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Mark Rasch: The Subpoenas are Coming!:

The demand that journalists preserve their notes is being made under laws that require ISP’s and other “providers of electronic communications services” to preserve, for example, e-mails stored on their service, pending a subpoena, under a statute modified by the USA-PATRIOT Act.

The purpose of that law was to prevent the inadvertent destruction of ephemeral electronic records pending a subpoena. For example, you could tell an ISP that you were investigating a hacking case, and that they should preserve the audit logs while you ran to the local magistrate for a subpoena.

It was never intended to apply to journalist’s records.

What a headline. As Dave Barry would say, “I am not making this up”: The Register: KaZaA sues RIAA for copyright infringement « … Sharman says the RIAA has distributed versions of KaZaA Lite with warning messages to potential infringers, which it deems “monopolistic and conspiratorial” behavior. In July a Judge nixed an attempt by Sharman Networks to stop the distribution of RIAA-flavored KaZaA software using Antitrust legislation. That failed, but this time it’s trying again… »

Eric Rescorla points out: Peter Gutmann’s dissection of Linux VPN tools CIPE, vtun, and tinc

Geer, Bace, Gutmann, Metzger, Pfleeger, Quarterman, Schneier: CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly (PDF)
[via CCIA (Computer & Communications Industry Association, advocating “open markets, open systems, open networks, and full, fair, and open competition”)]
Note: Author Dan Geer got fired by @Stake for publishing this report.

• Dennis Kennedy: Suggesting a Careful Reading Of the Creative Commons Licenses Before You Adopt One
• Dan Bricklin: An issue people may not be aware of with the Creative Commons licenses
• Glenn Otis Brown: On Warranties

ICANN/Verisign .com Registry Agreement

OK, everybody in the world is linking to it, so this isn’t new, but it’s a provocative note: Philip Greenspun’s Weblog: Java is the SUV of programming tools. Make sure you read the comments.

TechDirt: Dartmouth Offering Voice Over WiFi Phones To Students

Spammers use Ottawa hotels to send e-mail:

A handful of hotels in the Ottawa area have unwittingly become the instruments of e-mail spammers, who use the hotels’ high-speed Internet access services to send unsolicited electronic mail touting products and services.

[via Techdirt]

Dann Sheridan’s Weblog:

I don’t think most people understand the implications of running wireless networks. While sitting here in Starbucks, I have access to the shares on the CVS pharmacy file server next door containing their POS system, prescription system, and a database server containing who knows what. I also have access to ten workstation on the network who are sharing the c-drives. I probably even have access back into their corporate network… This is a perfect example of how, as things are becoming more open, individuals can keep up and protect themselves while organizations languish in the wake.