contributed by Weld Pond
OpenBSD, a Free UNIX variant that places emphasis on portability, standardization, correctness, security, and cryptography, has just been upgraded to version 2.5. OpenBSD is a multiplatform and ultrasecure operating system. HNN uses it, shouldn't you? "OpenBSD: Sending the Kiddies to /dev/null since 1992"

openbsd.org
Amazon.com- Reserve Your Copy Today!

contributed by Macki
With demonstrations now scheduled in front of the US Embassy in Russia the FREE KEVIN movement goes World Wide. Kevin Mitnick has been held in pretrial detention since February 15, 1995, without a constitutionally guaranteed bail hearing for possession of software allegedly worth millions of dollars. Protest demonstrations are now being planned around the world for Friday, June 4 in front of federal courthouses and U.S. embassies beginning at 2 pm to protest the unjust treatment of Kevin Mitnick. If there is a protest in your city please attend. If there is not please organize one. The government must be shown that the people will not sit idly by while their rights are trampled!

FREE KEVIN Demonstrations

contributed by g0rn
New legislation recently tacked onto the Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Accountability and Rehabilitation Act will make 'bomb-making information' on the net illegal. The law would also apply to any form of distribution--books, magazines, or videos. Well we suggest that you get copies of any information you feel may be threatened now and sock it away.

C|Net
textfiles.com- Get 'em while you can

Bombing victims held a press conferance yesterday to plead with Internet companies to purge or block Web sites that carry recipes for building bombs. How come no one is protesting the local library or the High School chemistry book? Why does everyone always pick on the internet?

Nando Times
Wired

Late Update
This information is fast disapearing from the web. The above site textfiles.com has already removed the relevent sections (at least temporarily) We suggest you grab what you can while you can.

The Anarchists Cookbook
Highly Explosive Pyrotechnic Compositions
Homemade C-4 : A Recipe for Survival
Improvised Explosives : How to Make Your Own

303.org has graciously mirrored the missing sections from textfiles.com. They are still working on it but some stuff is available now.

303.org

contributed by erewhon
A year shy of completing his probation after being indicted on two counts of felony theft in January 1995, Dark Spyre (Ryan David Schwartz) may soon end up behind bars. For several weeks in 1993-94 Dark Spyre worked on breaking the codes of a long-distance phone company based in Mississippi. Part of his sentance for these crimes was probation. Now his probation may be revoked. The Assistant District Attorney claims that he violated his probation when he used a computer. Dark Spyre claims that the closest he has gotten to a computer is when he asked a schoolmate to type a paper for him. Allowing someone else to use a computer on Schwartz's behalf, is the same as if Schwartz had used it, the DA said.

ComputerNews Daily

contributed by Weld Pond
Actinic Software LLC has Actinic Catalog 3.0, a plug-and-play e-commerce software package. The company is making the claim that it uses unhackable technology. It almost sounds like an invitation. Will people ever learn that nothing is unhackable? It all depends on time and energy. Something says that the marketing department probably didn't run the press release by the engineers before they released it.

Excite News

contributed by Space Rogue
M. Ken Co., Ltd.,a developer of electronic water marking technology, will begin on June 1st to list web sites that contain illegal MP3s. The company will offer these lists to companies that are seeking copyright infringements on the web, it will also publish this information on its web site. The service will use an agent developed by M. Ken. The agent can search and locate MP3 files on the Web. During a test over 400 illegal sites where found.

AsiaBiz Tech

contributed by ratko
IHN is a project being built to bring people free host names and URL forwarding as well as many more features. Like the now defunct ml.org, IHN promises DNS for the masses. There is also free URL forwarding hosts, and soon to come, IRC Proxying.

Internet Host Network

contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
The following sites have been reported to HNN as cracked
http://www.state.vt.us
http://www.isci-cuautla.com.mx
http://www.nitro7.com
http://www.beaver.edu
http://isgdevel.sbt.com
http://www.bdsm.cz
http://(www.ies.ncsu.ed
http://bell.shops.bnl.gov
http://bernoulli.gsfc.nasa.gov
http://info.law.arizona.edu
http://htc149.hi-techcolor.com
http://secure.wcoil.com