NEW! November 27, 2001 - A Dark Side to the FBI's Magic Lantern - BusinessWeeek Online, SECURITY NET, By Alex Salkever, The agency may be developing data-tracking software that can be slipped into a computer without warning -- or a search warrant. The Web has been abuzz recently with rumors of a new tool in the FBI's cyberarsenal. A half-dozen reputable news organizations have published stories about the so-called "Magic Lantern" -- software that supposedly tracks every keystroke made on a computer. No one, including me, has been able to get on-the-record confirmation...

 NEW! November 30, 2001 - Free speech shrinking on the Net? - By Robert Lemos, Special to ZDNet News, A one-two punch handed down this week by U.S. courts to free-speech advocates may signal that the freewheeling days of unfettered speech on the Internet are numbered, First Amendment experts said. The decisions in two lawsuits testing controversial copyright legislation on Wednesday upheld the ability of content owners to restrict access to their works and showed that U.S. courts are more than willing to limit what can be published online...

 November 01, 2001 - Bill to Linus: You Owe Me - By Robert X. Cringely, PBS.org, Did Bill Gates Invent Open Source Software? No, But He'll Take Credit For It, Anyway. Thanksgiving week is always difficult for me. PBS wants my column early, of course, but the real problem is that much of what I write is often lost to readers, obscured by the effects of whatever that chemical is in turkey meat that makes us fall asleep. People simply don't remember what I write that week, which is of course, this week. I have to work all the harder to shock them out of their holiday stupor. So the shocking questions for this week are 1) Is Bill Gates really the father of the Open Source software movement? and; 2) If Bill isn't the father of Open Source, did he violate a crucial IBM nondisclosure agreement and ought to pay billions in damages to Big Blue as a result?