Kelly McNeill writes, “Microsoft’s making changes to its Passport service following complaints that the Internet sign-on system is a threat to privacy, but critics of both the feature and the forthcoming Windows XP operating system say personal information is still at risk. The Redmond Washington-based software giant, is planning Passport changes that include separation of payment and billing information, less data-gathering on users, and privacy requirements for Passport-affiliated Web sites, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Still, privacy groups that requested a Federal Trade Commission investigation into Passport and Windows XP, which is set for an October launch, say the same threats to privacy remain.” The column is at osOpinion.

Anonymous Reader writes, “This week, the most interesting articles include ‘Your Network’s Secret Life, Part 5,’
‘Triple your remote office protection: The Layered Approach,’ and ‘Linux IPsec
Gateways Using FreeS/Wan.’ Also this week, if you are in the information security
field, Computerworld has released an excellent summary of statistics for year 2000
and projected 2001.
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/forums_artic le-3491.html“

CNet reports that a California judge has ruled that Yahoo does not
need to reveal the identities of some message board posters.

Anonymous Reader writes, “The latest version of the Ogg Vorbis digital music compression format was released today. Called RC2, The most important of the many changes is channel coupling, which means that Vorbis can now encode bitsteams at a much lower bitrate than before.

http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/oggvorbis. html.”

BSDToday has the abstract. “The purpose of this article is outline how to setup DNS and DHCP for internal resolution and network configuration, as might be expected for a
home network or a laboratory that must remain sealed away from other corporate resources. The author will explain and provide examples of
doing so with second level DNS services from dhs.org, which are available to the public at no charge.”

From the New York Times (free registration required): “Call it the digital copyright equivalent of
having your cake but not being able to
eat it. The case of Dmitri Sklyarov, a
Russian computer programmer arrested last
month in Las Vegas, is drawing attention to a
double bind in the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, a 1998 law that some legal experts say
extends rights to consumers even as it
effectively prevents them from exercising
those rights.”

Posted at LWN.net: “Updated Kerberos 5 packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7,
and 7.1. These updates close vulnerabilities due to potential buffer
overflows in the Kerberos-aware telnet server included in the
krb5-workstation package.”

Interactive Week has a story about Kontiki, a startup that hopes to give content owners a way to cheaply deliver audio and video over the Internet.

Slashdot readers discuss an InformationWeek article about a group of ex-Cray Research engineers building Linux architecture for
scaling supercomputers made of low-cost nodes.

Craig writes “As posted on GUI-Lords
Shawn Gordon from theKompany is scheduled to be on the Linux Show this Tuesday night. Not to worry if you miss it they will have it archived in streaming mp3 format. So get XMMS ready to hear what exciting plans Shawn has for the KDE Desktop.”