Source: ZDNET
Kevin Finisterre admits that he likes to hew close to the ethical line separating the "white hat" hackers from the bad guys, but little did he know that his company's actions would draw threats of a lawsuit from Hewlett-Packard.
Source: BAY AREA
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Justice Department is investigating discrimination claims against Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, the restaurant company's parent said Thursday.
Cracker Barrel's parent company, CBRL Group, said it is responding to questions posed by the Justice Department under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The plaintiffs' attorney David Sanford said the class-action federal lawsuit, which seeks $100 million, prompted the Justice Department probe.
"At issue is a service whose very raison d'etre appears to be the facilitation of and contribution to copyright infringement on a massive scale," said Chief Judge Marvin Aspen who ruled that the file trade program Madster must halt song swaping.
Source: CNet News
A federal grand jury has indicted the founder of the StopAmerica.org Web site on charges of aiding al-Qaida terrorists.
Prosecutors say Earnest James Ujaama, 36, who was born James Earnest Thompson, conspired to create an al-Qaida boot camp in rural Oregon. Ujaama also helped al-Qaida with computer training and Internet propaganda, according to the 9-page indictment released late Wednesday.
Source: Vnunet
A date has been set for the trial of Jon Johansen, the Norwegian hacker who created the controversial DVD descrambling tool DeCSS.
The trial will start at a Norwegian district court on 9 December and will be headed up by one judge with the help of two lay assessors.
Johansen was indicted in January, more than two years after the Motion Picture Industry Association of America (MPIAA) filed for a criminal investigation over the creation of DeCSS.
Source: Security Focus
A 14-year veteran of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration plead guilty Monday to selling sensitive data from federal law enforcement computers to a Los Angeles private investigations firm working for the insurance industry.
In recent months some of the wealthiest older Americans have been buying huge life insurance policies on themselves. Curiously, these people have shopped not for the cheapest rates but for the highest rates they can find. In some cases, they delightedly pay 10 times the lowest rates for that insurance. Why would anyone willingly pay so much?
Source: The Register
Sony has failed persuade an Australian Federal Court that using modification chips necessarily violates copyright laws.
Honourable Justice Ronald Sackville ruled that Sony had failed to establish that mod chips constituted a "technological protection measure" that protected the copyright of its games software. If mod chips don't protect copyright then selling them does not violate copyright laws, he reasoned.
