News for Friday

It's time for news....

1. Sunncomm decides not to sue the Princeton student who revealed how to disable its CD copy protection scheme. The company was threatening litigation under the DMCA. Sunncomm CEO Peter Jacobs told The Daily Princetonian, "I don't want to be the people my parents warned me to stay away from."
2. Yesterday SANS Institute called Microsoft's Outlook and Outlook Express major security vulnerabilities, now a group of security experts are saying stay away from Internet Explorer.
3. Redmond's response? Microsoft says it's going to stop issuing weekly software patches, instead moving to monthly patches except in case of emergency. Ballmer says predictability is more important than... what... security? Good news for dial-up Windows users, patch size will be reduced 30-80% by only shipping the deltas instead of the entire file. About time.
4. Missouri's AG is the first to file anti-spam lawsuits under the state's new law. 35 states now have anti-spam laws. Notice how spam has dropped off?
5. Instant Messaging Planet says AOL is planning to insert streaming TV-like ads into AIM. Hey, that's our job.
6. New Scientist is reporting that a new game copy protection scheme from Macrovision degrades the gameplay slowly on pirated discs. The idea is to get the pirate hooked on the game before disabling it.