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Saturday, May 3, 2003

Overpeer and Media Defender are two of about a dozen tech companies developing software that would "sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who download pirated music", according to the New York Times. Programs, developed for record companies, include 'silence', which searches for and deletes music files from hard drives, 'freeze' which locks up a computer for 'minutes or hours', Trojan Horses and viruses. A Wired News article identifies Overpeer as appearing to be the leading generator of 'spoof' music files. If this wasn't in the New York Times, I would have considered it apocryphal hacker community jive...
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Why Gary Hart Wants to Blog. Without actually entering the presidential race, the former senator is testing the waters for a potential White House bid with a weblog that advertises his views on security and other issues. Will other pols follow suit? By Patrick di Justo. From Wired News...
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