Empty cans of Pringles crisps could be helping malicious hackers spot wireless networks that are open to attack.

KaZaA's legal representation in DC has sent a strongly worded letter to Joseph Biden, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who released a report titled "Theft of American Intellectual Property: Fighting Crime Abroad and at Home" on February 12. Biden's report was not tame by any means -- by my count there are 48 mentions of theft and 99 mentions of piracy in the 52 page document -- and neither is the letter sent by KaZaA's representative.

IBM is pursuing 'grid computing' instead of the peer-to-peer computing everyone else is doing.. of course, they seem to include web services and an Internet OS in that category... a good read.

Jack Valenti's response to an editorial from Lawrence Lessig (claiming that broadband hasn't taken off in the U.S. is because of Hollywood's lack of support for the technology) has plenty of holes in it.

My theory about .com influenced financial mismanagement

This weekend's CodeCon 2002 is the premier event for developers of P2P, cypherpunk and network/security applications, as well as real-world applications that support individual liberties.

DieCorp has come out with a product dubbed "Musit" that will apparently download music for free from a satellite.

EFF won't appeal a recent loss in the case brought by Professor Edward Felten against the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. The government promised in court documents that "scientists attempting to study access control technologies" are not subject to the DMCA. Felten and EFF decided to take them at their word.

Recently, he's looked at the process from the point of view of the disrupters themselves. He has come up with a series of tests to help entrepreneurs judge whether their ideas are likely to succeed in the marketplace.

The complexity of managing online identities may be the biggest boon to Passport