Fw: ACM TechNews - Friday, December 14, 2001

> "In Digital Copyright Case, Programmer Can Go Home"
> The federal government has made a deal with Russian programmer
> Dmitri Sklyarov's lawyers in which he will not be prosecuted, on
> the condition that he testifies against his employer, ElcomSoft.
> Sklyarov was charged with violating the 1998 Digital Millennium ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1214f.html#item1
> 
> "Silicon Valley Given Call to Arms"
> Silicon Valley firms are being urged by government officials,
> security experts, and others to develop new weapons and
> protective measures against terrorism.  A major cyber terrorist
> attack on the U.S. infrastructure has yet to occur, but special ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1214f.html#item2
> 
> "Lawmaker: Net Security Bill Will Pass This Year"
> House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.) is
> confident that his Cyber Security Research and Development Act
> will be approved by Congress before 2002.  Speaking at an
> Information Technology Association of America conference, ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1214f.html#item3
> 
> "Google's Gaggle of Discussions"
> Internet historians can now peruse through an archive of 700
> million Usenet postings made available by the Google search Web
> site.  Google acquired the archive from dot-com casualty
> DejaNews, but angered a lot of people by shutting it out from ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1214f.html#item5
> 
> "Virus Experts Connect to Combat Blended Threats"
> Antivirus and computer security companies are cooperating to
> thwart new viruses that also carry hacker code.  Whereas viruses
> used to be mostly just nuisances that propagated on the Internet,
> many of the most recent and publicized ones allow hackers to take ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1214f.html#item6
> 
> "Is Linux a Black Art?"
> Linux advocates should avoid complicating open-source use in
> order to become competitive with Microsoft in the mass market.
> Although there are ways around commonly lamented problems, expert
> open-source programmers often fail to put together simpler ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1214f.html#item11
> 
> "At the Core of Apple's OS X"
> Jordan Hubbard, a creator of the open-source FreeBSD system, now
> works on Apple's new OS X, which the company put together in an
> open-source fashion.  Although OS X's user interface and other
> code is still closed, the majority of OS X is open to developers. ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1214f.html#item12
> 
> "Hackers, Programmers "Improve" Xbox"
> Hackers have already begun exploring the possibilities of using
> Microsoft's Xbox gaming console for more than it was intended to
> do.  Given the amount of attention the Xbox has garnered, the
> limited number of compromises to the system is testimony to the ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1214f.html#item13
> 
> "NIPC Urges Heightened Attention to Domain Name Servers"
> The National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) warns that
> many companies do not adequately ensure their domain name servers
> (DNS) against failure.  DNS systems translate Internet Protocol
> addresses both to and from the text addresses typed into browser ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1214f.html#item16


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