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The Happy Hacker ain't so happy
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contributed by Ex Machina
Carolyn Meinel, self proclaimed security expert, is now being considered
a suspect in the Hacking For Girlies, New York Times crack, or at least
so she says. The FBI has no comment and will not confirm nor deny the
allegations that they are harassing her. Supposedly Carolyn Meinel was
contacted by the FBI and asked to take a lie detector test regarding the
New York Times incident. While Carolyn Meinel's name was mentioned in the
code of the HFG page that was posted to the NYT web site so where several
other people and groups. I know that several of those people and groups
have not been contacted by the FBI at all in regards to this case.
Wired
Happy Hacker
Late Update
Evidently the timing of Carolyn Meinel's press conference yesterday was
not an accident. Rumor on the net is that Disorder has been questioned in
connection with the HFG, NYT crack. This rumor is substantiated by
friends of his who say they where questioned by the FBI in relation to
Disorders involvement. Disorder has been unreachable for the last few days
and his web site has been off line since Tuesday.
We recieved another email that stated the FBI was at Dimensional
Communications LLC without a warrant asking to snoop around in the files
of sekurity.org and the personal files of a user named 'jericho'.
Evidently the FBI has not made any arrests yet in connection to this case.
We have no confirmation of the above information. If anyone has anything
to ad please lets us know.
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contributed by Space Rogue
The Child Online Protections Act (CDA II) is still in court, and still
being fought by 17 plaintiffs, including the ACLU and the EFF, seeking to
prevent its enforcement. The next hearing is scheduled for January 20 and
21st.
CNN
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contributed by Space Rogue
Carl Malamud, pioneer of radio internet broadcasting, is pushing to give
hackers a tax break. His proposal is to let anyone who writes open source
software be able to deduct expenses from their income.
Wired
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Cracking Secrets revealed
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contributed by Space Rogue
Seminars will be held for network security specialists by International
Network Security K.K. to show them the latest cracking techniques. These
seminars will include practical applications of penetration testing to
broaden the attendees skills.
AsiaBizTech
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Piracy Tool or backup protection?
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contributed by Weld Pond
A Connecticut judge has forced ImagineThat from distributing its
software. ImagineThat sells RivalLock and IceLock two software titles
used to unlock a $13,000 CAD program 'Mastercam' made by CNC software.
RivalLock and IceLock have been specifically marketed towards CNC
customers as a way to defeat the dongle required to utilize the program.
CNC
ImagineThat
C|Net
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Pilot RedBox still in the news
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contributed by Space Rogue
Yet another example of the mainstream media picking up a story long after
it has occurred. This time it is the Boston Globe who is running a story
on the smallest combination locks ever. These locks have the potential to
become the smallest firewall ever.
The Boston Globe
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contributed by Fluxx
We received a message from 'root@knownet.cpbi.org' claiming that
www.cpbi.org had been cracked wide open. Sure enough when we looked the
site had a big "Fluxx Ownz You" graphic in the middle of it. The
cracked page and graphics where very similar to those posted to
www.jackdaniels.com earlier this week.
CPBI
HNN Archive of www.jackdaniels.com
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