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EDUCAUSE | 1 Aug 2002 01:43

Edupage, July 31, 2002

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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2002
  Clarke Urges Hackers to Find and Report Bugs
  H-P Uses DMCA Against Bug Finders
  Despite FCC, WorldCom Could End Internet Services
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  Microsoft Enlists Academics for Security Board
  IBM to Buy Consulting Group
  Stiff Sentences for Online Fraud
  StarOffice Not Forthcoming for Mac

CLARKE URGES HACKERS TO FIND AND REPORT BUGS
Richard Clarke, the cybersecurity advisor to President Bush, told
attendees of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas that they should
find and report software bugs that compromise computer security. Clarke
said that some of those listening "have an obligation to find the
vulnerabilities." According to Clarke, hackers should be responsible in
their disclosures of bugs, letting the software company know first and
allowing the company time to fix the bug before the weakness is made
public. If someone finds a bug and acts in good faith to see that it is
addressed, that person should not be prosecuted, Clarke said, saying
that legal protections may need to be installed for hackers disclosing
security flaws.
Associated Press, 31 July 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/484376p-3867743c.html

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EDUCAUSE | 3 Aug 2002 00:51

Edupage, August 02, 2002

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TOP STORIES FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 02, 2002
  H-P Withdraws Warning
  Utah Man Sues Under State's New Spam Law
  Survey Shows New Willingness to Pay for Digital Content
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  Pressplay Modifies Its Service
  Wireless Restrictions at Pentagon
  IBM Debuts New Processor Facility

H-P WITHDRAWS WARNING
Hewlett-Packard has backed down after a strong and vocal reaction
against the company's threat to use the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA) against programmers who disclose flaws in H-P's software.
The company had sent a letter to SnoSoft, invoking the copyright
legislation as grounds for potential legal action against the
researchers for disclosing security flaws in its Unix software. Many
took the letter as an attempt to stifle independent research into
system security. According to an official at H-P, the reaction was
"significant." H-P would not comment on whether it would pursue action
against SnoSoft outside the DMCA, but the company said it would not
rely on the DMCA and that researchers who follow "industry standard
security practice" have no reason to fear legal warnings from H-P.
CNET, 1 August 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947745.html

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EDUCAUSE | 6 Aug 2002 00:37

Edupage, August 05, 2002

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TOP STORIES FOR MONDAY, AUGUST 05, 2002
  Senators Propose Privacy Commission
  Japanese ID System Has Bumpy Launch
  Microsoft Acts before Settlement Is Approved
  Genuity Struggles to Stay Solvent
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  New Chip Includes a Processor and Memory
  NEC Offers All-in-One, Eco-Friendly Computer
  Defense Department Challenges Robotics Researchers

SENATORS PROPOSE PRIVACY COMMISSION
Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and John Edwards (D-N.C.) have
proposed a new privacy commission to balance the need for security with
privacy concerns. According to the senators, the commission would
neither have the power to restrict the technologies used for
surveillance nor dictate acceptable ways to use technology. Instead,
the commission would provide an open forum to discuss those uses and
their potential impacts on privacy. Congress and the president would
appoint commission members from business, law enforcement, and security
organizations. Schumer and Edwards support the use of new technologies
to protect national security, but they see a need to balance new
investigative powers with individuals' privacy. The senators hope to
attach an amendment establishing the commission to an upcoming bill,
perhaps the one that would create the Department of Homeland Security.

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EDUCAUSE | 8 Aug 2002 01:01

Edupage, August 07, 2002

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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 07, 2002
  Government Wants to Reinvent Information Technologies
  Cell Program Promises Supercomputer on a Chip
  Providers Barely Notice Internet Attacks
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  Cornell Computing Center Gets $60 Million Boost
  IBM Investigates Low-Power Computers
  AMD Introduces Energy Efficient Flash Memory Chip

GOVERNMENT WANTS TO REINVENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
A new project from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA) has as its goal the "total reinvention of technologies for
storing and accessing information." The Total Information Awareness
(TIA) system, which will be funded by grants from DARPA, is an attempt
by the federal government to construct a highly data-intensive system
that can spot clues to terrorist plans long before they come to
fruition. Grant applicants are warned that no money will be invested in
"research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to
existing technology"; officials are committed to a fundamental redesign
of technology. TIA plans call for unprecedented amounts of data,
measured in petabytes, to be stored and accessed. Civil liberties
groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation find the prospect
of such a system very worrisome without strict rules to prevent it from
becoming a powerful secret spy machine.

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EDUCAUSE | 10 Aug 2002 00:39

Edupage, August 09, 2002

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TOP STORIES FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 09, 2002
  FCC Requires Digital TV by 2007
  Spam on the Rise
  Microsoft Agrees to Government Oversight for Passport
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  NACAC Shutters Online College Fairs
  Portals Becoming a Top Priority for Many Institutions
  RIAA to Appeal Web Radio Royalty
  Temple University Receives Grant to Study CRM

FCC REQUIRES DIGITAL TV BY 2007
Regulators at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-1
Thursday to require digital tuners in all but the smallest new
televisions by 2007. The tuners will be necessary to receive local
television signals after broadcasters switch from analog to digital
transmissions sometime in the next few years. The regulators said
consumers should be able to receive television signals after the end of
analog transmissions, without having to spend several hundred dollars
on a separate set-top box to accommodate the digital broadcasts or
having to subscribe to cable or satellite service. Television
manufacturers said they would try to block the ruling, saying that the
tuners would add $250 to the price of an average television and that
cable and satellite subscribers wouldn't need the tuner. The FCC
argued that the cost of the tuner would drop with increased production.

