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Submission + - White House visitor logs being kept secret (excite.com)

Submitted by smooth wombat on Friday June 01, 2007 @07:46AM

smooth wombat writes: Claiming it is essential that the President and Vice President be able to receive candid advice, the President and Vice President have directed the Secret Service to maintain the confidentiality of visitor entry and exit logs, declaring them to be presidential records and exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

The administration is seeking dismissal of two lawsuits by a private group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, demanding Secret Service visitor logs.

Submission + - Firefox 3 0.5a to be Released Tomorrow

Submitted by

dteichman2

on Thursday May 31, 2007 @08:14AM

dteichman2 writes: "According to the Firefox 3 Schedule (page down at time of writing, Google cache), the code was frozen last night and the official release announcement for Gran Paradiso alpha 5 will take place tomorrow. Of course, since the code's frozen, it's all ready to go for you bleeding-edgers (Mozilla pub FTP). At first glance, it seems relatively stable... just don't click an extension link twice."

Spammer Robert Soloway Arrested 383

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 31, 2007 @08:00AM from the that-should-fix-it dept.

Mike writes "Yahoo is reporting that US prosecutors captured Robert Soloway, a prolific Internet marketer responsible so much junk e-mail they called him "Spam King." Soloway was arrested in Seattle, Washington, a week after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of identity theft, money laundering, and mail, wire, and e-mail fraud. Soloway is accused of using botnets to disguise where e-mail originated and of forging return addresses of real people or businesses for his mass mailings. If convicted as charged, Soloway will face a maximum sentence of more than 65 years in prison and a fine of 250,000 dollars."

Submission + - Number of security flaws nearer to 140,000 (itpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

Madas

on Thursday May 31, 2007 @07:41AM

Madas writes: "In this article in IT PRO, Renowned security expert Gunter Ollmann has made a big guess on the number of actual security vulnerabilities in applications last year. While publicly there are around 7,000 — Ollmann believes this total to be closer to 140,000. How many of those affect Windows?"

Submission + - Doctor Who to be Axed (again) (thesun.co.uk)

Submitted by

twofish

on Thursday May 31, 2007 @07:13AM

twofish writes: "According to UK tabloid The Sun Hit UK Sci Fi program Doctor Who will reportedly be killed again next year after the end of the fourth season.

Producer Russell T. Davies has decided to bring the hit sci-fi show to a close so he can concentrate on other projects, according to the article. The paper adds that Davies and other senior staff are feeling the strain of the heavy workload imposed by the show nine months a year of 16-hour days and plan to resign en-masse.

Davies, a long time fan of Doctor Who, relaunched the series in 2005, 16 years after the original series was axed. The program is currently mid way through it's third season on UK TV."

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