Sorry that there are no notes on the news links. I let the day get away from me and ran up against other time constraints to get my bookmarks for the week read and reviewed.
Quick News Links
- 50 years of internet history
- Australia consider nation-wide vehicle tracking
- New paper out of Princeton on problems of gov’t data sharing
- Net radio bill passes the House
- Public Resource starting to publish purchased copies of legal codeonline
- MS, Nokia adopt open source jQuery library
- How programmers become famous
- EFF, others file brief in Limewire case to help preserve innovation
- EU telecoms package tries to reserve net disconnection to judges
- BT starts third Phorm trial, opt-in this time
- Re-considering buses in many core designs
- Congress passed broadband data collection bill to examine statethereof
- EU strongly supports free, open Internet
- Autralian ISPs believe metering solves neutrality issues
- Substantial challenges of cloud computing
- RMS skeptical of cloud computing
- And a fast response to RMS’ skepticism
- Amazon enables encryption to close streaming hole
- PirateBay to sue over copyright infringement
- Flash player for the iPhone confirmed, no date set
- How to run a bug bash
- Orphan works bill indefinitely stalled
- Apple may shut down iTunes if CRB enforces raised royalties
- CRB holds download royalties steady
- VA court misstates issues around IP addresses trying to protect freespeech
- GIMP 2.6 released
- Research to more quickly spot municipal WiFi dead spots
- Judge suppressed report on voting system security
- Scareware vendors sued
- Interview with two of the Pirate Bay’s founders
- China monitoring Skype communications
- Cell chip on a daughter board
- New semantically aware web applications
- Python 2.6 released
- Python 2.6 as aid to upgrade to 3.0
- Microsoft’s bid to take over ODF
Quick Security Alert Links
- New anti-malware approach modifies Linux kernel
- Firefox fix for password glitch
- Securing session IDs in web applications
- CSRF still rampant
- More on CSRF exploits
- New, super subtle Windows rootkit
- New lethal DoS attack
- New tool for VoIP eavesdropping
- Tool to manipulate electronic passports released
- New credit card security standard
- Researchers share critical TPC/IP flaw
- Cracks in Google CAPTCHA deepen
Quick Follow Up Links
- Pandora still fighting to survive
- House passes web radio bill
- House approves Senate’s PRO-IP language
- Real sues to keep RealDVD legal
- Details of industry suit against RealDVD
- Blizzard awarded $6MM in damages in Glider case
- Apple files to dismiss Psystar counter suit
- Judge rules confusingly against Does in Arista case