Today's news brief
Posted By matt on October 22, 2003
Lots of news today:
Diebold maker of e-voting systems has come under scrutiny for things like miscounts and other “glitches” that affect the output of elections. Some of their internal memos were leaked to the press (it ends up being like 5 years of mailing list archives), and of course, then came the cease and decist messages. But, Swarthmore Students are mirroring it, along with other people. This is important folks; they are up for use in something like 37 states. Here are Slashdot's articles on them. Read.
AT&T is switching to an all-whitelist email setup. (Link) This means that any ISP who doesn't email them and say “hey, this is my mailserver and it's real” and gets approved by AT&T won't be able to send email to people at AT&T email addresses. So, AT&T will be added to the “ISP's are trying to break the internet in the guise of stopping spam, which is arguably a free speech right anyway” email.
Speaking of spam – I get an email (on my Linux box) that says “we've detected your computer is vulnerable – buy Norton Antivirus for Windows”.
SCO sez: I owe them $699 because of some code in the Linux kernel, but they don't want my money now, because I'm not a Fortune 1000 company. They'll get to me later.
And, on the Microsoft front, Windows is more secure than Linux, but old versions of MS Office sucked, so people should upgrade. (Link)
OpenOffice. Yes, it is free. Yes, it makes pdf's. Yes, they have it for Windows.
So, it was just kind of a screwed up day.
I'm sleepy now. Night.
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