contributed by Ryan
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) has approved the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) which will now be sent on to individual states to pass into law. UCITA will allow vendors to repossess software by disabling it remotely, and to disclaim warranties. It will also prevent the transfer of software licenses and will outlaw reverse engineering. (Which means fewer security holes will be publicized.)

InfoWorld

contributed by tacscan
Web sites of the group Falun Gong a meditation group is claiming that the web sites of its supporters are being target and attacked by China. Initial evidence seems to point to the Public Security Ministry's Internet Monitoring Bureau as the agnecy responsible for various attacks. Falun Gong, outlawed in China, is a group that draws on martial arts, Buddhism and Taoism and is devoted to physical and mental fitness, high moral standards, and denies that it is either a religion or a political movement.

Boston Globe

contributed by Mudge
Sandia National Laboratories sold a surplus nuclear weapons research computer, an old Intel Paragon XPS, as "spare parts", without the OS to a Chinese national in California for $30,000 last October. Quing-Chang Jiang, a citizen of the Peoples Republic of China, then tried to buy the parts from Intel needed to make it run again. After conferring with the DOE, Sandia then paid $88,000 two weeks ago to get it back because of security worries about the deal. The computer, the fastest in the world in 1993, while now obsolete by U.S. standards, could have aided a foreign government in duplicating the advanced work done by US nuclear weapons labs. (Super Computers just aren't that hard to get a hold of these days, even fully functional ones.)

San Jose Mercury News - second story

contributed by Weld Pond
Justin Petersen, who has been convicted of multiple computer crimes and was an informant for Poulsen and Mitnick, now says that since he has been released from prison he will stay on the straight and narrow and will go directly into the cyberporn business.

ZD Net (www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2306588,00.html)

contributed by Code Kid
Kevin Poulsen writes about an interview with Kevin Mitnick and the latest defense motion to unseal court documents that they say proves the government committed misconduct while building its case against him.

ZD Net (www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cybercrime/news/story/0,3700,2306703,00.html)

contributed by Ryan
The official post Defcon 7 page has been placed online. The page has pictures, real audio, video, everything you need to relive the Defcon Experience. Of course this means that they must have finnally gotten all of the drunk people out of the hotel.

Defcon.org- Post DCVII