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...Secret Service agents say they've uncovered the biggest e-commerce extortion scheme ever, involving more than one million credit card numbers stolen by hackers working with Russian and Ukrainian organized crime. Agents say the mobsters hack e-commerce sites, download customers' personal information and credit card numbers, then call victim companies to extort protection money. They threaten to post the purloined personal information and card numbers on the Internet - angering current customers and scaring off prospective ones - if the companies don't hire them as "security consultants...
...great wireless war based on the idea that you will no longer need to carry an assortment of Palm Pilots, Blackberrys, Discmen, pagers and phones to keep in touch or keep in tunes. In DoCoMo's world, you'll carry only a single broadband phone to e-mail friends, download and listen to music, read magazine articles and log on to thousands of i-mode websites for anything from menus to dating services to medical help. You might even use the phone to call somebody...
...Well, Napster's rivals are certainly rubbing their hands with glee, because Napster, for the next few months, doesn't have anything at all to offer. People who want to download free music won't be able to get it there, and those who would be willing to pay for it won't be able to that either, not until June...
...There's talk among the geeks out here about something called CPRM, which is something that IBM is working on. Basically, it's a new kind of hard drive that would block the download of any copyrighted material...
...best alternatives could be the most legally vulnerable. Take Aimster, the Napster clone that relies on AOL's ever popular instant-messaging software. Download it (from Aimster.com) and you'll get an unseen extra layer to your buddy list, called a Buddyizer. This means that theoretically you can trade your MP3s with some 60 million "buddies." Hey, presto: an instant Napster-size network. As a bonus, Aimster currently searches Napster as well. "People already have thousands of MP3 files on AOL. All we did was add a search function," says Johnny Deep (his real name), 43, a software engineer...