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Kernel maintainer Alan Cox files patents for DRM!

These *defensive* patents would allow Cox's employer, Red Hat, to sue the pants off of parties who infringe the patent by employing DRM in their products. From the patent: "The method allows receipt of a notice regarding suspension of a sender's rights to use the content."
http://www.freshpatents.com/Alan-Cox-Swansea-invdirc.php
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Kernel_maintainer_Alan_Cox_files_patents_for…

Airbus is banking on open source

Airbus is banking on open source
The development of vital computer systems to be used and maintained for decades in aerospace and automobile construction is preconditioned on development tools the specifications of which elude most classical software products. Therefore a consortium of companies centered on the aircraft manufacturer Airbus has decided to make sure -- by launching a project dubbed TOPCASED (Toolkit in Open source for Critical Applications & Systems Development) -- that it gets its hands on such tools.

"The object is to obtain a collection of tools that covers the whole development process from system specification to the implementation of hard- and software," the Airbus manager Gérard Ladier explained. Mr. Ladier said that open source had meanwhile attained such a degree of maturity that it was now a credible solution for the creation of innovative, reliable system development tools designed to be maintained over long periods of time.

Security researcher to reveal one Mac OS X security hole per day

security researcher has picked January 2007 as the starting point for a month-long project in which each passing day will feature a previously undocumented security hole in Apple's OS X operating system or in Apple applications that run on top of it. The "Month of Apple Bugs" project is slated to begin on Jan. 1." Think different!
http://digg.com/security/Security_researcher_to_reveal_one_Mac_OS_X_sec…

Time Person of The Year: It's You!

YOU were named TIME magazine 'Person of the Year' Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet content such as 'blogs', video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace... You -- YES, YOU -- beat out candidates including Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, China's President Hu Jintao, North Korean leader Ki
http://digg.com/tech_news/Time_Person_of_The_Year_It_s_You

Vista Zero-Day Exploit For Sale

Underground hackers are hawking a zero-day exploit for Windows Vista at $50,000 a pop, according to computer security researchers at Trend Micro. The Windows Vista exploit, which has not been independently verified, was just one of many zero-days available for sale at an auction-style marketplace infiltrated by the anti-virus vendor. Prices for exploits for unpatched code execution flaws are in the $20,000 to $30,000 range. Bots and Trojan downloaders that typically hijack Windows machines for use in botnets were being sold for about $5,000.Vista Zero-Day Exploit For Sale