The DMCA is being used to silence researchers, computer scientists and critics.
Corporations are using it against the public. Public/College radio stations can no longer afford to webcast.
Intel Adds DRM to New Chips
From Slashdot: "Microsoft and the entertainment industry's holy grail of controlling copyright through the motherboard has moved a step closer with Intel Corp. now embedding digital rights management within in its latest dual-core processor Pentium D and accompanying 945 chipset. Officially launched worldwide on the May 26, the new offerings come DRM -enabled and will, at least in theory, allow copyright holders to prevent unauthorized copying and distribution of copyrighted materials from the motherboard rather than through the operating system as is currently the case..."
UN World Summit on Internet physical security breeched
A group of researchers has succeed in gaining unauthorized access
to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
The official Summit badges, which are plastic and the size of a credit card, hide a .RF smart card. [1] - a hidden chip that can communicate its information via radio frequency. It carries both a unique identifier associated with the participant, and a radio frequency tag (RFID) that can be "read" when close to a sensor. These sensors can be located anywhere, from vending machines to the entrance of a specific meeting room allowing the remote identification and tracking of participants, or groups of participants, attending the event.
Students Fight E-Vote Firm
Swathmore students are protesting efforts by Diebold to prevent them and other
website owners from linking to some 15,000 internal company memos that reveal
the company was aware of security flaws in its e-voting software for years
but sold the faulty systems to states anyway. The memos were leaked to voting activists and journalists by a hacker who broke into an insecure Diebold FTP
server in March.
Time to Recall E-Vote Machines?
As Californians head to the polls on Tuesday, voters in at least one county will cast their ballots electronically on machines that have been shown to be flawed. Reverse engineering these voting machines is illegal under the DMCA unless
you are approved by Diebold.
