S Anand

Better be a bit careful about online payments. A Russian hacker stole from 40 companies. Amazon’s subsidiary was hit. And IBM’s Net.Commerce is buggy.

Two MIT students have written a 7-line program that unscrambles protected DVDs. It’s downloadable. The legal issue is whether source code deserves protection on par with freedom of expression.

Some press clippings about the IIM-B convocation (and me).

I’m graduating today, and there’s a live webcast of the IIM-B convocation starting 6:15PM IST.

Adobe lets you create PDF files on the Web without using any software.

China and the Internet.

I can’t seem to locate the access log (which used to be on unix2 at /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log). So, sorry — can’t give any more statistics on the hits.

Warner Brothers are making a Harry Potter movie.

Human Spell Check tosses out some glaring spelling mistakes at famous websites — which presumably would have run a spell-checking software on their site. Mind you, I personally do not.

With the Internet economy booming despite the collapse of dot-coms, the OECD countries are getting ready to tax the Internet.