News from PANUG/BizNix - April 29, 2003
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EYE SPY
by David May

This showed up in my web server logs this morning:

67.113.225.66 ... "GET /video/testclearpicture.viv HTTP/1.1" 404 308 

If this is Greek to you, it means that someone is trying
to find video cameras hooked up to computers so they
can spy on the computer's environment.
 
I have been wondering when someone would use a
compromised machine with a camera to snoop. With the
new version of flash doing video and audio recording
a whole new kind of security issue could arise.



$1 BILLION WELL SPENT?

In an interview with IBM's New Linux Boss, IBM claims
to have already recouped their one-billion investment
in Linux:
http://panug.org/10


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