FBI investigates password-stealing scam By Joe Wilcox, Staff Writer, CNET News. The FBI is looking into an Internet password-stealing scam that may have forwarded stolen online banking codes to free email accounts run by U.S. companies, according to security experts involved in the investigation. That could pose a serious threat not only to banks but to consumers as well, according to security experts. Like the original virus, it sends copies of itself to all of the addressees in a victim's email address book. Source code is the means by which these instructions are expressed in ways that people can examine and understand.
Source code is speech.
On the Internet, there can be no genuine freedom of speech unless source code is a protected form of speech. The judge then enjoined Eric Corley, publisher of 2600 magazine, from assisting his readers in accessing code that unlocks DVD content. The Supreme Court has already laid the foundation for reversal of this ruling, in Justice Stevens' majority opinion striking down the Communications Decency Act of 1996. MasterCard said Tuesday that its new group will give its member banks a selection of providers offering turnkey solutions to help them offer this technology to their cardholders. Participants in MasterCard's new program include SecureNet Ltd., ACI Worldwide and Gemplus, it said, Other vendors are expected to join up in time, it added.