierce frontal attacks on its largest competitors, Microsoft and IBM, in an effort to win market share and take advantage of its rivals’ perceived vulnerabilities. On Monday, Sun announced that it would cut the price of its Web software by 37 percent in a move widely seen as an effort to undercut the price of Microsoft’s competing software, which has suffered a series of highly publicized and embarrassing security breaches.”

ZDNet reports that Mandrake has released its third beta version of its Itanium supporting Linux distribution.

LinuxSecurity Contributors writes “This week, perhaps the most interesting articles include “Analyzing your internet applications
log files,” “BSD security fundamentals,” and “A Beginner’s Introduction to Network Security.”
Also this week, SANS released an updated security list. The ‘top 10’ security list has now
become ‘top 20.’
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/forums_artic le-3804.html”

Reuters reports that Cambridge Silicon Radio, the British-based Bluetooth chipmaker, says it will
need more cash by the end of next year.

Debian.org has annoucnements about three conferences in Germany this week, all involving the Debian Project.

Reuters reports that several recording companies will head to federal court in San Francisco Wednesday to
request a summary judgment against Napster.

Universal Networks unveiled Open for Business, a new resource for IT
workers today. Open for Business aims to provide IT workers with information to assist in
migrating to open source tools such as Linux and Apache. Some of the resources available at launch
included articles and discussion forums.
According to Universal Networks CEO Timothy R. Butler, Open for Business was launched because many
businesses are “interested in moving to Linux and open source technologies, but they need assitance.” Butler continued “They need a resource of how-to’s, commentary, reviews, and news to assist them in transitioning from
proprietary operating systems to Linux.”

You can visit Open for Business by going to http://open.uninetsolutions.com.

Universal Networks operates a varied network of sites including Uninet Perl Company which
offers open source scripts and consulting, the FaithTree.com customizable Christian portal,
and Open for Business, an open source migration information community. You can reach Uninet
at http://www.uninetsolutions.com or contact@uninetsolutions.com.

CONTACT:
Timothy R. Butler
tbutler@uninetsolutions.com