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12:33 pm EDT, Jul 15, 2003 |
Just caught this one in my inbox.. Psyiode has started up a site to keep track of the Blackboard case. Its important to note that Psyiode has no connection to Acidus, Virgil, or any of the Interz0ne con staff. Blackboard may decide to come after him too. I like the domain. :) www.fuckblackboard.com |
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The Register - Blackboard press release |
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10:35 am EDT, Jul 15, 2003 |
] Blackboard said the settlement shows its systems are
] secure but the whole case is better understood as a
] successful attempt to protect the firm's reputation
] against the possibly exaggerated claims of a pair of
] student hacker/crackers The register got caught up in the spin as well. Since when is using the law an appropriate way to silence critics? Thats the very definition of censorship. Can we accept that this is really the final word on the story, given that its coming from blackboard, and that Acidus and Virgil are injoined from responding? Is Blackboard's technology secure? We may never know. What we do know is that Blackboard has effectively silenced their critics, with extreme prejudice. My lawyer is bigger then your lawyer should not trump the first amendment. In this case it has. These student settled because they did not have the means to defend themselves. Acidus and Virgil owe $20,000 in (clears throat) "legal fees." They are college students. They can't really afford this and they need help. If you would like to contribute, you can paypal the following email address: gte344p@prism.gatech.edu The Register - Blackboard press release |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer: BlackBoard press release |
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10:24 am EDT, Jul 15, 2003 |
] Two computer hackers admitted in a settlement Monday that
] they never completed a device that could cheat university
] campus debit card systems out of food, laundry machine
] use or sports tickets. Spin Spin Spin... More on this in a minute... Seattle Post-Intelligencer: BlackBoard press release |
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Politech: Direct Marketing Association's very narrow view of what spam is |
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9:39 pm EDT, Jul 14, 2003 |
] "Spam is essentially email that misrepresents an offer or
] misrepresents the originator, or in some way attempts to
] confuse or defraud people... The reality is that, in
] spite of all the trouble that email is causing, Americans
] and people all over the world in fact a lot of people do
] respond to email offers, and they often respond to offers
] for things they didn't even know existed, from people
] they didn't know existed." Welcome to the Spam topic. Yet another extremely overdue task on my todo list. Politech: Direct Marketing Association's very narrow view of what spam is |
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CNN.com - Traffic to filesharing sites drops - Jul. 14, 2003 |
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5:09 pm EDT, Jul 14, 2003 |
] Internet audience measurement service Nielsen Net Ratings
] said traffic on Kazaa, the leading filesharing platform,
] fell 15 percent in the week ended July 6 from the
] previous week. CNN.com - Traffic to filesharing sites drops - Jul. 14, 2003 |
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Whole Earth Magazine's - Singularity Issue |
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11:39 pm EDT, Jul 13, 2003 |
]What Happens When Technology Zooms
]Off The Chart? Wow, this looks like fun reading! Whole Earth Magazine's - Singularity Issue |
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'Fly boy' continues to suffer as doctors struggle |
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5:56 pm EDT, Jul 11, 2003 |
] The fully-grown flies, as doctors described the
] parasites, have been emerging out of Chandan Goswami's
] genitals and flying off for more than two weeks now. OMG!, this is a nightmare come true... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 'Fly boy' continues to suffer as doctors struggle |
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Where Have All the Lisas Gone? |
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11:55 am EDT, Jul 11, 2003 |
It seems perched at a precarious point from which it could, without warning, rocket into overuse. I am not so smug as to think myself immune to first-name zeitgeist. Girls' names are both more interesting to track and more vulnerable to sounding passe. Even pros are occasionally blindsided by a name, as when Trinity leapfrogged to 74 after the release of "The Matrix." A closer look finds that Trinity was already on the upswing, from 951 in 1993 to 555 five years later. Madison? No. 2? How in the name of good taste did that happen? The next big trend will be word names. Colors, for example. The tipping point came when Christie Brinkley named her daughter Sailor. Where Have All the Lisas Gone? |
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Linksys: GPL Code for WRT54G AP/Router |
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8:21 pm EDT, Jul 9, 2003 |
Lynksys has released the source for the software in one of their more recent 802.11g AP/Router models. Linksys: GPL Code for WRT54G AP/Router |
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