] Firewalls, packet filters, intrusion detection systems,
] and the like often have difficulty distinguishing between
] packets that have malicious intent and those that are
] merely unusual. We define a security flag in the IPv4
] header as a means of distinguishing the two cases.

Who knows the evil that lurks in the buffers of men? The Stack knows!

] "Basically, (the bills) outlaw any device they don't
] like," McClure said. "Any technology they don't like is
] banned. Not only is it banned, but it opens you to
] criminal penalties for its use. If you use a computer,
] you could be a criminal. (They don't) require that a
] computer be used for copyright infringement, just that it
] could potentially be used for copyright infringement."

DMCA critics decry state-level proposals | CNET News.com

] Here is one example of the far-reaching harmful effects
] of these bills. Both bills would flatly ban the
] possession, sale, or use of technologies that "conceal
] from a communication service provider ... the existence
] or place of origin or destination of any communication".
] Your ISP is a communication service provider, so anything
] that concealed the origin or destination of any
] communication from your ISP would be illegal -- with no
] exceptions.

Yikes!

Freedom to Tinker: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail

]
] You may think the air of extreme witlessness impossible
] to mimic, but is the man on the podium the authentic
] Dubya, a trained stand-in or an animatronic lookalike?
] Tim Dowling investigates

:P

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Would the real George Bush please stand down

] Microsoft has reduced the number of e-mail messages
] Hotmail users can send each day to 100 in an effort to
] prevent spammers from using the service to send spam.
]
] The cap, put in place earlier this month, only applies to
] users of the company's free Hotmail e-mail service, and
] not to MSN 8 subscribers or those who pay for MSN Extra
] Storage, a Microsoft spokeswoman said Tuesday.

InfoWorld: Microsoft caps Hotmail to prevent spamming: March 25, 2003: By Scarlet Pruitt: Applications

] WASHINGTON, March 24 — In a case balancing national
] security with civil liberties, the Supreme Court refused
] to interfere today with a lower court ruling giving the
] Justice Department broad new powers to use wiretaps to
] prosecute terrorists.
]
] The justices declined without comment to review a
] decision last Nov. 18 in which a special federal appeals
] court found that, under a law passed after the terror
] attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Justice Department can use
] wiretaps installed for intelligence operations to go
] after terrorists.

Bad news...

Supreme Court Refuses to Review Wiretaps Ruling

] Apple Computer Inc., maker of the sleek Macintosh line of
] personal computers, said Wednesday that former U.S. Vice
] President Al Gore had joined the company's board.

The world just keeps getting stranger and stranger...

Gore Joins Apple Computer's Board (TechNews.com)

Nanochick wrote:
] Hey...just out of curiosity, hows your radio show going? Tom
] and I tried to listen in awhile back, but due to basketball or
] something, you didn't go on....
] If you are doing it, will you send me the URL? I would be
] interested in listening in:)
]
] -Marie (Toms sister)

We finally got on 2 weeks ago. http://www.wrct.org

] Several cryptographic vulnerabilities exist in the basic
] Kerberos Version 4 protocol that could allow an attacker
] to impersonate any user in a Kerberos realm and gain any
] privilege authorized through that Kerberos realm.
] Knowledge of the key shared between two realms for
] Kerberos 4 cross-realm authentication or the ability to
] create arbitrary principals in a realm is sufficient to
] print any ticket in the realm.

Maybe this will finally kill krb4 ... AFS has been the big
holdout and its finally starting to get krb5 support though
it only works with MIT krb5 and not heimdal (from kth.se) right
now.

[Full-Disclosure] Vulnerabilities in the Kerberos version 4 protocol

] The Superman star, paralyzed from the neck down after a
] near-fatal horseback-riding accident eight years ago,
] underwent an experimental procedure on February 28 that
] doctors say will allow him to regain the ability to
] breathe on his own.

More neat medical tech.

E! Online News - Christopher Reeve Gets to Breathe