- Stuxnet analysis backs Iran-Israel connection, Slashdot
- Clues point to Israel as author of Stuxnet, or not, Wired
- Iran claims it’s tamed Stuxnet, arrested Israeli spies, ReadWriteWeb
- Could wiretapping law curtail quantum crypto development?, Scientific American
- Latest ACTA round ends with near agreement, Michael Geist
- More on largely finalized ACTA draft, Ars Technica
- EU parliament members not at all happy about ACTA, Techdirt
- Mexican senator proposes Mexico withdraw from ACTA, BoingBoing
- Latest draft of ACTA released, KEI
- US cave on ACTA internet chapter complete, Michael Geist
- OLPC gets $5.6M grant to develop tablet with Marvell, Slashdot
- Open Stack will be an option for Ubuntu’s server offering, The Register
- Oracle declines to join Document Foundation and its Libre Office fork, Computer World, via Groklaw’s news picks
- Google denies infringing Oracle’s patents, Wired
- Google cites history of Java in response to Oracles patent claims, ReadWriteWeb
- AT&T isn’t going to let FCC rules deter its use of paid prioritization, Ars Technica
- French ISP refuses to send out infringement notices, Slashdot
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Following Up for the Week Ending 8/25/2010
- FCC chief may demand neutrality conditions in Comcast, NBC merger
- USCG dumps two of its lawsuits but only to refile against individuals
- Why USCG abandoned its first two law suits
- Achieving net neutrality by removing incentives
- The case against net neutrality
- AT&T keen on Google-Verizon net neutrality proposal
- Google-Verizon should prompt FCC to demand net neutrality
Via Hacker News. - Protesting net neutrality proposal at Google’s HQ
- Viacom suit against YouTube continues
- Moglen sees Bilski as setting back patent reform a decade
- Further analysis of DMCA exemptions from EFF
- Next ACTA round yet again to be shrouded in secrecy
- ACTA agenda for round 10 revealed
TCLP 2010-08-01 News
This is news cast 220, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
In the intro, an apology for missing the last two shows, though I had good reason. I will be in San Francisco from August 9th to the 11th for Cassandra Summit and a training day. If anyone is interested in a meet up Monday or Tuesday night, let me know. And if you don’t read the web site, I am a finalist for a Parsec award.
This week’s security alerts are Apple fixes the autofill bug in Safari that I didn’t get to discuss last week and AT&T said it wouldn’t interfere with a Black Hat demo and was true to its word.
In this week’s news EFF wins three DMCA exemptions with deeper analysis from both them and Public Knowledge. There were two additional exemptions granted and many others that were not. I get why most of the coverage is so positive but I cannot help but give voice to my inner cynic. Also, the Senate prepares privacy legislation as industry discusses self regulation, a couple of stories about e-books in developing nations, and Slashdot is losing relevance on the social web.
Following up this week Al Franken frames net neutrality as key free speech issue and Canadian C-32 is clearly following the US DMCA.
View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Security Alerts for the Week Ending 7/4/2010
- Securing WordPress based on hard won, 1st hand experience
- New Twitter phishing attack
- New Microsoft Messenger has same security flaws as the old
- 22 million SSL certs in user are invalid
- Kraken botnet returns from the dustbin
- Adobe pushes out emergency fixes for Reader
- Qualitative differences in crypto and data usage
- White hate demonstrates Foursquare privacy hole capturing hundreds of thousands of logins
- Hack AT&T voice mail with Android
- Regular domains have more malware than porn sites
- Detection of suspicious logins extended to Google Apps
- Facebook apps must now seek user permission to access their data
- Replacing static CAPTCHAs with animation
- Top apps fail to utlize security features in Windows
- 50 arrested in spyware dragnet
- New Opera version includes malware protection
Security Alerts for the Week Ending 6/13/2010
- Prosecuting DDoS attacks
- Zero day exploit for Adobe Reader, Flash now in the wild
- Adobe Flash upgrade closes 32 security holes
- Pirated copy of Dr. Who game includes malware
- Researchers release point and click exploitation tool
- Safari update plugs 48 holes
- Microsoft fixes pwn2own flaw
- Bug gives attackers complete control over Windows PC’s
- Microsoft warns of flaw in help system in Windows XP, Server 2003
- Mass SQL injection attack affects sites running IIS
- Apple fixes history leak flaw in Safari that affects most browsers
- Mass hack puts malware on thousands of pages
- Zeus trojan spoofs IRS, twitter, YouTube
- Hackers claim AT&T exposed iPad users’ emails
- More on AT&T leak
- FBI looking into AT&T Leaks
- Hiring hackers
- Google fixes 11 security issues with Chrome update
feeds | grep links > New Copyright for Chile, Microsoft for HMTL5, AT&T’s Comment to IP Czar and Rumored Patent Attack on Theora
- Chile gets a new copyright law
As Mike Masnick explains it at Techdirt, it doesn’t sound as radical as India’s. The new limits and exceptions are no doubt welcome but hardly sweeping. Worse, the come at the expense of stiffer penalties for infringement. - Microsoft speaks up for HTML5, against Flash
Engadget has a link to comments from an IE program manager. I think this is hardly a surprise giving the drubbing IE is taking at the hands of every other browser that is already support parts of HTML5. Since this in the wakes of Jobs’ hate letter to Adobe over Flash, Microsoft touches on that too, conceding some points to Jobs but bowing to the ubiquity of Flash. - Surprising comments by AT&T to IP Czar
As Nate Anderson at Ars Technica explains, AT&T isn’t against three strikes but is for a lesser obligation from 3rd parties, such as itself, and more judicial oversight. It may seem surprising until you realize the costs the carrier would have to bear to process the notices required by a three strikes proposal. - Apple rumored to be assembling patent pool to use against Ogg Theora
It is a very good thing that Google announced its intent to open the VP-8 video codec that it got as part of its On2 acquisition. According to The Register, Jobs plan may have be provoked, or merely revealed, when an FSF advocate contacted him about open video in response to his Flash letter. While this is very speculative, it could slow Theora adoption so having another open codec backed by Google hedges the bets of those of us interested in open standards and open source for video on the web.
Following Up for the Week Ending 4/18/2010
- NZ backs exclusion of software from patents
- USTR statement on ACTA effectively ties transparency to fulfilling its priorities
- Wellington declaration on ACTA
- Official ACTA draft to be released next week
- USTR confirms public ACTA draft and exclusion of mandatory threestrikes
- Former FCC chief Powell discusses his antipathy for re-classifyingComcast
- IBM amends patent pledge
- Refuting claim that AT&T was ever regulated
- EU to discuss net neutrality this Summer
- FCC chair hasn’t spoken about classification yet
- Viacom releases more documents in case against YouTube
- Update on school spying in Philly suburb
- More pictures turn up in web cam school spying case
- Al Haramain lawyers demand legal fees