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> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:42:26 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> RIAA Cannot Spy on Our Students Says Oregon Attorney General
>>
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>> | An RIAA spokesperson responded with indignation, accusing the University
>> | of protecting a wave of piracy. The Association now says that student
>> | pirates need to be stopped for their own good, lest they accidentally put
>> | files like their bank records and tax info into the folders they share on
>> | P2P services.
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> Maybe its time we all shared expired copyright material on P2P. Let's
> start with the King James Version of the Bible. We can also all share a
> really great movie called "Charade" (it's on archive.org) and Plan 9 from
> Outer Space. We should also all share the Ubuntu install CD.
>
> P2P has legitimate uses. And all one has to do is limit their upload to
> something like 128kbps so it doesn't kill their ISP's network yet it'll
> put P2P in its proper place.
The MPAA/RIAA take the same approach the Americans took against Japan... and
also intend to use against Windows zombies.
U.S. cyber counterattack: Bomb 'em one way or the other
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| If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed
| at undermining the natio's critical information infrastructure,
| the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of
| the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual
| bombing of an attack source.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020807-rsa-cyber-attacks.html
Context and reason:
In zombies we trust
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| A little over a year ago, I wrote an editorial where in back-of-the-envelope
| style (.pdf) I estimated that perhaps 15-30% of all privately owned computers
| were no longer under the sole control of their owner. In the intervening
| months, I received a certain amount of hate mail but in those intervening
| months Vint Cert guessed 20-40%, Microsoft said 2/3rds, and IDC suggested
| 3/4ths. It is thus a conservative risk position to assume that any random
| counterparty stands a fair chance of being already compromised.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=661
Over 50% of corporate desktops infected with malware: IronPort
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| The report also reveals that more than 50% of corporate desktops
| worldwide are infected with some type of spyware with the rate of
| infection as high as 70% in the United States. Trojans or malicious
| system monitors represented over 7% of the infections. Rootkits and
| trick loaders, which reinstall spyware and other obfuscation techniques,
| make remediation very difficult thus prevention is the key to stopping
| these threats.
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http://www.crn-india.com/breakingnews/stories/66870.html
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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