http://corqspy.org this monkey, this typewriter. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:44:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Starting Thursday morning, the U.S. government is seeking comment on who should create and vouch for the internet's most crucial document -- the root zone file -- that serves as the cornerstone of the system that lets users get to websites and emails find their way to inboxes. The non-profit ICANN, ... http://corqspy.org/?p=653 *sniff* - Opus was my favorite idealist, an optimist despite all odds. Happy Herring-chasing, Opus... This just in: The bowtie-wearing, tuba-playing, onetime vice presidential candidate on the National Radical Meadow Party ticket is headed for that great comic strip in the sky; cartoonist Berkeley Breathed announced today that he is giving ... http://corqspy.org/?p=651 The Homeland Security Department has declared its right to seize laptops at the U.S. border indefinitely, but legislation introduced Thursday is intended to curb that power. U.S. Sens. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), and Rep. Adam Smith, (D-Wash.), introduced the Travelers Privacy Protection Act in response to the DHS policy ... http://corqspy.org/?p=648 Alerted via twitter (thx @ccg!) I had the yen to read Sunday morning comics "online" this morning. Sinfest: The Webcomic To End all Webcomics. I'm working back through the archives now, good stuff...happy Sunday morning, all. http://corqspy.org/?p=646 Hmmm...Windows Update  "...has been used to patch third-party products" - I've only used WSUS to push custom policices and configs, and yet this still sounds so ominous on the consumer-side of things. Turns out to be a malicious Activex control under the hood of Yahoo Music player...but the idea of ... http://corqspy.org/?p=644 Quantum cryptography is supposed to be unbreakable. But a flaw in a common type of equipment used makes it possible to intercept messages without detection. Quantum cryptography has been used by some banks to protect data, and even to hide election results in Switzerland last year. But it has been discovered ... http://corqspy.org/?p=642 The Los Alamos National Laboratory suffers from cybersecurity weaknesses that affect how it protects information on its sensitive but unclassified network, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. That network includes sensitive data such as controlled nuclear information, export control information, and personally identifiable information about employees of ... http://corqspy.org/?p=640 Wow. I think his work was so wonderful, and so prolific, that somehow, there would always be Paul Newman. I have an endless lists of favorite movies, but I love his more obscure stuff. Yet,  the well-known 'Cool Hand Luke' does leap to mind as an inspiration, a character who persisted ... http://corqspy.org/?p=636 A federal judge on Wednesday set aside the nation's first and only federal jury verdict against a peer-to-peer file sharer for distributing copyrighted music on a peer-to-peer network without the labels' authorization. U.S. District Judge Michael Davis of Duluth, Minnesota, declared a mistrial in the case of Jammie Thomas, a Minnesota ... http://corqspy.org/?p=634 The lifeline linking notorious service provider Intercage to the rest of the Internet has been severed. Intercage, which has also done business under the name Atrivo, was knocked offline late Saturday night when the last upstream provider connecting it to the Internet's backbone, Pacific Internet Exchange, terminated Intercage's service. Intercage president Emil ... http://corqspy.org/?p=625