CNET News.com (via MSNC reports: “A poll in the United States has found widespread support for a ban on “uncrackable” encryption products, following proposals in Congress to tighten restrictions on software that scrambles electronic data. The survey found that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption laws would be “somewhat” or “very” helpful in preventing a repeat of last week’s terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.”

Reported at PC World: “In an effort to bring more features to cell phones, Sprint is calling on Java. The company will add support for the popular programming language in all of its next-generation cellular phones due out in mid-2002, Sprint announced Tuesday.

The move comes after Sprint last week launched a Java developers program in conjunction with Sun Microsystems, which aims to build support around a compact version of the language called J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition).

Sprint now joins fellow U.S. carrier Nextel Communications, which made a similar announcement earlier this year, as a Java proponent. Both companies are hoping Java will allow them to offer users more complex media functions and software choices on cellular phones.”

From BSD Today: “We started to organize our things last summer, when Julian Elischer (who spent some months here several times) gave us a lesson on FreeBSD kernel debugging. Our BSD.hu portal started that time. The association was founded in November. Since then, the membership of the local freebsd mailing list has been doubled (~200-250), linux portals have started to carry BSD-specific news and articles, hundreds of BSD CDs have been burnt. Several Hungarian guys appeared in the GNATS database (filling send-pr) or in the ports tree (submitting new ports). Not a big thing in itself, but we’re happy to see them.”

IDG reports: “Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday took the wraps off a new 16-way, midrange server built around the company’s own flavor of the Unix operating system.

The HP Server rp8400 can use up to 16 of the company’s PA-RISC processors, making it a significantly more powerful server than the company’s current eight-way rp7400 — formerly called the N-class server. HP will make its 650MHz and 750MHz PA-RISC 8700 chips available on the new server. The rp8400 will run version 11i of the company’s HP-UX operating system.”

Posted at Help Net Security: “We’ve all just been hit by a VERY aggressive worm/virus.

Quick analysis indicates that it propagates itself in a number of different ways:

Through use of IIS UNICODE direcory traversal coupled with the recent IIS .dll privilege escalation attack. It uses SMB/CIFS and TFTP to get the worm payload.

Through MAPI mails (probably to all of addressbook).”

Posted at Help Net Security: “The Oracle 9i Application Server uses the Apache web server for HTTP service. However, if a request is made for a non-existent .jsp file, the complete path is shown.”

Check out the latest offering from American Megatrends: StorTrends NAS software, a new, custom version of FreeBSD designed to be used with American Megatrends’ StorTrends and ServTrends data storage products. Read the complete press release posted at Yahoo.

A new essay from Eben Moglen: “Microsoft’s anti-GPL offensive this summer has sparked renewed speculation about whether the GPL is “enforceable.” This particular example of “FUD” (fear, uncertainty and doubt) is always a little amusing to me. I’m the only lawyer on earth who can say this, I suppose, but it makes me wonder what everyone’s wondering about: Enforcing the GPL is something that I do all the time.” Posted at the GNU Project/Free Software Foundation home page.

Slashdotter Stephanie Black reviewsManaging Open Source Projects a new John Willey & Sons title on putting the principles and advantes of Open Source programming to work in a business environment. Bottom line from Black: “…before you grumble about paying nearly 30 bucks for something that’s less than 200 pages, you might want to look at the concept of quality. It’s worth every blessed dime, plus taxes (if applicable).”

Brazilian IT site UnderLinux interviews Bugtraq moderator Elias Levy. It’s a short interview with questions (naturally) covering computer security and related topics.