News: SCADA system makers pushed toward security:
SCADA system makers pushed toward security
Browsing Posts published on August 2, 2006
News: ActiveX security faces storm before calm:
ActiveX security faces storm before calm
Breaking into a laptop via Wi-Fi:
Flaws in software that runs wireless-networking hardware could let attackers take over PCs, including Macs, researchers at Black Hat warn.
A Five Minute Guide to Opposing DRM:
I’ve been covering the Free Software Foundation's Defective By Designcampaign against Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies since its planning stages. Starting from scratch, in less than three months, the campaign has grown to 7000 members. This number is impressive, especially since the campaign introduces a degree of activism previously unknown in the free and open source software communities. What strikes me, though, is that, for all the loathing of DRM, how rarely the reasons for opposing it are spelled out. In some cases, the reason may be that people consider them too obvious to be worth mentioning, but, too often when I've probed, people haven't even heard of the possible objections. These objections begin with the fact that the case for DRM has yet to be made, and continues with arguments about consumer rights, privacy, competitiveness, and industry standards.
