contributed by g.machine
Rules and treaties originally drawn up fifty years ago to outline basic human rights failed to anticipate advancements in technology. Now the European Union is attempting to rewrite those rules which would included a ban on 'systematic interception' of electronic communications. This would essentially ban Echelon and Frenchelon. (Why do the Europeans seem to understand privacy so much better than US lawmakers?)

Heise

contributed by root66
The Dutch Parliament is currently debating a bill that will give increased powers to the Dutch Intelligence Agency BVD. If passed the bill would allow the agency to intercept satellite communications at random and search the intercepted traffic by keywords.

Heise

contributed by Evil Wench
Unsolicited commercial email is finding new ways of interrupting our lives with their unwanted and unwelcome messages. Companies are now using wireless messaging services to page people with advertisements for their products. the company responsible for the SPAM, plugout.com, said that it was only a one time occurrence and will never happen again. (That's one time too many, if everyone did it one time...)

Washington Post

contributed by Code Kid
RedWood City California based Equinix has just opened its bomb proof Net shelter. The shelter is said to be more secure than Fort Knox to protect the servers of third party companies housed inside. The compound includes geometric hand-scanners, automated mantrap and other fancy security devices. Equinix has already built two such shelters on the East Coast and plans on 26 more throughout the county. (While Equinix may have the physical security they do not provide any Internet security. Doh!)

Wired
Reuters - via Yahoo
Equinix

contributed by tricky deamon
It seems the BSD family has a new member, TrustedBSD. TrustedBSD provides a set of trusted operating system extensions to the FreeBSD operating system, targeting the Orange Book B1 evaluation criteria.

TrustedBSD

contributed by Evil Wench
Speaking in Sydney Australia last week, the president of the Business Software Alliance, Mr Robert Holleyman, said there were at least 690,000 warez, appz and crackz Web pages on the Internet. (690,000? Who went around and counted them all? By the time they finished half of them were probably down.)

Sydney Morning Herald

contributed by Evil Wench
Just how legal is it to launch a counterattack against an online attacker? Would you be committing just as big a crime as they are? How can you be sure you are counterattacking the correct target? Should laws be passed to legalize hostile responses?

CNN

contributed by dave920
The second issue of HYPE has been released by Black Market Enterprises featuring w00w00.org. HWA Hax0r News is up to issue number 52.

BME
HWA Hax0r News

contributed by Space Rogue
The affiliates list has finally been purged once again of old and dead links. If your site was removed from the list accidentally please let us know.

HNN Affiliates