Coupures de Presse [ le 6 mars ]

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Piraté Le futur système de guidage de missiles américain piraté Le code source d'un logiciel destiné au guidage des missiles américains a été dérobé par un pirate. Le FBI mène l'enquête. (ZDNet) Abondance La "boutique Abondance" est en ligne La "boutique Abondance" est officiellement en ligne depuis hier. Dans le cadre de l'abonnement payant au site (400 FHT par an), vous pouvez en effet, à partir d'aujourd'hui, profiter d'offres spéciales sur des produits ayant un rapport avec la recherche d'information ou la promotion de sites web (études, formations, colloques, séminaires, conférences, abonnement à des revues, etc.). Abonnez-vous!

Press clippings [ March 6, 2001 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch More on Web Bugs Email Wiretapping I recently learned about a new snooping technology for email that made me fall out of my chair. It allows someone who sends you an email to see what you wrote when you forward the email with a comment to someone else. In other words, a wiretap. It's very illegal, but it's also very easy to do. I tested out the email wiretap with a dozen friends and for the most part it worked flawlessly. Richard Smith's Tipsheet from the Privacy Foundation. What exactly is a Web Bug? FAQ from the Privacy Foundation. BUG 'EM RIGHT BACK --- DAVENETICS A few companies are working on software tools that will notify users when their movements are being tracked on the web. (ZDnet / Davenetics)

Linking issue Trace who is linking to your site A British company has come up with what it claims to be the first true map of the Web. The LinkMap will let site owners track inbound links to their sites, and is aimed at deep linking. (The Register)

E-Mail Hack at Amazon-owned service exposes thousands Bibliofind.com, a book service owned by the e-tail giant, restarts its Web site in the wake of a hacker attack that compromised about 98,000 personal customer records. (News.com)

Napster Napster hits the mute button As filters take effect, songs begin vanishing from the music-swapping service. But at least in its first version, the filter appeared to have serious holes in it. Many of the songs that are blocked are still easily available, as their song titles have minor misspellings that are still picked up in Napster's apparently error-tolerant search engine. (News.com)

HotMail Hotmail's subscriber information shared with public Internet directory The free e-mail service from Microsoft, hotmail, is divulging subscribers' e-mail addresses, cities and states to a public Internet directory site that combines the information with telephone numbers and home addresses. (Nando News)

Arranging marriages online Internet site arranges marriage of old and new' First there was online shopping, then came internet dating. Now to the burgeoning list of traditional activities going hi-tech, a British businessman has added another: arranged marriages. Sadiq Shah, from Luton, has launched a website aimed at Asian parents who are struggling against the tide of progress to find suitable spouses for their offspring. Within a month, the site, kuchkuchhotahai.net - named after the movie Something Something is Happening Now - has attracted 200 members. (The Guardian)

I-Catholicism Church Puts Faith In World Wide Web Aid groups, private firms and governments are at the forefront of connecting rural areas in other developing countries, but the Catholic church leads the push onto the Web in the Philippines. (WSJ) Paid subscription required.