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The cost of free software
Author: JT Smith
Ian Bell writes "For those of you who have been thinking about switching your software from a Microsoft platform to a Linux...
Apple’s OS X upgrade fiasco
Author: JT Smith
From Wired: "Apple's newest operating system sells for more than $100. The latest upgrade costs under $20. A couple of programmers discovered...
wu-ftp patch available
Author: JT Smith
Linux Weekly News: "The folks at wu-ftpd.org have made a patch available to fix the vulnerability in wu-ftpd 2.6.1. (Thanks to...
Book Review: Beyond Contact: a Guide to SETI
Author: JT Smith
Slashdot reviewsBeyond Contact, by Brian McConnell. "Beyond Contact is the definitive guide to human efforts at contacting alien civilizations. Sure, there have...
Conectiva: wu-ftpd security announcement
Author: JT Smith
Conectiva: "CORE Security Technologies reported a vulnerability in the wu-ftpd ftp server that can be exploited remotely. The problem is in the...
DeCSS ban upheld by court
Author: JT Smith
ZDNet reports that " federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld an order that prohibits publishing or linking to DVD-cracking code--a decision with...
SuSE: ‘wuftpd’ Remote buffer overflow vulnerability
Author: JT Smith
SuSE: "The CORE ST Team had found an exploitable bug in all versions of wuftpd's ftpglob() function... This bug could be exploited...
Caldera: ‘wu-ftpd’ Remote buffer overflow vulnerability
Author: JT Smith
Caldera: "The CoreST team has discovered a vulnerability in wu-ftpd that can be exploited to obtain root access to the FTP server."
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Internet Explorer for Unix!
Author: JT Smith
joabj writes, "Evidently I missed the news release about this, so I wonder if other people did too: I was crawling around...
Web site silenced over DVD secrets
Author: JT Smith
The BBC reports that 2600.com, which has been banned from revealing the secrets of making DVD copies may appeal the U.S.
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