ICANN's deal allowing the private firm Verisign to maintain control of .com
forever may fall foul of US anti-trust legislation:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4482292.stm
Legal analysis of the Microsoft XML document covenant suggests it has rather
more holes than Swiss cheese:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20051129101457378
OSDL Starts looking at exactly why people have difficulty switching to Linux.
USB And printer support come up, but mostly it doesn't run Windows applications:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1893639,00.asp
Firefox 1.5 is released, becoming the first full release version with SVG
graphics support and with improved navigation controls:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/D58782966C28AE43CC2570C8000DEE51?OpenDocument
Secunia issues a rare "Extremely Critical" advisory as an existing unpatched
Internet Explorer vulnerability is expanded upon. Firefox anyone?:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1893512,00.asp
http://getfirefox.com
eWeek does a comparison of user access rights management across various
operating systems:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1893373,00.asp
Now music retailers have another woe to add to the list of reasons for
decreasing album sales. Customers are avoiding DRM'd music:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051128-5635.html
The trail of software piracy by the authors of the Sony DRM rootkit is
augmented by newsgroup messages from the authors soliciting code:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/28/sony_rootkit_author_.html
Samsung announces a 7" TFT LCD using thin, pliable plastic to display
640x480 resolution in colour with a high enough speed to play video:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27973
New York's Attorney General goes shopping and finds Sony Rootkit CDs still on
sale:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051129-5641.html
Diebold may have to withdraw their voting machines, as they cannot show all the
source code - their OS is closed-source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10252248/from/RS.4/
New Orleans is using a free WiFi network to try to improve the recovery
post-Katrina:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051129-5647.html
And finally. How to crack a safe or gain entry to secure areas with a thermal
imaging camera:
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/tsafe/
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.