contributed by evenprime
The Driver's Privacy Law, a 1994 federal law limiting the sale of personal information by states, has been supported by the Supreme Court. The precendent-setting case established that State owned databases are subject to federal regulation as interstate commerce just as any other commodity. Such databases would include personal, identifying information from drivers' licenses and motor vehicle registrations. (This case has implications regarding not only future state run databases but commercial ones as well.)

ZD Net
Wired

contributed by Weld Pond
Kevin Mitnick is set to be released from federal prison next Friday. While his family and supporters will celebrate the occasion what sort of life can Kevin look forward to? Will the court order preventing him from accessing computer equipment help in his reform? Kevin Poulsen examines these questions in his ZD Net article.

Chaos Theory

contributed by Dildog
The ultra-orthodox Council of Torah Sages (an important leadership group in the Jewish community, based out of Israel) signed a ruling banning the Internet from the homes of all Jews. The ultra-orthodox constitute less than 1%" of the total Jewish community in Israel, however, it is unknown how much influence over the rest of the community the council has.

Wired

contributed by Evil Wench
Four teenagers in New Jersey have been arrested and charged with fraud, conspiracy, credit card theft and receiving stolen property. The boys, aged 14 to 16, tricked customers of AOL to reveal their personal information including credit card numbers. The teens then used the numbers to order items that where shipped to unoccupied houses.

Nando Times

contributed by Owlclown
OSALL, an underground and computer security news site, was removed from the internet last Friday by their ISP. While the exact cause of the removal is not yet known they are seeking a new home. OSALL has released this statement.

OSALL Press Release

contributed by audit
Although Attrition.org is temporarily down due to a crashed hard drive Radius.net has agreed to host defacement mirrors at their site until attrition can be repaired. The attrition staff will still be on hand to mirror the defacements but they will be hosted at www.radiusnet.net/mirror. Notification of defacements can be sent to hacked@radiusnet.net.

Radius.net

contributed by Hell and Xenos
There is a new spanish e-zine available called Digital Rebel, Issue #3 of Digital defiance has also been released.

Digital Rebel
Digital Defiance