30 Jan 2004
FBI Agent Talks Crime, Macs

... many of the computer security folks back at FBI HQ use Macs running OS X, since those machines can do just about anything: run software for Mac, Unix, or Windows, using either a GUI or the command line. And they're secure out of the box. In the field, however, they don't have as much money to spend, so they have to stretch their dollars by buying WinTel-based hardware. Are you listening, Apple? The FBI wants to buy your stuff. Talk to them!

(link) [Slashdot]

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Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click

As the Slashdot poster points out, you could reduce this entire 5 page knowledge base article from Microsoft to a single sentence: Don't use Internet Explorer!

Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks.

(link) [Slashdot]

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Needed: An RIAA for Porn

I really do feel sorry for folks, no matter what industry they're in, who get ripped off by copyright pirates. But this guys solution of suing Visa and MasterCard for infringement because they provided payment services to the theives is like the police charging the phone company with bank robbery because the robbers plotted the dirty deed over the phone.

The music business isn't the only industry plagued by Internet piracy: A pornographer sues a number of financial institutions, accusing them of supplying transaction support for other pornographers ripping off his content.

(link) [Wired News]

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E-Vote Still Flawed, Experts Say

I'm shocked, shocked I say! to discover that Diebold voting systems are insecure.

I'll be even more shocked if they managed to fis it, without moving it off Windows.

Researchers hired to hack Diebold's electronic-voting equipment give the machines a failing grade for security, despite recent fixes. But they say repairs can be put in place before March primaries. By Kim Zetter.

(link) [Wired News]

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