According to the Los Angeles Times, “[h]ackers’ latest tactic to steal information is setting up fake hotspots that users unwittingly use to access Internet.”

The Financial Times reports that “Internet censorship is spreading rapidly, being practised by about two dozen countries [so-called “pervasive blockers”] and applied to a far wider range of online information and applications”.  The really bad part is that new countries are “learning from experienced practitioners such as China and benefiting from technological improvements.”

CNetNews.com has an interesting article on a war game played out at London Business School last week that sought to determine which business model is likely to be the most successful: MySpace, YouTube, Facebook or Second Life?  MySpace won, even though “the participants concluded that both MySpace and YouTube are vulnerable to legal attacks and government regulations that target illegal activities and objectionable content, like child pedophilia and pornography.”

Slashdot predicts Novell’s admission that Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux will not go down well with the open source community.

Internetnews.com reports that a House panel today again “rolled out anti-spyware legislation that the U.S. House has twice passed only to be twice rejected by the Senate.”