contributed by m0nit0r
Following the success of numerous other countries in 'striking' to protest high internet rates a group in the United Kingdom called 'Cyberstrike' is planning just such an event for this weekend December 13th. They are calling for the implementation of fre e local telephone calls, a free and open marketplace, and recognition from the government. Cyberstrike is requesting that all internet users refuse to log-on for for a 24 hour period on the day of December 13th.

Cyberstrike
Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications
British Telecom

contributed by Thejian
Today the network-security department of the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands banned "I seek you" (ICQ) from their systems. According to the University's security experts the program has got a few "backdoors" which allows other users to send programs to and execute programs at a remote computer. They used the comparison with a telnet open account. The TU Delft points the finger back Mirabilis (which was recently bought by AOL) and says the leaks have to be fixed before it's allowed again on their server. Meanwhile Mirabilis is working on yet another version of their popular message-/chat-program, will this one really be foolproof?

Technical University of Delft - In Dutch
Mirabilis

contributed by Weld Pond
Weld Pond writes, "this fukin roxs" Errors, lies, and charlatans in the computer security industry. All our buddies are here from NCSA to Ira Winkler to Se7en. Definitely an eyebrow raising site to anyone who is even remotely connected to the com puter security industry.

InfoSec Errata

contributed by Space Rogue
In a prime example of how slow the mainstream media can be Wired has finally released a story on something that HNN reported on last week. Palm Pilots can be programmed to transmit the infrared signal of some car door locks. And again the article attempts to blame 3Com instead of the car manufacturers. So if someone picks a lock with a paper clip we should blame the maker of the paper clips? How about blaming those who made the easily pickable locks?

Wired

Late Update! 135408DEC98EST
contributed by Weld Pond
A giant leap backwards has occurred as the United States leads the totalitarian charge against strong encryption on a global level. 33 countries have agreed in principal to the Waasenaar Arrangement that will severely limit the export of strong cryptography. John Gilmore has issued a Call to Arms and is requesting the mirroring of crypto archives world wide. The time to act is now, before this agreement can be set into law. He has called for mirrors of strong cryptography to be set up behind each legal Berlin Wall that is erected to ensure that cryptography can remain available to everyone.

John Gilmore's original Call To Arms
Cryptome - Current listing of world wide mirror sites already set up
The Wassenaar Arrangement

"Freedom detects oppression as damage and routes around it." - Weld Pond