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6th March 2004 Archive

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  • Microsoft wins latest Halloween PR bout – without really trying

    Analysis Watch the skies!

    Microsoft and SCO will be delighted by the reaction to Eric Raymond's latest Halloween Memo. Facing fairly incriminating evidence on the charge that both parties want to wipe out free software development, Microsoft walked free on the lesser charge of funding SCO's specific legal campaign against Linux, under the Scottish …

    Software 6 Mar 2004, 12:27

  • Feds: email subpoena ruling hurts law enforcement

    Significance 'cannot be overstated'

    A federal appeals court has declined to reverse last year's decision that the issuance of an egregiously overbroad subpoena for email can qualify as a computer intrusion in violation of anti-hacking laws. This is despite an argument by the Justice Department that a side-effect of the ruling has already made it harder for law …

    Security 6 Mar 2004, 15:28

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