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News for
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contributed by Silicosis
H.R. 514 (The Wireless Privacy Enhancement Act of 1999 ) is scheduled
to be voted on by the House today and from their will move to the
Senate. This is a bill that will restrict the monitoring of personal
communications such as pagers and cellular telephone conversations by
limiting the manufacture of scanners that are capable or easily
modifiable to receive such transmissions. Depending on interpretation
this bill could also mean the end to the monitoring of Police , Fire,
Ambulance and other 'Public Safety' frequencies. It will make it
illegal to receive or intercept pocsag, flex, mdt, etc.. frequencies.
This 'crime' will be punishable by up to six months in jail and up to a
$2,000 fine. Again we urge you to make you opinion known to your elected
official. It is NOT to late!
Sample Faxes to
your Congress person
Full Text
of HR 514
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contributed by erewon
A high School student has found a security hole in the Cobalt RaQ
server. The Cobalt RaQ is a cool rack mountable blue box that is sold to
ISPs as an easy to setup and maintain web server. The preinstalled
Linux and server software is ready to go out of the box. The security
hole is due to the standard Linux history file being accessible from the
web browser as a default.
This history file records all activity on a system like mistyped
passwords. By searching for the default web page on the sever with a
search engine such as AltaVista it is easy to find vulnerable sites
(Aren't search engines wonderful?)
Wired
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Aussies want report back.
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contributed by Kr00
A controversial report, known as the Walsh Report, that was written two
years ago but only recently uncovered may soon disappear again.
Australian government publisher AusInfo has sent letters to all original
recipients of the report asking for its return. This report advocated
the use of PC bugging, software booby-traps and legalized cracking by
law enforcement. AusInfo has said that the recall was due to an
administrative error and that the report was still under embargo by the
federal attorney general.
The
Australian
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contributed by m3gaHurtz
Not content with the wide bands of the radio spectrum already reserved
for military use the Department of Defense has asked congress to set
aside even more of the radio spectrum.
Federal
Computer Week
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contributed by Code Kid
Send SPAM go to jail. That is the intent of a new law soon to be signed
by the Governor of Virginia. With AOL and several other major ISPs
located in Virginia this could make things real difficult for spammers.
Nando
Times
Copy
of Virginia Bill
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contributed by ViPER
We have linked to this site before but it is just to funny not to
mention again. The sign of a good parody is that people take it
seriously just like this page. Definitely worth checking out. I busted
both guts after reading this page.
Innerpulse News
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contributed by Frank
Want to know how to crash a Nokia 5110 GSM phone with a denial of
service? Check out Service Watch.
Service
Watch
In a related story here is an article on just how Nokia protects its
Intranet from attack.
TechWeb
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contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
We have recieved reports that the following sites have been
compromised:
http://gam0rra.evil.nu
http://www.nourl.gr
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