Monthly Archives: February 2004

The Elec­tronic Fron­tier Foun­da­tion has come up with a new peer-to-peer music shar­ing sys­tem that pays the artists based on the ASCAP/BMI/SESAC sys­tem used in broad­cast radio. But the RIAA seems unwill­ing to aban­don its pol­icy of mass lawsuits.

I’m a lit­tle con­fused. David Auc­smith, Microsoft’s secu­rity head, claims that hack­ers exploit Win­dows patches, reverse engi­neer­ing the patches rather than Win­dows itself. Does this mean MS will stop patch­ing? It would cer­tainly make sense, given the quotes at the … Read More →

Just for fun, com­pare the Top 10 Web Sites from 1996 with today’s. It’s amaz­ing how com­mer­cial the web is now, I remem­ber back when you couldn’t have such sites, now they’re the rule, rather than the exception.

Out in Sparta, Wis­con­sin is the Cis­ter­cian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank. But you might know them bet­ter as the LaserMonks.

If you’re look­ing to extend secu­rity beyond fire­walls, then Port­knock­ing a sys­tem for stealthy authen­ti­ca­tion across closed ports may be what you’re look­ing for. The 50,000 ft. view: You start with a machine with all ports closed. A client wish­ing to com­mu­ni­cate … Read More →

Microsoft had its Tokyo office raided by Japan’s Fair Trade Com­mis­sion as part of a probe into how it sup­plies Win­dows XP soft­ware for com­put­ers sold in Japan. More details as I can get them.