CNET News.com: “Frustrated residents in a pocket of Silicon Valley are experiencing a powerful sign that high-speed wireless Internet service could have trouble going mainstream: It isn’t working very well.”

Business 2.0 interviews Eric S. Raymond: “The open source community has an eager spokesperson in Eric Raymond, one of the initiative’s co-founders. A staunch advocate of libertarianism, Raymond’s collection of writings includes: ‘The Open Source Manifesto,’ ‘The Cathedral and the Bazaar;’ a FAQ entitled, ‘How to Become a Hacker;’ and the essay; ‘Why I Am an Anarchist.'”

The American Civil Liberties Union plans to run ads in major US daily newspapers, to raise the awareness of the government’s electronic surveillance. The organization contends that spy efforts like Carnivore and Echelon violate the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees protection against unreasonable search and seizure. PC World has the full story.

Two new Red Hat security advisories. New Netscape packages are available to fix a possible problem with JavaScript that could allow a remote exploit (details); Updated pine packages fix file creation issues in pine and the pico text editor. These issues could cause files owned by any user to be overwritten (details).

Help Net Security: “There is a critical bug in cfingerd daemon

“A number of security problems existed in previous versions of OpenSSH which would allow an attacker obtain sensitive information by passively monitoring the encrypted SSH (Secure Shell) sessions.” Details at Help Net Security.

Buy the 1.7-gigahertz Pentium IV processor on its April 23 ship date, and you’ll pay $700. Wait until April 29, and you’ll probably pay $350. Other Intel chip prices will drop as much as 60% on that date, too. The Wall Street Journal (via ZDNet) has the story.

“Over the next few weeks, Yahoo will pull all pornography-related products from the shopping, auction and classified areas of its site. In addition, the company will stop selling ad banner space to sellers of pornography. The moves comes just two days after the company confirmed that it was selling adult entertainment products, such as movies on DVD and video.” Full story at ZDNet.

From Help Net Security: “There exists a possibility for an attacker to embed special modelines into a text file which when opened with vim could compromise the account of the user.”

ZDNET.co.uk: “Intel is to cut the prices of its chips this week to pave the way for the
launch of its 1.7GHz Pentium 4 processor on 23 April, but experts
warn that the flagship Pentium 4 chips will not offer significant
performance benefits for some time.”