Wired News: As American as curry pie

Privacy.Org: Senate passes Student Privacy Protection Act

BBC News: Square fruit stuns Japanese shoppers

CNET News.com: Trojan horse targets Word users (yet another security hole attributable to sloppy Microsoft code)

As if X-10's new "popunder" ads on the N.Y. Times web site and elsewhere weren't annoying enough, the company now lets you opt-out of the annoying ads -- but you have to let them place a cookie on your hard drive in order to opt out. (Actually, they'll put a cookie on your hard drive when you visit their web site, whether or not you opt out.) Yet another argument for an opt-in rule, if you ask me.

AP: Can McVeigh killing be hacked?; San Antonio Express-News: Net security experts expecting bootleg video of McVeigh execution; search eBay for McVeigh execution video

St. Petersburg Times: Clothes make the inmate (jail trusties say their new uniforms make them look like the Hamburglar)

Cyberspacelaw: Washington spam statute upheld

RISKS: Converting Pi to binary: Don't do it! (why it is illegal to compute pi in binary)

Wired News: FTC powerless to protect privacy