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EDUCAUSE | 12 Aug 2002 23:46

Edupage, August 12, 2002

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TOP STORIES FOR MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2002
  IBM Takes Aim at Sun
  Sun Targets IBM and Microsoft with New Line of Servers
  Microsoft Turns to H-P for Services
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  Online Peer Reviews Gain Momentum
  Reports Show a Lull in Computer Viruses
  Sony Debuts New Copy Protections

IBM TAKES AIM AT SUN
At the LinuxWorld Conference, IBM introduced a new server designed to
compete with low-end servers from Sun Microsystems. The new server is
an Intel-based machine that can run Linux or Windows. According to IBM,
independent research showed three-year savings of as much as $475,000
for companies using Linux rather than Solaris, Sun's operating system.
IBM has dedicated a deployment team to help customers switch from
Solaris to Linux, and the company also touted its new server's ability
to be used in clusters or computing grids.
NewsFactor Network, 12 August 2002
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18984.html

SUN TARGETS IBM AND MICROSOFT WITH NEW LINE OF SERVERS
Sun Microsystems will introduce a new line of low-end servers with
Intel chips, targeted at IBM and Microsoft on different fronts. The

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EDUCAUSE | 15 Aug 2002 00:39

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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2002
  Government Wants to Shut Down PubScience
  Report Says File-Swapping Still Increasing
  Dell to Offer PCs without Operating Systems
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  Princeton Disciplines Admissions Staff
  EDUCAUSE Announces Award Winners
  Apple Scales Back Prices, Adds Features

GOVERNMENT WANTS TO SHUT DOWN PUBSCIENCE
The U.S. Department of Energy runs a Web site called PubScience that
allows users to simultaneously search more than 1,000 scientific
journals for abstracts and citations. But the department wants to close
the Web site, saying that two commercial operations, Scirus and
Infotrieve, offer almost the same services. A notice at the PubScience
site (http://pubsci.osti.gov/) says that 90 percent of PubScience's
content is covered by these other sites and that their offerings are
expected to increase. A 30-day public comment period will end on
September 30, after which a final decision will be made on the future
of PubScience. Publishers of some small scientific journals argue that
closing the government-run site would be a bad idea because their
journals are not covered by either Scirus or Infotrieve.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 August 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/08/2002081401t.htm

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EDUCAUSE | 17 Aug 2002 00:00

Edupage, August 16, 2002

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TOP STORIES FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 2002
  Tech Job Market Remains Flat, Despite Projections
  Developers Show Support for California Bill
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  Internet2 Adds IPv6 to Abilene
  Students, Faculty Upset at New Course Requirement
  Electronic GRE Draws Heavy Criticism
  Super Fast Network at Case Western

TECH JOB MARKET REMAINS FLAT, DESPITE PROJECTIONS
Many analysts had predicted a rebound for the technology economy by
now, with a commensurate increase in hiring of high-tech workers. A
recovery has not materialized, however, and, according to placement
agency Challenger Gray and Christmas, the technology sector has lost
more than 243,000 jobs this year. The market is especially bad in
Silicon Valley, which registered the highest unemployment rate of all
U.S. metropolitan areas. Continued weakness in the market is blamed on
several factors, including large-scale, high-profile corporate
collapses, such as WorldCom, and persistent uneasiness in the stock
market.
NewsFactor Network, 15 August 2002
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19029.html

DEVELOPERS SHOW SUPPORT FOR CALIFORNIA BILL

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EDUCAUSE | 20 Aug 2002 00:05

Edupage, August 19, 2002

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TOP STORIES FOR MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2002
  Security Experts Hack Military PCs
  NIPC Looks for Help
  Government Continues to Lose Computers
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  Students Prefer Paper to Online News
  Report Says Employees Lack Technology Skills
  Purdue Offers Web Site for Farmers

SECURITY EXPERTS HACK MILITARY PCS
Security experts at ForensicTec Solutions, a four-month old security
consulting firm, were able to gain access to several military PCs
around the country. A representative of the company said, "We were
shocked and almost scared by how easy it was to get in." Among the data
that the experts found were personnel records containing Social
Security numbers, security clearance levels, and credit card numbers;
vendor records including company bank account and financial routing
numbers; and an air support squadron's "smart book" that details radio
encryption techniques. Military sources acknowledged the break-in,
saying all of the exposed data were unclassified. Officials said the
military is working to secure all data and computers, including those
connected to the Internet and other public networks. The president of
ForensicTec said his company pursued the intrusion and reported the
problems to alert the government of the weakness and to "get some

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EDUCAUSE | 22 Aug 2002 00:00

Edupage, August 21, 2002

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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2002
  U.S. Plans to Prosecute Peer-to-Peer Pirates
  Promos to Tackle Piracy Education
  Privacy Group Says EU Planning to Increase Surveillance
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  Three Virginia Schools Partner in New Technology Center
  Using Poetry to Stop Spam
  Cisco to Buy Andiamo Systems

U.S. PLANS TO PROSECUTE PEER-TO-PEER PIRATES
U.S. deputy assistant attorney general John Malcolm told an audience at
The Progress and Freedom Foundation's annual summit that Americans
need to understand that swapping copies of music and movies is illegal
and can result in prison terms. He said that the Internet has become
"the world's largest copy machine" and that criminal prosecution of
copyright offenders is needed to protect America's content industries.
Malcolm oversees the section of the Justice Department that prosecutes
copyright and computer crime cases.
CNET, 20 August 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954591.html

PROMOS TO TACKLE PIRACY EDUCATION
Peter Chernin, News Corp. president and Fox Group chief executive, said
that public service announcements warning viewers against copyright

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