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P2P Is Larger Than Record Business
Legislator Wants to Change Wireless Standard in Iraq
Microsoft NT 4 Vulnerability Can’t Be Fixed

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Mar 28, 20031 min
CSO and CISOData and Information Security

P2P Is Larger Than Record Business

Peer-to-peer file sharing is now bigger than the recording industry, according to Senate testimony that is reported in today’s Washington Post. The Post reports that a media analyst told the Senate that 61 million Americans download files and only 9 percent of them believe that they are doing something wrong.Legislator Wants to Change Wireless Standard in IraqWashington Post. The Post reports that Rep. Darrell Issa has introduced legislation that would force the Agency for International Development to award a contract for the work to a U.S. company using the CDMA standard developed by San-Diego-based Qualcomm. Iraq and other Arab countries currently use the GSM standard.

A California congressman is already pressing Congress to award a constituent company the contract to rebuild the wireless network in Iraq, according to a story in today’s

Microsoft NT 4 Vulnerability Can’t Be FixedVNUNET.com. The story reports that patches have been issued for Windows 2000 and NT systems, but the problem with NT 4 is not fixable.

Microsoft has warned that a vulnerability affects Windows 2000, XP, and NT 4 that could make is possible for hackers to launch denial of service attacks, according to a story on