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contributed by Anonymous
Last night MTV aired its overly promoted special True Life: I'm a
Hacker. MTV was given wide access to numerous underground
organizations and individuals and was given the perfect opportunity to
accurately portray what hacking is all about it. Instead they focus on
arrests, drug use, political correctness, and generally display a very
distorted view of what really happens in the computer underground.
HNN received numerous comments in regards to the show. Some of the more
eloquent ones we have posted here.
Comments From HNN Readers
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contributed by Sarge
The Black Hat briefings, originally scheduled to take place in Amsterdam
later this month have been postponed until next year. The Black Hat
Briefings security conference specializes in bringing together key
figures from the underground with top notch security professionals. The
BHB scheduled for April 3rd and 4th in Singapore is still on schedule.
The Black Hat Briefings
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contributed by pho
pho, who runs sik.kuntz.org, a HNN
Affiliate, recently published an article regarding FREEOnline, an
Australian based ISP. The ISP offered free internet access in exchange
for personal information, however pho found that their sign up account in
fact allowed for unlimited internet access via tunneling.
2600 Australia
C|Net
Australia
Free Online
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contributed by Weld Pond
Customers of Global Internet Access, a South African based ISP, have been
the victims of an email scam. The email claimed that the databases of GIA
had been lost and to please resubmit their logon information. It is
unknown how many customers provided their information.
Africa
News
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contributed by no0ne
The plan to implement global wiretapping, which includes e-mail and
internet monitoring, has been put on hold temporarily by the European
Council of Member States. The reason for the hold is so that a complete
rewrite of the plan for European interception of Internet traffic can be
done. This eavesdropping network is better known as Enfopol.
The UK
Register
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contributed by Weld Pond
On October 19 and 20th the Ministers of the Interior and Justice from
various G-8 states will meet in Moscow. There will discuss new ways in
which they can work together to thwart high-tech crime. They hope to be
able to adapt the rules for the storage of log data at ISPs and
telecommunications companies that will apply internationally, in order to
make a quick transnational pursuit of a cyber attacker possible.
Spiegel
Online - German
Spiegel Online - English
Translation via Cryptome
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contributed by no0ne
A bill which would have required employers in California to inform their
employees that their e-mails would be monitored was vetoed by Governor
Gray Davis. Davis compared e-mail monitoring to other employer rights,
one being the right to limit personal long-distance calls.
San
Francisco Gate
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contributed by nvirb
Once infected with this new virus/worm anyone listed in your address book
gets an email urging them to look at a porn site. While the Visual Basic
Based script does not contain any malicious payload it can cause a high
level of embarrassment as your close personal friends and business
associates are directed to XXX sites.
PC
World
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contributed by Weld Pond
Looks like someone had finnally realized the privacy implications of
IPv6, which is being proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force. The
plan is to create an IP address that includes part of your ethernet card
address. This would make it extremely easy to trace each and every packet
back to the machine it came from.
Associated
Press - via ABC
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