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Monday, July 07, 2003

Defacement Contest Ends With a Twist. Rather than spending Sunday defacing Web pages—which, let's admit it, has become a bit passé—some crackers decided instead to disrupt a planned defacement contest by knocking offline the Web site where competitors were supposed to record their crimes. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
3:55:06 PM

Law school receives ABA award. Campbell University's Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law was recently named a recipient of the American Bar Association's E. Smythe Gambrell Award for professionalism development... In other law school news, Professor Heather Gerken of the Harvard Law... [JURIST's Paper Chase]
3:51:18 PM

InformationWeek > Unix > SCO Group Seeks Multiparty Solution > July 3, 2003 - As lawyers prepare to take the SCO Group's intellectual-property case against IBM to court, the company continues to talk with other technology vendors about the possibility of signing new licenses for the rights to use its Unix source code. Yet, even if others sign SCO Group licenses, and even if the IBM dispute is resolved, that won't entirely assuage SCO Group. The company is seeking a coordinated agreement involving multiple companies to remedy what it considers unauthorized use of its software.
10:25:20 AM

Linux lab nabs another key developer. Andrew Morton, the man chosen by Linus Torvalds in January to maintain the upcoming Linux 2.6 kernel, has been hired by Open Source Development Labs Inc. [Computerworld News]
6:31:35 AM

Web vandalism contest results unclear. Unknown attackers down the largest recorder of Web site defacements on the same day that vandals had been thought to be planning an online graffiti contest. [CNET News.com]

Really? The article notes that a typical Sunday sees about 2000 sites defaced world-wide, but the 6th saw only a few hundred reports between intermittent outages of the site taking reports.

6:25:30 AM