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When technology serves its owners, it is liberating. When it is designed to serve others, over the owner's objection, it is oppressive. There's a battle raging on your computer right now -- one that pits you against worms and viruses, Trojans, spyware, automatic update features and digital rights management technologies. It's the battle to determine who owns your computer.

When Richard Stallman learned that a compiler architect from ATI would be speaking at MIT, he immediately started organizing a protest against ATI's damaging free software policies.

[Hmmm... this at least borders on an overreaction on the assistant's part, especially in light of his promise not to disrupt the speaker. I know of no incident in which RMS has caused a disturbance before. - dcparris]

Another issue of ACM's excellent digest about the risks of using computers in our society.

Just another great example showing that software patents are evil, bad and wrong.

[This is a pretty interesting story. A company sues an individial for infringing patents they filed after his work was already publicly available. Hmmm... - dcparris]

D-Link delivers wifi-routers with badly configured NTP server lists. Despite violating service agreements and effectively DDos'ing these servers, D-Link denies any compensation.

The Risks Digest is an interesting read about the risks of using computers in the world of today.

Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems.

The Big Brother is coming to Germany. You'd better re-read George Orwell's "1984" to make sure you know what's coming.

Two German Video-DVDs use a new copy protection scheme which creates a security risk on Windows machines.

Another issue of cryptography wisdom accumulated by Bruce Schneier.

Sony all over again. This time it's a DVD that cripples your computer.

Don't want your insecure RFID passport exposed? Read this!

"Yesterday's heroes are today's villains -- and vice versa"

[ed: An excellent read on current issues in journalism and politcs.]

I have written a wee comment about that petition, criticising the shortfalls I see.

A good read about various issues related to cryptography, written by the almighty Bruce Schneier.

A very nice piece on the risks of Digital Restrictions Management.

If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman

It's perhaps the most controversial project in the open source world, but this mostly stems from misunderstanding: Mono, the open source development platform based upon Microsoft's .NET framework. Immediate reactions from many dubious Linux developers have ranged from confusion over its connection with .NET to wondering what the benefits of developing under it are.

If you were Sony or Philips and you found that Microsoft had been not just using technology that you invented to invade your markets, but had been giving it away, would you want to sue or negotiate?

“Honey pot” experiment shows unprotected Windows SP 1 at risk