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moonbender writes: "The Assembly 2002 demoscene event is over, and as always spawned a large number of awesome productions. There were several competitions, most notably the 4 kb intro, 64 kb intro and the demo compos. Both the official results as well as the files themselves are available on dedicated mirrors by scene.org. While most of the demos are for the Windows platform, there are some Linux and Java demos, too, and whole compos dedicated to consoles and mobile devices."

freakyboff writes "Found this on cryptome.org - It's a confidential document from Europol, basically a wish list of all data that they would like people to keep. Many things that violate peoples privacy are in the minimum requirements, such as caller line identification and assigned IP for dial-up Internet access; e-mail and ftp server logs; and companies running web servers should keep information on what information users put on their servers." Statewatch is a good source for more information. I find it odd that Europe is moving from a position of protecting a great deal of data with fairly strong laws to requiring that telecommunications companies store data on their customers for as long as seven years so that law enforcement can go data-mining - skipping the intermediate step of making it optional.