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Stories · 4
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A Port in the Storm for PSINet Customers?
EdA asks: "My wife's small non-technology company uses PSINet, who are going belly up. Where is a safe haven? They don't have much in the way of requirements: domain hosting; a small (static) site; about 20 mailboxes and unlimited dial-up. How can I check the health of potential ISP's, last summer we were investigating moving her company to DSL and now everyone we talked with is out of business already! Here's an interesting tidbit: PSInet's website is now inaccessible..." -
No Cyber-Warrant Required?
stitzman writes: "Senator Jon Kyl, R-AZ and Senator Charles Schumer, D-NY have co-sponsored a bill that would make it possible to investigate cyber-crime without all those pesky search warrants. Here's the San Francisco Chronicle story." Frightening quote: "law enforcers would no longer need to obtain a search warrant in every jurisdiction through which a cyber-attack traveled." And in a vaguely related story, jkujawa passes along this ComputerUser article in which the National Infrastructure Protection Center frets about (but offers no answers to) the ease of launching anonymous electronic attacks. -
Red Hat Takes Heat Over Certification
EdA wrote in to tell us about this piece, where Red Hat takes heat for its certification process. From the article - "I'm no more of a fan of Microsoft than the next person, but I can say that the support we get from Microsoft is superior, and less expensive," Daher said. "Microsoft always comes to our door, they bring demo units, keep us in touch with their engineers, and certification for our people costs only $2000 each, on-site. Red Hat wants $5,000 a person and we have to fly our people to Durham, [N.C.]." -
Passing of a True Hacker
Felix Gallo writes "Dan Hildebrand, one of the very clever hackers behind QNX, a nifty distributed-network unix- like operating system, and an all around positive force for good in this world, has passed away after unsuccessfully fighting cancer. As Dan was a true real-time operating system hacker, I ask Slashdot readers for a hard, deterministic 10 ms of silence in Dan's honor. I bet he'd appreciate that. Thanks for advancing the art, Dan. The good fight will continue. "