InfoWorld has a feature on the Secure Digital Music Initiative : “But the question remains whether this time SDMI is in the spotlight to stay. SDMI is the music industry’s response to the challenges posed by the digitalization of music. In the future, many, and possibly all, compact discs will be SDMI-compliant, meaning that each song will have a ‘watermark’ embedded in it. When songs are copied to a computer, this watermark will govern how a song may be copied and played and who has to pay for it and when.”

SecurityPortal.com has a review of those nasty Linux viruses: “Viruses are, by
definition, malicious pieces of code that
replicate themselves. They can do this
through a variety of methods, including
“infecting” other executable files or
spreading macros and other forms of
executable content (e.g. JPEGs). Viruses
are most commonly spread by users
sharing files, which is especially easy with email, and with such a wide variety of
content being available on Web and FTP servers.”

From CRN.com: “When it comes to open source, some vendors like to have their
cake and eat it too.

That’s the conclusion of analyst Amy Wohl, who says of such
vendors, ‘They want credit for being good guys and hewing to
the pure brotherhood of Open Source, but they also want the
protection or the potential revenue . . . of closed, proprietary
code.’ “

LinuxSecurity.com has a how-to article about building a secure server: “Using apache and OpenSSL you can create your own secure web server to keep
authentication and other information private from prying eyes.

Having a secure web server is a vital necessity if you are doing on-line administration, banking
and/or e-commerce.”

“Coolscreen is proud to be one of the first Linux site that offers news about Linux
in Danish. We intend to be your first choice when you are looking for news about
Linux written in Danish.” The announcement’s at Linux Today.

“This document briefly describes where the Mozilla project has
been, and then details where it is going. It proposes key “road rules” and a release schedule for ongoing
Mozilla-the-browser source milestone releases, from which anyone can build commercial and other products. It
also hints at how Mozilla-the-platform should evolve, again from an operational or ‘release process’ point of view.
The entire document is at Mozilla.org.

Linux World does a feature on Bonnie Crater, CEO of OpenSales. She says, “I think we are very fortunate in our industry where it really doesn’t matter if
you are a man or a woman in these various roles … I firmly believe that our industry has provided
opportunity for lots of women to be successful and I am fortunate to be one of them.”

Linux Today has the announcement.

Peguinppc.org has a how-to article on the “mystical” task of printing with a USB printer.

The Slashdot community discusses Network ICE’s release of a Carnivore-like
tool that does what the FBI says Carnivore is supposed to
do. Here’s a story from The Register.