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Whatever Happened to Carnivore?Mon Apr 1, 2:45 PM ETJay Lyman, www.NewsFactor.com Its name may have changed from Carnivore to DCS-1000, but the controversial cybersnooping software used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation is still on the hunt for information, and likely is scouring vast amounts of Internet communication. • Terrorists Take To the Web To Regroup • Government Internet Snooping: Out of Control? • Is Your Internet Service Provider Spying on You? In fact, Carnivore probably is chomping on more data than ever as a result of the September 11th terrorist attacks in the United States. Following those events, it...

Judge: FBI must cough up Carnivore info By Gwendolyn Mariano Special to ZDNet News March 27, 2002, 4:45 PM PT Privacy advocates have won another round in their fight to gain access to more information about the FBI's Carnivore e-mail surveillance system. A federal judge this week ordered the FBI to expand its search for records about Carnivore, also known as DCS1000, technology that is installed at Internet service providers to monitor e-mail from criminal suspects. The court denied a motion for summary judgment and ordered the FBI to produce within 60 days "a further search" of its records pertaining...

Read the bill Links to news articles Sign our petition Contact your representatives Tell a friend about this site Put a banner on your site Contact us Rip. Mix. Burn. Jail. (Flash) WHAT IS THE CBDTPA? The CBDTPA is a bill, pushed by the entertainment industry, proposed in Congress by Senators Fritz Hollings (D-SC) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), along with Senators Daniel Inouye (D-HI), John Breaux (D-LA), Bill Nelson (D-FL), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). The acronym stands for "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act". Note that the CBDTPA was originally known as the "SSSCA" while in draft form....

A well known fact about American medical privacy to those that work in the industry is that protective barriers to such privacy are easy to overcome. A little known related fact is that the transciption of American medical records are shipped offshore and in this report, that offshore country is India. For years now, it has been known that a local network of medical clinics tied to a community based hospital serving a community of more than one hundred thousand people, has been in the red (very red). The medical network's continued subsidization by their associated hospital has been justified...

<p>WASHINGTON -- America's programmers, engineers and sundry bit-heads have not yet figured out how much a new copyright bill will affect their livelihood.</p> <p>When they do, watch for an angry Million Geek March to storm Capitol Hill.</p> <p>A bill introduced this week by Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina) would roil the electronics industry by forcibly embedding copy protection into all digital devices, from MP3 players to cell phones, fax machines, digital cameras and personal computers.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON -- Sen. Fritz Hollings has fired the first shot in the next legal battle over Internet piracy.</p> <p>The Democratic senator from South Carolina finally has introduced his copy protection legislation, ending over six months of anticipation and sharpening what has become a heated debate between Hollywood and Silicon Valley.</p>

<p>I didn't bother to put it up here because it's a wired article and the formatting would take forever. Sorry to crosspost like that, but his is a real POS piece of legislation that everyone here needs to know about. It is quite possibly the single biggest case of government oversight of the IT industries ever in the history of the USA.</p>

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Ruling will make tracking down defendants easier The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday became the first appellate court in the nation to allow attorneys to serve legal documents via e-mail. The ruling in Rio Properties vs. Rio International Interlink hands a victory to the off-Strip Rio hotel in its battle with a Costa Rica-based online sports book. Attorneys for the Rio hotel had claimed the Costa Rican company infringed on the hotel's trademark by operating gambling Web sites at www.riosports.com and www.betrio.com. But it also gives lawyers across...

StreamCast Networks, distributor of the popular Morpheus software, is quietly counting the number of times its file swappers visit high-profile shopping sites. The company on Tuesday said it has begun installing a Web browser add-on that sends some Morpheus users on an invisible Web detour aimed at capturing data about file swappers' surfing habits. Thus, when a file swapper visits a site such as Radioshack.com, eBay.com or a handful of others, their computer visits a separate site behind the scenes before loading the final destination site. Those separate servers, run by marketing companies including Be Free, count how many times...

Silicon Graphics (SGI) machines running the Apache Web server on SGI's IRIX operating system are vulnerable to attack by hackers, who may be able to gain administrator-level access, the company has warned. The company makes machines used for everything from scientific research to movie special effects, and many are used by government and defense organizations. The two new flaws, originally announced on Friday, affect IRIX versions 6.5.12, 6.5.13 and 6.5.14 running Apache versions prior to 1.3.22. IRIX is SGI's proprietary version of the Unix operating system, while Apache is a widely used open-source Web server, which is installed and enabled...

