The Right to Read. By Richard Stallman Join our mailing list about the dangers of eBooks. This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2). From The Road To Tycho, a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096. For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college—when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan. This put Dan in a dilemma. And there wasn't much chance that the SPA—the Software Protection Authority—would fail to catch him. Of course, Lissa did not necessarily intend to read his books.
Later on, Dan would learn there was a time when anyone could go to the library and read journal articles, and even books, without having to pay. There were ways, of course, to get around the SPA and Central Licensing. Lissa did not report Dan to the SPA. Author's Note. Mark Zuckerberg is TIME Magazine's Person of the Year? Where's the "dislike" button? As for Person of the Year, we couldn't find the dislike button on Facebook for TIME's choice, so we made our own.
Here's our version of the magazine: Unfortunately, the terms under which he claims to have done this set a terrible precedent for our future — for our control over the software we use to interact with each other, for control over our data, and for our privacy. The damage is not limited to Facebook users. Because so many sites — including TIME — use Facebook's user-tracking "Like" button, Zuckerberg is able to collect information about people who aren't even users of his site. These are precedents which hurt our ability to freely connect with each other.
This much is evident from Facebook's outward behavior — but things could actually be much worse than we know. Fortunately, there are many efforts underway to provide distributed, user-controlled services to facilitate connection between people, including GNU social, status.net, Crabgrass, Appleseed and Diaspora. The Jane Dough | News and Opinion on Women in Business.
GOV Resources. 624051 - Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) insecurely deallocates memory. Overview The Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) service contains a double-free vulnerability that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Impact Solution Vendor Information (Learn More) If you are a vendor and your product is affected, let us know. CVSS Metrics (Learn More) References Credit Microsoft credits Luigi Auriemma, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative. This document was written by Art Manion based on information from MS12-020 and ZDI-12-044. Other Information CVE IDs: CVE-2012-0002CVE-2012-0152 US-CERT Alert: TA12-073A Date Public: 13 Mar 2012 Date First Published: 15 Mar 2012 Date Last Updated: 27 Mar 2012 Severity Metric: 12.29 Document Revision: 24 Feedback If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us email.
PRI • Pacific Research Institute. Invisible Mercedes. Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide.