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U.S. AntiSpyware Legislation: Oh-oh

By ray | Published: May 2, 2007
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee approved a bill known as the Internet Spyware Prevention Act which was given the catchy name “I-Spy”. As a CNet News article points out, this has been tried before and hasn’t passed. While outlawing spam seems like a good idea in theory I suspect it will fail in practice. Instead [...]
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Mac Hacked – Both Sides Miss the Point

By ray | Published: April 25, 2007
One of two MacBooks was hacked at the CanWestSec conference is Vancouver, Canada. Both Macbooks were part of the “hack-a-Mac-contest” at the show. A successful hacker got the Macbook. The Macbooks were set up with OS X and all the latest security updates (including 2007-004) but no additional security software or special settings. One of the [...]
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