Fw: ACM TechNews - Friday, May 31, 2002

> "Linux Vendors Stand Behind UnitedLinux"
> Linux vendors Caldera, SuSE, Conectiva, and Turbolinux on
> Thursday announced plans to merge their Linux versions into a
> single Linux distribution called UnitedLinux in order to fight
> fragmentation and to create a stronger product to compete with ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0531f.html#item1
> 
> "FBI Analysis: We Don't Compute"
> FBI director Robert Mueller called for an extensive
> reorganization of the bureau, a key point of which will be the
> updating of its technological infrastructure.  He said such an
> effort would involve not only additional hardware, but all bureau. ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0531f.html#item2
> 
> "Linux Grows on Government Systems"
> More and more government organizations are taking on Linux as a
> cost-effective and secure operating system that is improving all
> the time and has bigger backing from the biggest IT vendors.
> IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Red Hat all are reporting new sales of ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0531f.html#item7
> 
> "Enforcing Laws in a Borderless Web"
> The rapid expansion of the Internet has left international legal
> affairs in its wake, and disagreements over how to apply local
> laws to the World Wide Web are increasing despite treaties such
> as the World Intellectual Property Organization, which went into ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0531f.html#item8
> 
> "Anti-Snooping Operating System Close to Launch"
> Privacy advocates in Britain are worried about an upcoming third
> part of that country's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act,
> which will allow police to demand access to electronic
> information, including encryption keys, from criminal suspects. ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0531f.html#item10
>
> "Linux Development Kernel Gets Bluetooth"
> Version 2.5.14 of the Linux development kernel now includes a
> protocol stack for Bluetooth support, a sign that future Linux
> distributions will include native Bluetooth support.  PC software
> vendors Apple Computer and Microsoft also are developing ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0531f.html#item13
> 
> "Critics Say ICANN Should Compete for Net Governance Duties"
> Competition should be introduced to bid against ICANN for the
> privilege of managing the Internet's global addressing system,
> says a group of public interest groups that includes the ACLU,
> the Consumer Federation of America, the Electronic Privacy ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0531f.html#item14


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