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Section 2B of the Universal Commercial Code will exempt software vendors from liabilty if thier products toast your machine.  Why does software get a special exemption? How are we going to get good software if we can't threaten to sue if they screw up?
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650 hackers gave it thier best shot and failed. JAWS L5 encryption stood up to the test.
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About a month late but yet another new story about DefCon has surfaced. The author of this one nbeeds to get a clue. Speaking as somone who was there it was nothing like this guy depicts.
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Toto: Busted.

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Toto/Truthmonger, the nemises of the cypherpunks mailing list has been busted. Identified
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The FBI is pushing its Law Enforncement Online (LEO) system, an internetwork of computer crime databases. Supposedly as user friendly as AOL. Great, more dumb cops.
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War on the net?

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Mexican Rebals launch attack via the Net.
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Cybercop School?

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A school for cybercops. I wonder if you can get admitted even if your not a member of law enforcement? And if you did would you actually learn anything?
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MTV fakes its own hack? Or was it a coincidance?  Either way they got thier
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Phrack is owned?

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Phrack, the oldest underground hacker Zine, admits to being owned.
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TriStrata, a small upstart company claims to have a major breakthrough in security technology. Wonder why they won't let anyone look at it?<br>

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Even while campaigning an an 'ethics' platform Austrailian electoral canidates resort to hacking each others web sites.
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