Anonymous Comrade writes: "A NEW WORM that can infect all 32-bit Windows computers
and propagates using multiple methods has spread
across the world Tuesday morning, according to Roger
Thompson, technical director of malicious code at TruSecure.

For Full Story:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/09/18/ 010918hnworm.xml?0918alert"

Autonomedia writes: "An online version of Nick Dyer-Witheford's book Cyber-Marx: Cycles and
Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism (1999) can be found at



http://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/faculty/dyerwitheford/"

I hope people will post some comments on this one. I just saw it in wired. A sculpure of a bull, 7 microns x 10 microns in size. (A micron is 1/1000th of a milimeter). This is about the size of a red blood cell. Is this art?

Jim writes: Felix Stalder of Telepolis has some interesting things to say on the net and property rights
"We are witnessing a backlash against the progressive potential of the
Internet
With a mixture of technological fixes and legal pressures, large
institutions are trying extend copyright protection in order to regain
control over the flows of information. However, these efforts to maintain an
outdated copyright regime are technically inefficient and socially
dysfunctional. In the long run, they are part of a losing battle."



Full text at:
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9409/1.ht ml

Autonomedia writes: "1. Amount Cornell University Library pays for subscription to "Journal of Applied Polymer Science": $12,495.00



2. Amount charged to University Libraries for subscription to "Journal of Economic Studies": $13.40/page



3. Number of people who find the $13.40 per page ironic: 3 out of 4



4. Number of Project Gutenberg Etexts converted by voluteers: 3,551



5. Current "Cost" per Etext based on 3,481 texts: $2.87 per text



6. Number of Scientists worldwide boycotting Corporate Science Journals beginning September 2001: 26,000



7. Number of college and research institutions "Declaring Independence" by publishing themselves: 200



8. Number of days DMCA arrestee Dmitry Sklyarov spent in jail: 13



9. Number of jails he spent them in: 4

grumpy writes: "Robery Cringley has outdone himself with his most recent article on how to set up your own, independent, high-speed, ISP. Or what he calls a socialist internet service provider."

Anonymous Comrade writes: "Microsoft's lobbyists goofed by faking a grass roots campaign
against the government's antitrust case - including sending
letters from deceased people.

Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff received
approximately 300 letters in July asking him to leave
Microsoft alone, including two from deceased people, whose
names had been crossed out by family members."

"The year 1984 gets a red-letter write up in technology lore not for delivering on George Orwell's prophesized Big Brother, but for the arrival of the small, underground 'zine, 2600. Seventeen years since it began, http://www.2600.com/ remains a focal point of a subculture hated and feared by Microsoft, the military and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Although there have been other publications catering to hackers -- most notably the more aggressive and arguably more technical online zine, Phrack -- 2600 stands as the only print publication openly and unapologetically catering to hackers."



http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11251"

Louis Lingg writes: "Niels Ferguson is a professional cryptographer living in the Netherlands. He recently broke Intel's High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) system. HDCP is a cryptographic system that encrypts video on the DVI bus.

He found that "HDCP is fatally flawed...The flaws in HDCP are not hard to find. As I like to say: 'I was just reading it and it broke.'"

Fear of prosecution by the U.S. Justice Department under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is preventing Niels from publishing his findings. In Censorship in action: why I don't publish my HDCP results he explains why, and discusses flaws in the DMCA and its adverse impact on academic freedom and freedom of speech."

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