A cure for Slammer, Code Red, Nimda ….
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2003Behind the flap over DARPA’s defunding of the OpenBSD project, there’s a bigger story being lost: These guys fixed a gaping hole in computer security, one that’s been exploited repeatedly to cause billions of dollars in damage over the past 15 years. I have an article about this coming out tomorrow.
Now if someone can only come up with a fix to keep people from opening email viruses.
Madonna hacked back
To be honest, I got a kick out of Madonna’s fake MP3s from her new album (they’re just a loop of her asking “What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” for P2P file sharers), but the obvious response was just as good….
Lou Reed, George Orwell, and Vaclav Havel
Matt Welch’s take on Vaclav Havel, Velvet President, is a must for anyone whose reading list stopped at 1984 … or didn’t.
