contributed by laney
In his latest installment to ZDNet, HNN editor Weld Pond addresses the Council of Europe's treaty containing a tool banning proposal. If this becomes law, third party security testing, which has been part of the checks and balances of product security, could be severely restricted. Advocating the necessity of developing preventive security measures through the use of tools in his article, Weld Pond questions the future of security if laws rather then testing determine the standards.

ZDNet

contributed by weld pond
The FBI recently questioned Andres Salomon, a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute undergraduate, in connection with the recent Yankee homepage defacement. Although no charges have been brought, the FBI did confiscate virtually all of Salomon's computer related property. Salomon claims he is innocent of any wrongdoing and gives his full side of the story at the second link below.

ZDNet
Andres Salomon Sounds Off

contributed by abner and laney
A provocative documentation and source code proposol by members of the PaX project may spell the end for buffer overflow attacks on Intel IA-32 chips. The possibility of creating non-executable pages in x86 chips is at the helm of this massive undertaking. No one can be certain this scheme will work without extreme peer review of both the paper and source code.

PaX announcement on SecurityGeeks
PaX documentation and source code
PaX announcement on BugTraq

contributed by iron river
It is believed that Aleksey Yeremin, a Russian mathematician with possible connections to the Russian military and now-defunct KGB, may have had a opportunity to secure a copy of part of or maybe all of Lockheed’s modeling program for designing stealth planes. While it is classified as an "ongoing investigation" at this time, the fall out from a possible breach this enormous places the burden of a swift and successful damage control initiative squarely on the shoulders of the U.S. government.

Seattle P-I.com via MSNBC

contributed by laney
Privacy's relationship to online marketing strategies in the subject of Dan Gillmor's editorial, "Online privacy checkmated by a check box." Gilmor addresses this increasingly important topic by using QSpace as an example of how certain intrusive techniques such as pre-checked boxes requesting additional information on online forms and surveys invade the privacy of online consumers.

The San Jose Mercury News via SiliconValley.com