Waiting for the [SPAM] storm
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| Have you also experienced an ever-growing number of those ‘greeting card’
| messages and emails?
|
| [...]
|
| An estimated number of 1.7 million computers got infected that way by what is
| known as the ‘Storm Worm‘. And these machines are waiting for instructions
| from their masters, which is what nice robots should do.
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http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=354
Antivirus hailed as greatest IT thing ever
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| We learn today that McAfee's Virusscan is officially one of the most
| influential technology products of the last 25 years.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41569
This comes from CompTIA, a filthy anti-Linux lobbying arm of Microsoft (with
track record).
Recent:
CompTIA [Microsoft LOBBYISY]: IE voted 'most influential' tech product
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| Microsoft and CompTIA have traditionally been closely aligned, particularly
| in the fight against open-source software--both are key members of the
| Initiative for Software Choice, which frequently takes an anti-open-source
| stance. Earlier this year,
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6199876.html
Related:
[Anti-RMS Microsoft Shill:] Software of Choice
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| GCN recently covered online a lecture by software developer Richard
| Stallman, a vocal advocate of the free-software movement and a critic
| of restrictive commercial-software licensing (see this issue's GCN
| Insider, Page 31).
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http://www.gcn.com/print/26_11/44301-1.html
Clearing up anti-GPL3 FUD
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| Some of the bad publicity about GPL3 is deliberate. A particularly
| bad article by Dan Lyons of Forbes magazine painted an offensive
| picture of GPL3 and Richard Stallman, even accusing Stallman of
| having sex with flowers (!!!) after Lyons failed to comprehend
| a scientific joke.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/3/22/16651/
Perens Lashes Out at Claims GPL 3 Brings Legal Risks
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| "Let's make it clear that [ACT] is Microsoft's lobbying front and
| that they are going to paint as negative a picture as they can,"
| Perens told eWEEK in an interview.
|
| "Obviously, GPL software is displacing Microsoft enough to have
| them concerned, and it's doing it at customers who are important
| to them. A lawyer's job is to scare the other side if they can--because
| they know it's cheaper than winning a case in court," he said.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2112267,00.asp
Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers
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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
|
| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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