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contributed by Silicosis
A new bill passing through congress will make it legal for the police
to snoop on your pager without needing a judge to issue a court order.
They will only be able to get at the numeric pager info which law
enforcement argues is analogous to the billing info or "pen register"
info they can now access without a court order.
They say it is not a "wiretap" so the rules for unlawful search
do not apply. It seems just a few months ago congress was passing laws
saying that pager and other data passing over the radio spectrum was
protected. Congress wants it both ways. They want you to have privacy
from everyone but the government.
Wired
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contributed by Space Rogue
The government and military has taken a fancy to the Lotus product Notes
and is putting servers up on the internet for their employees to do their
work. Many of the servers have not been properly locked down and a lot of
information is available to anonymous web surfers if they can find the
servers and know the right URLs to use.
The L0pht has written several advisories on the problem and Weld Pond
from the L0pht is
interviewed in an iDefense news report.
iDefense
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contributed by Weld Pond
Mitnick's accomplice seeks distance as the "super hacker's" sentencing
moves closer. Lewis DePayne wants his court date to be as far away from
Mitnick sentencing as possible.
ZDNet (www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2289194,00.html)
Mitnick will have flamboyant San Francisco criminal lawyer Tony Serra as
his attorney for the California charges he faces.
SF
Gate
Free Kevin Website
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contributed by Seraphic Artifex
The sole internet provider in India is playing big brother and has
decided to block access to Dawn, Pakastan's oldest and most
respected newspaper.
Times of
India
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contributed by Weld Pond
A Boston Red Sox fan tries to fix the All-Star voting. Writing a perl
script to automate web voting is hardly hacking though.
AP
Boston
Globe
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contributed by Weld Pond
News outlets around the world are writing about Defcon 7 which is only 1
day away!
The
Register
Defcon VII
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contributed by Silicosis
For those with Palm VII's HNN is pleased to announce the hackernews PQA.
With it, you'll be able to keep up with all the headlines through the
PalmVII's built-in wireless networking support. Here's some screenshots
of the splash screen and
headlines.
The hackernews PQA can be downloaded here.
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