22 Jan 2004
Security and Fort N.O.C.'s

This article takes apart a piece on the DNS system and root servers that appeared on MSNBC. Very instructive article from the standpoint of illustrating exactly how journalists who don't understand a system can completely booger up any story they write concerning it.

In an article by MSNBC called "Fort N.O.C.'s" [Network Operating Center] Brock N. Meeks reports: "The unassuming building that houses the "A" root sits in a cluster of three others; the architecture looks as if it were lifted directly from a free clip art library. No signs or markers give a hint that the Internet's most precious computer is inside humming happily away in a hermetically sealed room. This building complex could be any of a 100,000 mini office...

(link) [CircleID]

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SCO Lobbying Congress Against Open Code

If you can't beat'em in the marketplace, and the courts laugh at your bogus case, then just try to legislate the competition out of existence...

Along with suing Novell - it was announced today that SCO has been lobbying Congress about the horrifying ways that Linux and the rest of open source software saves users money, allows others to use the software anyway they see fit and 'gasp' causes SCO to not make as much money as they would like.

(link) [Slashdot]

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