Hacker strips DRM from streaming Netflix movies ... Microsoft reveals roadmap for Commerce Server

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News: Hacker strips DRM from streaming Netflix movies
News: Microsoft reveals roadmap for Commerce Server
News: Cisco blames site outage on accident
News: Security firm automates generating attack code
News: HP turns to Linux for data center of the future
Windows Tip: Building a supportable enterprise, part 3
ITwhirled: Ten reasons to ditch your cellphone


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Hacker strips DRM from streaming Netflix movies
A hacker has posted instructions for how to save streamed movies from the Netflix Inc. service, undermining Microsoft Corp.'s copy protection technology designed to prevent people from saving the content.

Microsoft reveals roadmap for Commerce Server
Interest in software that enables companies to build marketplaces on the Web is not as keen as it used to be back in the early days of e-commerce. However, Microsoft Corp. Wednesday made a commitment to keep developing its offering in this space for at least the next three years.

Cisco blames site outage on accident
Cisco Systems Inc. blamed an outage that affected part of its Web site Wednesday on an accident during maintenance of a San Jose, California, data center.

DEFCON: Security firm automates generating attack code
Security firm Immunity has released a tool aimed at largely automating the process of putting together security exploits, a move some believe will lead to a dramatic rise in the number of "zero-day" exploits making the rounds.

LINUXWORLD: HP turns to Linux for data center of the future
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s ambition to build the "next-generation data center" depends on Linux and open source, an HP executive said at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Wednesday.

Former SunRocket customers struggle with new provider
Customers of SunRocket Inc., the VOIP company that recently folded, may have hoped their troubles were over when two competitors stepped up to offer them service in the absence of the failed provider. But for some, transferring to one of the new providers hasn't proved to be a better option than SunRocket.


WINDOWS TIP

Building a supportable enterprise, part 3
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises

It's called the law of unintended consequences -- you do "A" to take care of "B", and then "C" unexpectedly happens. In a previous tip, I talked about "leaving well enough alone" and gave the example that when you uninstall Outlook Express from your domain controller (Why not? Who needs an email client on a domain controller? What could go wrong?), an unintended consequence can occur: it breaks your CDO interfaces on your server. While this example might seem a bit obscure to some, there are many more such "hidden dependencies" in Windows, and casual tweaking (in the name of "hardening") can often cause you to run up against these dependencies.

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