Microsoft is finally getting into trouble with its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Tool. I covered the possible privacy violations in a previous blog posting. Now, Microsoft is facing a class action suit filled in the US District Court in Seattle for alleged privacy violations.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Monday, concerns […]
I have a copy of Solaris 10 lying on my desk since August of 2005. I was not really able to get around to checking it out until lately. However, while searching for new things to run in my VMWare system I bumped into Belenix.
BeleniX is an OpenSolaris distribution which is currently in the […]
For many years now, the Chinese Government has been filtering traffic with certain “offending” key words like D-e-m-o-c-r-a-c-y, F-a-l-u-n and many others. This national censorship has been accepted by most of the world as fact. Even large dotcoms such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have customized their Chinese search engines to not return results with […]
A good number of us remember the GPL suit against Linksys/Cisco in the past that forced Linksys/Cisco to release the code of the famous Linksys WRT54G router and Wifi device. This allowed the creation of custom Linux distributions for the WRT54G device that contain more features than the stock firmware. This started a thriving hobbyist […]
Migs just blogged about his forays into offline blogging with w.bloggar. Unfortunately, w.bloggar is only available for MS Windows boxen. So, I searched from something that will run on Linux and found BloGTK.
BloGTK is a weblog client that allows you to post to your weblog from Linux without the need for a separate browser window. […]
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has pulled a fast one on network operators and customers once more. This CNet article features the introduction of a tax on Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services. This tax only affects those services that connect to the US PSTN such as Vonage. Services like Skype are unaffected by this new tax. […]
I bumped into this interesting picture from a Slashdot posting. This shows a campaign map of the epic battle of Free and Open Source Software versus the Microsoft Empire.
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However, you should take this image for its “entertainment value” than a statement of fact. Hilarious!
I just received an annoucement from Fydor of NMAP fame in the Philippine Honeynet Project mailing list annoucing the release of his 2006 Security Tool Survey. Here is the annoucement:
After the tremendously successful 2000 and 2003 security tools surveys, Insecure.Org is delighted to release this 2006 survey. I (Fyodor) asked users from the nmap-hackers mailing […]
I don’t play Ragnarok and other MMORPGs. I probably never will too. I like playing regular RPGs and strategy games. The only reason I don’t play MMORPGs is that I don’t want to spend a penny on it. But, I know a lot of people who do. And all of the them are properly functioning […]
Due to the recent high profile loss of many US Veteran’s personal information, some people are pointing their fingers at telecommuting. They are blaming the ability to bring work home as the culprit for an obvious information security failure. In this particular case, the personal information was taken from a stolen Veteran’s Affairs personnel laptop. […]
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