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The politics involved with Information Security is heating up again. Since Symantec bought SecurityFocus and attempted to conform to the controversial "responsible disclosure" paradigm, the SecFocus mailing lists' content has changed. Most are prevented from the timely learning of a vulnerability's details unless they can afford a very high subscription price. Bugtraq, being one of SecFocus's lists, is also involved
We all know the story the RIAA & MPAA want to control there media and stop people from stealing. On the other had those of us that are in the Fair Use camp want to be able to play and listen to music we purchase on any device we choose to listen to it on even if we have to
I had to laugh California legislators actually think they are going to be able to impose a $500.00 fine per each Spam mail rcvd. Now I tell you what folks if they think they can enforce this let alone collect the money it will be the California Spam Rush as everyone will move to California. Lets see turn off all
I respond to a lot of articles that I think affect the way your personal privacy and your rights as they revolve around the DMCA. I have also advocated that you write to your respective elected official and tell them how you feel. E-Mail is fine but nothing beats a hand written letter. Below are links to both the House
A couple of congressmen actually understand the dilemma that we as consumers are facing. "The fair use doctrine is threatened today as never before," says Boucher. "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act dramatically tilted the copyright balance toward complete copyright protection at the expense of the Fair Use rights of the users of copyrighted material." I wish them both luck in
My folks live in a rural area. So rural in fact that you could run around in the yard naked if you wanted to and so long as you did not go hang out by the road you probably would not be seen. Being they choose to live in the country they are stuck on dial-up as this is the
There is more information being leaked out about the landmark agreement that the RIAA and Software/Consumer Product vendors hashed out. Unfortunately as we reported before they did not invite the MPAA so now you have a Goliath Versus Goliath battle that is already getting ugly. With the RIAA and their collaborators now pitted against MPAA legislative initiatives this could boil