From the archive

June 2003

147 posts

Students being taught to write virus’s

This story has made the rounds some, but I had not commented on the subject. We got a comment that made me come back and add this disclaimer. While Geek News Central tries to always report the latest and greatest from time to time depending on what I am reading up on I may not get to a subject till

iTunes can the success continue

Apple's decision to close a loophole in it's Rendezvous feature may ultimately doom the service. With that decision they will more than likely have to close any loophole that hackers may find. The feature has obviously help sell records. We will see if they lock down the feature or do away with it all together. For everyones information apparently hackers

AOL Slaps down Nullsoft, file sharing program Waste removed from Distro

In a very interesting development Nullsoft a AOL subsidiary had release the file sharing software Waste. There was little fanfare in it's release but purportedly it was being downloaded quite heavily. AOL Intervened and had the release pulled from distribution. This makes me wonder if AOL is scared of the RIAA and MPAA. But the damage is already done the

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