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I have to admit, I'm a little overtaken by the success of facebook.  It almost seems like yesterday when I retired my ICQ account, jumped on the MSN bandwagon, and saw the future unfold.  I blink a couple times and I'm having to get a gmail account and myspace was cool.  BAM, facebook time.  read more »

Slashdot and ZDnet are reporting the existence of the first ever Mac-only botnet.  Botnets, normally associated with Windows, are large collections of computers that have been infected with malware and are now under the control of an evil-doer.  They are often used to attack websites by flooding them from sometimes hundreds of thousands of infected computers.  Another popular use of botnets is sending spam.

That's right, Spam.

Soon spam will be coming from Macs too.  The hipsters with their shiny MacBooks are no longer immune to zombification.  Not much surprise there, but clearly it's time to stop pretending that Macs are somehow too secure to not require anti-virus and anti-spyware software.

The source of the infection appears to be copies of iWork and Adobe CS4 downloaded from peer to peer networks.

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The blogs are all about Lawrence Lessig's comment about a i-9/11 made during the 2018: Life on the Net panel discussion at this year's Fortune Brainstorm. Lawrence Lessig, founder of the Creative Commons, who has a knack for often making bold yet entirely rational statements, asserted that an online security threat, similar in magnitude to the devestation of the World Trade Center, will happen sometime in the future. If such an event occurs, a new crackdown legal-framework, similar to the Patriot Act, will be put into place. Talking to a governmental official, Lessig says that such an emergency policy has already been drawn up.  read more »

I personally switched from Rogers communication cable services to Bell Sympatico services, due to traffic shaping policies held by the former. In recent news however, it appears that Sympatico service subscribers, are on the cusp of suffering the same fate.  read more »

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