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Wednesday, February 27, 2002

PR: NuSphere Responds to False Claims by the Free SoftwareFoundation [Linux Today]
5:23:59 PM

BellSouth counts on portal play. The last stand-alone "Baby Bell" hopes Net radio, online video and other features will bring customers to its broadband Internet service. [CNET News.com]
5:22:28 PM

Watchdogs rap eBay policy changes. The online auction giant updates its privacy policy and user agreements, making it easier for the company to disclose customers' personal information or to ban people from the site. [CNET News.com]
5:07:30 PM

Data-sharing gap puts agencies at risk. Chief information officers from federal agencies say turf wars and incompatible computer programs are frustrating efforts to bolster homeland security. [CNET News.com]
4:56:16 PM

W3C retreats from royalty policy. The standards body backs away from a proposal that would have allowed companies to demand royalties for technologies used in its standards. [CNET News.com]
4:55:59 PM

Digital Security Fomenting a Feud. A proposed bill with heavyweight support from the entertainment industry garners distrust from technology factions; it would make creating, selling or distributing digital systems without embedded copy protection a crime. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]
4:45:23 PM

From serenade to security hole?. Bug trackers are abuzz over a newly detected security scenario that could transmit a worm along with a song played on a number of popular Internet media players. [CNET News.com]
4:42:43 PM

RIAA Almost Down To Pre-Napster Revenues [Slashdot]
4:42:18 PM

N.Y. Times hack exposes sensitive data. The New York Times Co. confirms the internal network breach at its flagship newspaper. Reports say databases with personal info of staff and of high-profile sources were hit. [CNET News.com]
3:12:44 PM

Building Linux Virtual Private Networks Building Linux VPNs was written by Brian Hatch (of Hacking Linux Exposed fame) and Oleg Kolesnikov, and published by the New Riders, the same guys who do the SANS publications. It's not as thick as you might expect, coming in at 408 pages, but it's remarkably dense in a good way. No wasted space for boring screen shots, instead concentrating on well tailored diagrams when needed, code listings, and command line sessions. [Slashdot]
3:12:17 PM

Music site Morpheus locks out users. The file-swapping service, which many have said would be impossible for courts to shut down, shuts out most of its users, citing "technical problems." [CNET News.com]
3:10:54 PM

Intel plans next Pentium 4 for 2003. The chipmaker is readying a new version of the Pentium 4, called Prescott, and a slate of initiatives to make computers and phones sleeker and smaller. [CNET News.com]
3:10:33 PM

Hack a PC, Get Life in Jail. Look out, online miscreants: A House panel voted unanimously to make some forms of illegal computer intrusions a crime punishable by life in Club Fed. Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate report from Washington. [Wired News]
3:07:38 PM

HTTP a barrier to Web services?. A bedrock of the Internet, HTTP is reaching its limitations and posing a major challenge for Web services, peer-to-peer applications and even security, according to a Microsoft architect. [CNET News.com]
3:07:22 PM