14. september 2004

Hacked? Blame Brazil Experts on electronic crime are singling out Brazil as the single worst country in the world: Brazil is home to eight out of 10 of the world's hackers, according to federal police at the conference. Within Brazil, the amount of money lost in internet financial fraud outstrips that lost through bank robberies. Roughly two-thirds of the internet's child pornography pages are also said to originate in the country. These statistics are supported by security experts from other countries who say some 96,000 hacking attacks were launched from Brazil last year - six times more than any other country. As clear a membership application for the axis of evil vacancy as you can get! 11:01:07 PM    comment []  trackback []

Google yellow pages Google Local has been upgraded. 8:48:36 PM    comment []  trackback []

Microsoft's anti-spam plan rejected Microsoft's insistence that it retains ownership and patents is threatening to derail the Sender ID proposal, one of the key tools to eradicate spam. Many, especially in the open source community, are now rejecting the proposal. Just what we need. Religious wars getting in the way of anti-spam proposals we desperately need to implement. 6:19:59 PM    comment []  trackback []

Pressure builds on the CBS The WaPo is also smelling big journalist blood. The lead expert retained by CBS News to examine disputed memos from President Bush's former squadron commander in the National Guard said yesterday that he examined only the late officer's signature and made no attempt to authenticate the documents themselves. "There's no way that I, as a document expert, can authenticate them," Marcel Matley said in a telephone interview from San Francisco. The main reason, he said, is that they are "copies" that are "far removed" from the originals. Read on. It gets even worse. PS: WJS's John Fund talks about how "CBS stonewalls as "guys in pajamas" uncover a fraud." One could be confused to think Dan Rather is the one running for office or, maybe, that if the hoax memos are tracked to their source, it would hit uncomfortably close to somebody he'd like to see elected. 2:15:43 PM    comment []  trackback []

Discredited memos William Safire is not impressed with the CBS. It may be that CBS is the victim of a whopping journalistic hoax, besmearing a president to bring him down. What should a responsible news organization do? To shut up sources and impugn the motives of serious critics - from opinionated bloggers to straight journalists - demeans the Murrow tradition. Nor is any angry demand that others prove them wrong acceptable, especially when no original documents are available to prove anything. It is the response from those who have no answer. 2:09:08 PM    comment []  trackback []

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