Joe Mullin writes “We’ve discussed Troll Tracker here before — the anonymous blogger who was outed last month as Rick Frenkel, a Cisco lawyer. Since then, two lawyers from the notoriously patent-friendly Eastern District of Texas have filed defamation suits against Frenkel and Cisco, and Frenkel’s blog has been shuttered. One of the plaintiffs, a renowned patent judge’s son, might have been hunting the anonymous blogger for months. This week Cisco announced new blogging guidelines in response to the Troll Tracker fiasco. The company acknowledged that ‘a few Cisco employees used poor judgment’ during secret-blog-time, but they’re largely standing by their man. Cisco’s new rules will prohibit only anonymous blogging by employees about issues for which ‘they have responsibilities at Cisco.’”

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A number of readers let us know about the Chaos Personal Club’s latest caper: they published the fingerprint of German Secretary of the Interior Wolfgang Sch

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Joe Barr writes “Robin Miller has an exclusive video interview with Larry Rosen and Fred Popowich this morning on Linux.com about their new open source business model which includes software patents in its DNA. Their motto is ‘Free for open source, everyone else pays.’ Larry Rosen was once legal counsel for the OSI.” Linux.com and Slashdot share a corporate parent.

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dooling writes “In case you were thinking of building your own atom bomb, you may want to weigh your intellectual property liability. It seems there are over 2000 patents covering the atom bomb. To avoid publishing the patents, a central tenet of the patent system, “the project made use of an obscure law whereby patent applications could be filed but no one would actually look at them or evaluate them. They would just be stamped secret and stored in a vault at the patent office.” The irony here’s that while all the patents were essentially stored in the same place at the patent office and written to be understandable by any engineer, the Manhattan Project worked diligently to compartmentalize knowledge, using code names for just about all aspects of the project and keeping tight security on all information. It seems the patents were filed to give the U.S. government an essential monopoly on the burgeoning nuclear industry and protect it against others who might patent similar technologies later.”

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DimitryGH followed up on the earlier news that the MacBook Air lost CanSecWest by noting that “Last year’s winner of the CanSecWest hacking contest has won the Vista laptop in this year’s competition. According to the sponsor TippingPoint’s blog, Shane Macaulay used a new 0day exploit against Adobe Flash in order to secure his win. At the end of the day, the only laptop (of OS X, Vista, and Ubuntu) that remained unharmed was the one running Ubuntu. How’s that for fueling religious platform wars?”

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FreedomFighter writes “Since the release of Windows Vista, Creative has promised their Sound Cards as being ‘Vista Ready’. Unfortunately, as many unlucky customers did discover, this is not true. What the users actually found were buggy, feature crippled drivers. Creative insisted that features such as Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS(TM) signals and DVD-Audio which worked fine in WinXP, wouldn’t work on windows Vista. With Creative releasing less than one new driver a year, things seemed bleak. Fortunately, a talented user, Daniel_K, was recently able to ‘fix’ many of the drivers, enabling the incompatible features and also fixing many bugs. Just this day Creative has decided to put a stop to this. They removed all links to his altered drivers, and banned several users who were posting links to the now banned drivers.”

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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “The US Patent & Trademark Office has invalidated all 44 claims in Blackboard’s patent. While this is a non-final action [PDF], which means that Blackboard will be able to appeal, it does represent a win for the Software Freedom Law Center which had requested the reexamination of Blackboard’s patent. It isn’t yet known how this will affect the $3.1M judgment Blackboard won from Desire2Learn.”

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