I guess the RIAA speaks for no one but themselves when they insist that their artists are being deprived because of illegal file sharing. What they really mean to say is, “I won’t be able to afford my third Ferrari this year because of you guys, so I’ll sue you for it.” Read the rest of this entry »

With all the talk about highly critical Microsoft blunders and botch-ups floating around lately it’s good to finally read some good news in the technology world. The Dept. of Homeland Security is providing Stanford University, Coverity, and Symantec with $1.24 million to find bugs in numerous open-source applications. Read the rest of this entry »

US-CERT released their 2005 Cyber Security Bulletin last week, claiming that Windows had 812 reported flaws and Unix/Linux had 2,328. This might come as a shock to you at first glance … and it is quite shocking; especially if you read their Technical Cyber Security Alerts page for the past two years (I’m not including 2006). Twenty-one of their reports mention vulnerabilities to Microsoft by name, and how many for Unix/Linux? Not one.

You might be thinking that something doesn’t add up here. Let’s breeze by Secunia and take a look at their stats to make sure we’re on the right track. Just to be fair (and so you don’t think I’m being biased towards Unix-based systems) I’m going to take the lowest stats for MS systems and I’ll use a bunch of different *nix systems (not just the highest or lowest). Also, I’m only using the latest versions of the different OS’s. Here we go: Read the rest of this entry »