[ANSOL-geral]Algumas notícias interessantes...

[Lopo de Almeida]

Browser Becomes Billboard
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/03/2111248

    MikeKD writes "Citing a desire to 'enhance the user experience',
    [0]United Virtualities is 'preparing to introduce a product [called
    Ooqa Ooqa] that will allow advertisers to [1]automatically change the
    appearance of Web browsers, usurping some of the functions built into
    popular browsers...', according to an MSNBC article--and all this
    supposedly without downloading any additional software. UV says a lot
    of sweet things about being able to turn it off and allowing the web
    sites to customize the degree of intrusion (from reverting to normal
    form when leaving to retaining the rebrand even after leaving), but
    does anyone think advertisers will restrain themselves? Not I." Friends
    don't let friends use browsers susceptible to this.
Links
    0. http://www.unitedvirtualities.com/
    1. http://www.msnbc.com/news/732865.asp

Should Open Source Software Expire?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/03/1858220

    Daffy writes "Jon Lasser at SecurityFocus has an [0]idea for combating
    the tendancy most sysadmins have to leave old versions of software
    running long after they're known to have security holes. He proposes
    implanting time codes into all open source networking and security
    software that cause it to "expire" like a Blade Runner replicant when
    it reaches a certain age, forcing an update."
Links
    0. http://online.securityfocus.com/columnists/72

Elcomsoft Case Proceeds; U.S. Claims Jurisdiction
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/03/1813238

    An anonymous reader sent in this Reuters article noting that the
    [0]Elcomsoft case will go forward. Elcomsoft had asserted that the
    [1]United States didn't have jurisdiction. This is not really
    ground-breaking news; Elcomsoft did sell its software to people in the
    United States and it's not surprising that a U.S. court would claim
    jurisdiction over this. Elcomsoft is also claiming that enforcement of
    the DMCA violates the Constitutional right to free speech, and that the
    part of the DMCA which prohibits distributing devices which circumvent
    protection measures is so vague that enforcement of it violates the
    Constitutional right to due process under the Fifth Amendment. (See
    [2]EFF's archive for more.) One or both of these claims may have a
    greater chance of success than the jurisdiction claim.
Links
    0. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/04/03/copyright.reut/index.html
    1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/05/1249213
    2. http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Elcomsoft/

BBC interview with RMS
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/03/1547237

    An anonymous reader submitted an [0]interview with RMS running over at
    the BBC. Doesn't really say much of anything that you haven't heard
    before but it's a nice little interview, and its not like much else is
    happening today :)
Links
    0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1898000/1898803.stm