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Subject: [iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 08/23/02 (fwd)
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August 23, 2002
Seattle lawyer to challenge FBI in Russian hacker sting
In a criminal case in which the borderless Internet
has collided head-on with global law, a Seattle
lawyer is set to charge that U.S. officials
illegally hacked into computers of two Russians
to get evidence to prosecute the pair on computer
crimes. Seattle defense attorney John Lundin told
Reuters that he will use the same argument Russia's
state security service FSB has used -- that the FBI
acted criminally in its attempt to nab his client
Vasiliy Gorshkov -- in an appeal he expects to file
after Gorshkov is sentenced Sept. 13 in federal
court in Seattle.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3925405.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002-08-23-russian-hack_x.htm

Minnow ISP aims counterstrike at RIAA 'legal hackers'
A small US internet service provider has become
the first to introduce a policy of deliberately
hampering the music recording industry's efforts
to hack users of peer-to-peer file-trading
networks, writes Kevin Murphy. Although the
Recording Industry Association of America is
currently believed to be involved in no such
activity, a bill currently before the US House
of Representatives proposes to allow copyright
owners to deliberately tamper with suspected
pirates' files when they believe copyright
infringement is taking place.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26801.html

War college calls a digital Pearl Harbor doable
The Naval War College and consultants from Gartner
Inc. of Stamford, Conn., last month held war games
to see how easy it would be for attackers to disrupt
key segments of the U.S. economy. They concluded
it was doable, given enough time and money. "We
really felt at the end that it would be possible
to bring off a digital terrorist event," said
French Caldwell, a Gartner vice president.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19792-1.html

Fighting Cyberattacks
Survey Suggests Most Companies Take Warnings
Seriously. A combination of government warnings
and a rise in cyberattacks have prompted U.S.
businesses to strengthen their electronic
defenses, a new survey from Southern California's
Consumer Economics suggests. Michael Erbschloe,
the company's vice president of research, says
a variety of factors prompted the 233 companies
who responded to the survey to undertake new
security measures in the last year.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/TechTV/techtv_cyberattacks020823.html

Israeli firm unveils the 'copy-proof' CD
An Israeli security firm has developed a smart-
card based copy protection technology that it
claims can prevent software piracy. The technology,
called OpSecure from start-up firm Doc-Witness,
features a smart card embedded within an optical
disc, which can run on conventional PC CD or DVD
drives. However the embedded smart card, which
is needed to decrypt the disc's content, will
frustrate any attempts to copy the disc.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/26810.html

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