According to Internetnews.com, research firm Gartner has criticized network intrusion prevention vendor TippingPoint for holding a public contest to discover vulnerabilities on the Mac platform, saying that “doing vulnerability research in public comes with ‘high risk.’"
On SiliconValleyWatcher, Richard Koman recommends that we rethink “the wisdom of crowds”, saying that “Digg’s only legal argument once they are sued [for leaving up user posts linking to a DRM crack after it had received a take down notice] will be ‘it was out of our hands because our business model is based on users controlling the site.’” This shows, according to Koman, that “Digg’s success is the seed of its own destruction – and it is not alone. Any truly user-driven site can careen out of control at any time.”
In the Washington Post, Rob Pegoraro lauds the Supreme Court for “[solving] one huge problem with the patent system” by “[clarifying] a basic definition of what’s patent-worthy: An invention must be new but not an obvious advance.” As Pegoraro points out, “there’s now real hope for clearing the patent thicket and allowing more customers to shop without hiring intellectual-property lawyers first.”
Networkworld reports that “VeriSign is looking to offer bank cards with an integrated one-time password generator, a slimmer way than key chains to implement two-factor authentication.”
BBC News writes that Greenpeace praised Apple’s decision to stop the use of PVC and BFRs, while at the same time reminding the company that it “still had ground to make up on its recycling policy.”