contributed by Space Rogue
There seems to be a lot of confusion around this new plan, proposal, draft or whatever it is regarding FidNet. This new Federal Intrusion Detection Network is designed to protect the nation's infrastructure from cyber attack. HNN has only been able to find parts of the document and have not read all 170 pages of it but from what we have found this network would actually be run by the GSA and not the FBI, it would only monitor government owned systems, and there is a provision for privacy concerns. This document is not finalized nor has it been officially released, until then this plan needs to be closely watched. (At least the government is doing something other than executing stupid search warrants.)

Center For Democracy & Technology - Contains Transcripts of Parts of the Report
ZD Net
MSNBC

contributed by St0n3r
First it was bomb making information; now it is drug making information. The dominoes are falling. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is sponsoring a large anti-methamphetamine bill, one section of which may ban this type of information from the Internet.

Nando Times

Better grab the information now while you still can.
Textfiles.com - via Attrition.org
Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture; Including Recipes for Mda, Ecstacy, and Other Psychedelic Amphetamines - Via Amazon.com
The Construction and Operation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories - via Amazon.com

contributed by Agent X
Agent X finally recovered from his drunken sleepless nights at Defcon VII and was able to write about his experiences 'at con'. Couldn't make it to Las Vegas? Then check out his review in the Buffer Overflow section.

Buffer Overflow

contributed by Arik
Janet Reno, Attorney General for the United States, has called for an outright ban on the distribution of cryptography on the internet. She made statements to this effect in a letter she sent last May to German Federal Secretary of Justice Herta Daeubler-Gmelin. The attorney general's comments take her recent congressional testimony against the Security and Freedom through Encryption (SAFE) Act, H.R. 850, one step farther.

Telepolis- German
Newsbytes
JYA.com

contributed by TurTleX and tacscan
In an open field next to a lake near Altlandsberg, outside Berlin, Germany several thousand people are expected to gather under tents with their computers. The Chaos Computer Club Camp will be taking place next weekend. Along with things like a 34MBit Internet link, discussions on cryptography and the Linux Death Match one of the scheduled events may be underwater lock picking.

Industry Standard
Computer World
HNN Cons Page