DAVID HO, Associated Press WriterTuesday, March 19, 2002 ©2002 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/03/19/financial1851EST0366.DTL (03-19) 15:51 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA got caught with a hand in the Internet cookie jar. The agency removed tracking software known as a "cookie" from one of its Web sites this week after a private group discovered the banned practice, said Mike Stepp, who manages the CIA's public Web site. "It was a mistake on our part. It was not intentional," Stepp said Tuesday. "The public does not need to be concerned that the CIA is tracking them. We're a bit busy to be...

The New FBIWASHINGTON, March 14, 2002 Fifteen minutes after British Airways Flight 229 left London's Heathrow Airport Wednesday and eight hours before it arrived in Baltimore, the FBI already knew the name, passport number, place of birth and 20 other tidbits of information about every man, woman and child aboard. Even how long many planned to stay in the United States and where. Before Sept. 11, that was rarely the case, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart. Before Sept. 11, the FBI focused almost exclusively on investigating crimes and terrorist incidents that had already occurred. Now the bureau's focus is...

Microsoft's borrowed code may pose risk By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com March 14, 2002, 12:05 PM PT A security flaw in open-source software used by Linux and Unix systems for compression may affect some Microsoft products that also use the code. As reported earlier this week by CNET News.com, a flaw in the zlib software-compression library could leave much of the systems based on the open-source operating system Linux open to attack. On Thursday, the researchers who discovered the flaw reported that at least nine of Microsoft's major applications--including Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, DirectX, Messenger and Front Page--appear...

CHICAGO, Mar 12, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- A Wisconsin computer worker, who goes by the online name of quot;Dr. Chaos,quot; Tuesday faced charges he stored more than a pound of powdered cyanide in an underground subway storage room in the heart of the city's downtown Loop. Police found a vial of cyanide on Joseph Konopka when he was arrested with a 15-year-old juvenile at 2:15 a.m. Saturday morning in a steam tunnel under the Education Building at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Konopka, 25, an unemployed computer hacker accused of vandalizing power stations and radio...

ICQ - Are You Seeking Trouble? Hey David, how come you won't use ICQ? It's such a great program! You can chat and tell when your friends log in to the internet and send them files and and and... Well it is time to come clean on this issue. Even some of my close friends think I'm nutso over my position on the ICQ chat program from Mirabilis Ltd. So, okay, I know I'm on the outer fringes of society, given that millions of people seem to have used ICQ at one time or another. A little too security ...

Netscape Navigator Browser Snoops On Web Searches ( Note: the original is full of the following hidden link courtesy of the Washington Post: http://www.newsbytes.com/images/clearpixel.gif) By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 07 Mar 2002, 10:29 AM CST AOL Time Warner's [NTSE:AOL] Netscape unit is snooping on searches performed by users of its latest Navigator browser at Google and other search sites. According to a network traffic analysis performed by Newsbytes, Netscape is capturing Navigator 6 users' search terms, along with their Internet protocol (IP) address, the date Navigator was installed and a unique identification number.

Flickering computer lights could pose threat to privacy New research suggests it may be possible to eavesdrop on computers just by watching the flicker of LED lights. US scientists believe it's possible to correlate the flash of light emitting diodes with the data being processed. They say it could mean many millions of devices are vulnerable. The research is titled Information Leakage from Optical Emanations. It has been co-authored by researchers at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver and Auburn University in Alabama. The work suggests software-controlled LEDs can carry a modulated optical signal that echoes the flow of ...

Drug gangs are making increasing use of the internet and exploiting the lack of cooperation between international law enforcement agencies to improve their operations, a new UN report claims. The report from the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) also draws attention to the problem of smaller scale drug dealers using chatrooms to sell their goods. It highlights the ease with which internet users can find websites which give step-by-step guides on how certain drugs, especially amphetamines, can be manufactured. The report, entitled Globalisation and New Technologies, says that drug traders are discovering ever more sophisticated ways to use the internet. ...

Staying on top of Oracle's holes By Thomas C. Greene, The Register Feb 28 2002 8:51AM PT In light of the fortnight-old SNMP pandemic, it's tempting to forget that the world's most popular database kit remains vulnerable to a host of potential exploits which were published about three weeks ago by NGSSoftware Insight researcher David Litchfield. Because SNMP holes can affect virtually any networked device, admins struggling to secure their systems may well have been distracted from the quite serious vulnerabilities Litchfield discovered. And on top of the SNMP distraction, we note that Oracle has been less than eager to ...

Gil Shwed built the world's biggest seller of security software for corporate paranoiacs. Now he wants to protect you at home and on the road. Four years go virtually unmentioned in the official biography of Israeli billionaire Gil Shwed. This much information can be cobbled together: In 1986 Shwed, just 18 years old, joined the supersecret electronic intelligence arm of the Israeli Defense Forces called Unit 8200. His job most likely was to string together military computer networks in a way that would allow some users access to confidential materials while denying access to others. When he left the ...