Announcements

• BIND holes mean big trouble on the Net, The Register, 31 Jan 2001.
• SDMI Challenge Results from the Princeton/Rice/Xerox team.
• 27 September, 2000: most recent update of Dr David Touretzky's Gallery of CSS Descramblers, with humorous and trenchant commentary on free speech issues arising in current litigation under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (USA). Touretzky is now constructing a Steganography Wing.
• 5 Oct, 2000: Microsoft TechNet presentation on Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, Centra Ballroom, 128 Albert St, 12:30 - 2pm. No charge, but preregistration is necessary.
• 30 Sep, 2000: First public release of SandMark watermarking system for Java applications. SandMark embodies the research described in Software Watermarking: Models and Dynamic Embeddings, Christian Collberg and Clark Thomborson ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL99).
• 27 Sep, 2000: USA Today news article, Experts see rash of hack attacks coming Recent costly hits show 'more brazen' criminals preying on companies
• 22 Sep, 2000: Prof Bartel will lecture on Java Embedded Technologies 10-11am in Engineering 3.408.
• 21 Sep, 2000: Paraphrasing for Postgraduate Students (one of many helpful and timely short courses offered by the SLC).
• 16 Sep to 7 Oct, 2000: Secure Digital Music Initiative Public Challenge.
• 15 Sep, 2000: CERT Warning of "Distributed Denial of Service" attacks. RedHat Linux systems are common targets. A CERT Advisory bulletin describes some defensive actions.
• 23-25 Nov, 2000: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering in Australia.
• 1 Aug, 2000: See Watermarks in Music? for a semi-technical description of how the SDMI may find "ways for open MP3s to cohabit with protected music."
• 1 Aug 2000: See Section 2.1 of A Study into the Problem of Software Piracy in Hong Kong and China for a brief discussion of the ethics of copyright from a Chinese cultural perspective.