Day January 25, 2006

WaPo says Dubya’s stonewalling won’t play. Here are some things we know about Jack Abramoff and the White House: The disgraced lobbyist raised at least $100,000 for President Bush’s reelection campaign. He had long-standing ties to Karl Rove, a key…

Low tech defeat for CD DRM! Applying a piece of opaque tape to the outer edge of the disk renders the data track of the CD unreadable. A computer trying to play the CD will then skip to the music…

Industry and academia have joined together in an open source-like initiative to stop spyware, an excellent idea indeed. StopBadware.org is a “Neighborhood Watch” campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in…