Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. -- Blore's Razor 'Spyware' steps out of the shadows Late in July, an e-mail that hit employee in-boxes at a British credit card and finance company carried a secret payload--"spyware" capable of recording confidential corporate data and sending it over the Net. Cisco security initiative In an unusual alliance among staunch competitors, Cisco Systems will collaborate with three of the largest computer security firms to fight virus and worm attacks. I, Cringely Natural Deselection: Not Even Microsoft Will Last Forever, but They Plan to Try Key Found to Why Sun's Magnetic Poles Flip Every 11 years the Sun's magnetic field flips, but scientists don't know what triggers it. A new study shows that big eruptions of superheated gas, called coronal mass ejections, may play an important role. BSD developers speak out on SCO campaign In view of the latest SCO lawsuit news conference, we have been talking to BSD professionals to get their opinions, including one of the principals in the AT&T vs. Berkeley Software Design, Inc. lawsuit settlement of 1994; a disillusioned former SCO employee; and several other BSD developers. We reveal major UNIX? IP violations This week The SCO Group hinted that BSD distributions would be next under the Utah microscope. SCO this week said it was "examining" the AT&T settlement to see who might have leaked the ancient AT&T-derived UNIX? code and put it into a BSD distribution. Did SCO Really Reveal the Code to IBM, as Darl Claims? You may have noticed that in the teleconference on Tuesday, SCO CEO Darl McBride made the claim that they have shown the code to IBM in discovery and that IBM knows exactly what code is in dispute. (C) Shouting Red Goanna Inc. A wholly subsidiary of Screaming Blue Wombat Inc. / Avenging Green Seahorse Industries