Feds convict warez pirate
The Department of Justice has landed its first conviction against an American defendant trapped via Operation Fastlink, a multinational law enforcement effort undertaken against online software piracy.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa said that Jathan Desir, 26, of Iowa City, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his role in a criminal [...]
Interview: Popular Telephony P2P Revolutionizes VoIP
The first PBXs started at the Central Office (CO) using Centrex, and as its name implies, it was a “centralized” architecture located in the carriers’ offices. PBXs then evolved to a CPE-based (customer-premise equipment) model, which again required a “centralized” PBX to host all the call switching/routing functionality. And now with Popular Telephony’s Peerio P2P [...]
Good Bye NT
With just hours left before Microsoft discontinues most support for Windows NT4, many blue-chip companies and e-commerce providers continue to run their web sites on the eight year old operating system, although the last Fortune 100 holdout has migrated.
Microsoft has retired NT4, which was introduced in September 1996, and will cease security updates on Dec. [...]
F-Secure finds 2 Cabir variants
F-Secure says it’s found two bad news Cabir variants affecting Symbian Series 60 phones.
Posting on the company’s blog, Jarno says:
“First of all, these new variants seem to be recompiled versions based on original Cabir source code. Which means that the Cabir source code is floating around in the underground. Which is bad news. [...]
US: world’s worst spammer
The United States is Number One in the Dirty Dozen list of the worst spam producing countries, according to a UK security firm.
America is exporting 42.11% of all spam, says Sophos..
In second place is South Korea (13.43%) with China (8.44%, including Hong Kong), Canada (5.71%0 and Brazil (3.34%) in the 3rd, 4th and 5th [...]
CAN-SPAM not seen to be effective
A year after the U.S. Congress passed the first federal antispam law, observers see no evidence that it has cut the amount of unwanted commercial e-mail arriving in U.S. residents inboxes.
Most vendors of antispam products have charted an increase in the amount of spam since the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing [...]
DRM: ‘end run on fair use’
Everyone who knows about DRM knows it’s nothing more than an end run on fair use. If section 1201 applied to patents, nobody would be allowed to own a wrench or screwdriver because they might have been used to make and sell copies of the latest automobiles.
These industry groups promised the US congress [...]
China’s new IPv6 Net
China’s new IPv6 Net
The IPv6 router
China says it’s achieved a world-first with its next generation Internet network CERNET2, the largest Internet Protocol Version 6 network anywhere.
“Compared with the current IP Version 4, the new version is capable of allocating endless IP addresses, and features a transportation speed of 10G per second, 1,000 [...]
Yet Another Music Pirate?
Her parents told her to stop downloading music on the computer, but Kristina Foley didn’t listen.
Now, hundreds of downloads later, the music industry is suing her for thousands of dollars. Her lawyer’s bill is $1,000 and climbing, and 20-year-old Foley, the area’s first accused music pirate, is wondering how she’s going to pay for [...]
The Season of Sharing
It’s been a mere five years since the RIAA redefined “sharing” from being a virtue to the very bad thing it represents today.They’ve taught us other valuable lessons as well during the past half-decade, while seemingly learning nothing at all themselves.After 7000 lawsuits, the file sharers still dodge and weave, change software, use firewalls, and [...]
