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Monday, September 17, 2007
* Another kind of identity theft
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* Will patents crush open source?
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ANOTHER KIND OF IDENTITY THEFT
Best of the blogs: Stupid people are not the only ones who fall prey to
ID thieves. And there's more than one way to have yours lifted, as Nick
Corcodilos found out when a spammer copied his newsletter, added an
obscene line to the 'From' field along with a sex-related ad, then
blasted it out. "Many actually believe I sent it to them, and they're
pretty ticked off," Corcodilos explains in this Ask the headhunter
entry. "I sit here wondering, if billions of dollars worth of commerce
can be transacted over a wire, why don't we have secure e-mail?
Without... ...
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Microsoft loses bid to appeal European antitrust ruling, SCO files
bankruptcy, OLPC raises price, and more LISTEN!... ...
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WILL PATENTS CRUSH OPEN SOURCE?
Best of the blogs: Whereas the GPL v3 has become quite contentious, with
the likes of Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman taking opposing views,
software patents hold more potential to kill open source, Brad Shimmin
maintains. "With companies like IBM winning more than 3,000 patents per
year, you might imagine an 'idea crisis' on the horizon, where our world
begins running low on totally unique, patentable ideas -- that is of
course unless anything can be patented," Shimmin asserts in this Open
Sources post. He adds that the U.S. Patent Office allows virtually any
process, description or vague idea to... ...
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Despite defensive efforts with firewalls, intrusion detection,
antivirus and the like, criminals, careless employees and contractors
have exposed more than 158 million digital records of consumers'
personally identifiable information since 2005. This security guide
describes the requirements and on demand SaaS solution for effective
vulnerability management and policy compliance.
Download now:
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=1988C15:20920CD98AAF82DD19B7BC2ED055C6DFEFF29049075316B4
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