] "I am a U.S. university student who has recently come
] across 2 remote exploits for a homework program used by
] colleges nationwide. Both vulnerabilities allow students
] to give themselves arbitrary scores, and possibly execute
] arbitrary code. To further emphasize the scope of this
] vulnerability, I have written and -selftested
] proof-of-concept exploit code. Naturally, I want to share
] this information with their software engineers, and would
] even be nice enough and suggest a means to fixing it.
] However, with the state of current intellectual property
] and reverse-engineering laws, I hesitate to do so out of
] fear of litigation or academic disciplinary action. As an
] ethical geek, what do -you- do?"

this sounds familiar.

Disclosure of Major Software Exploits by Students?

] It includes the leap seconds added until the GPS clock
] was set in 1980, but has ignored those added since. This
] means GPS time is now running 13 seconds ahead of
] coordinated universal time - which includes all added
] leap seconds and to which most clocks on Earth are set -
] but is some 19 seconds behind international atomic time,
] which is based on atomic clocks and ignores leap seconds.

who knew it was so complicated?

What time is it? Well, no one knows for sure

] In one IRC chat group a user was selling credit card
] numbers for 50 cents to $1 each, while another wanted
] lessons on cracking online sites containing credit card
] information.

LOL! Oh no! The white hats have discovered IRC!

Credit card hackers swap tricks online

] Currently, nearly 100 per cent of broadband access is
] provided by carriers on a flat-rate basis, in spite of
] the fact that this is not the most efficient or
] economical access mode for either the carrier or the
] customer.

Of course all the right buzzwords are in this article (LDAP, QoS, rate-limiting, etc) but the fundamental issue is that public IP networks do not allow this kind of control. Simply changing some ACLs to allow you to access a video server if you pay extra is not the holy grail of metered billing.

Euros moving towards metered broadband

] The federal broadcast regulator has ordered Canada's
] biggest telephone companies to offer high-speed Internet
] access to consumers in their areas who buy their phone
] service from another company.
]
] Monday's decision by the Canadian Radio-television and
] Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) splits phone and
] high-speed service.

hmm... no war mongering, healthcare for all, no stupid war on drugs... Canada is looking better and better...

CRTC says big telcos must split residential phone and high-speed Net services

] It's like a shotgun marriage gone oddly harmonious:
] Hollywood and the consumer electronics industry are now
] working closer together after a few years of claws-out
] antagonism in courtrooms and on Capitol Hill.

hmmm.... this smells like spin...

Tech companies bow to entertainment world in device features

] As devices get smarter, they can identify and adapt to
] individual users in a household, potentially making
] suggestions on everything from what to eat to how to
] dress. "Think of it as the electronic equivalent of an
] English butler," says Emile Aarts, vice-president and
] scientific program director at Philips Research
] Laboratories in Eindhoven. Those concepts may seem
] pie-in-the-sky now, but many are being tested in
] corporate labs -- and some are nearing commercialization.

Let's hope the telecom service providers don't screw this up.

Digital Homes

] Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac lets
] you connect your Mac to a Windows-based computer, and
] work with programs and files on that computer.

Kick Ass

Remote Desktop Client for Mac

] OK, I realize all this is quasi-hypothetical and
] long-range. By now it's true that U.S. cell phone
] carriers at least have woken up to Wi-Fi. And the
] software to facilitate Wi-Fi roaming is still to be
] perfected. But it just illustrates all the
] three-dimensional chess pieces in play in telecom, as the
] Internet continues its steady march to transform much of
] modern life.

Yes, the Internet *still* changes everything!

Will Wi-Fi Revolutionize the Phone?

] Systems Affected
]
] All Cisco devices running Cisco IOS software and
] configured to process Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
] packets

Get yo patch on