"A bug exists in the channel code of OpenSSH versions 2.0 -3.0.2. Users with an existing user account can abuse this bug to gain root privileges. Exploitability without an existing user account has not been proven but is not considered impossible. A malicious ssh server could also use this bug to exploit a connecting vulnerable client."

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"A new buzzword has been added to the networking industry, one with a meaning far less technical than most: "CFN," an abbreviation for "Cisco-Free Network." "

Cisco gets theirs...

Cracks in Cisco's empire - Tech News - CNET.com

This person has decided to live life as a Neal Stevenson character. Kind of cool if you don't have anything to loose.

He Hacks by Day, Squats by Night

This is a cool paper. Various devices, including modems, routers, disk drives and printers leak the data they are transmitting through their LEDs. This is much easier then "Tempest." The hardware required to recover this information costs like $10.

Data Leaking from LEDS

A Net-controlled robot reporter from MIT may be headed for Afghanistan.

Salon.com Technology | Do androids dream of First Amendment rights?

Researchers report on their success in applying two "hyper" topologies to improve the scalability of Gnutella. This brief paper seems to be getting a lot of press.

Doesn't this seem like a "duh" to you? These topologies aren't new. I recall discussing the virtual hypertorus with Tom in ~1996 in regard to the "pipenet" idea. They are quite common in the literature of high-performance cluster computing.

In an ad-hoc P2P network, I suspect it will be problematic to discover the network topology and then force users to interconnect themselves in this way. Even so, this paper is useful in that it demonstrates (theoretically) viable alternatives to the untrustworthy Morpheus/KaZaA-style "supernode"-based architectures.

Hypernets -- Good (G)news for Gnutella

If you want to be in the right place at the right time you need to figure out where things are going...

BT's future timeline

""We're trying to make human DJs obsolete as far as possible," he chuckles. "They're expensive, they're unreliable. If we can make this machine work we'll give club owners an easy time." "

BBC News | BOSTON 2002 | The rockin' robot

Over 200 implementations of SNMP impacted by DoS and Buffer Overflow exploits.

CERT Advisory CA-2002-03 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Many Implementations of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

"Robots are being let loose in a colony of machines in an attempt to find out whether they can learn from their experiences.
The scientists behind this unusual experiment describe it as an evolutionary arms race for robots, with the machines struggling to collect energy. "

Life starts to resemble a Rudy Rucker novel.

BBC News | SCI/TECH | Robot wars for real