Many thanks to Paul Hardwick for the note. Five major universities have turned down the FBI's offer to review the Carnivore system, claims Will Rodger in this USA Today story . MIT, Purdue, Dartmouth, the University of Michigan, and the UCSD Supercomputing Center have all signaled their unwillingness to participate. The issue is the FBI's conditions and restrictions on the review. They want a rubber stamp.
Some people listen to music while coding .
You'll be so glad you did. It's a rendition of one function from the module DVDdescramble.c , sung in a mock-70s folksy style in a rather cracked voice. It makes this song illegal Thanks to TBTF Irregular Strata Rose Chalup for the best laugh of the day. Wecker's guide for rendering the C code into plain English was this version by CMU professor Dave Touretzky, who testified as a witness in the recently concluded first phase of the DeCSS trial . At this rate, singing the whole package would occupy nearly half a CD-ROM and take 5 hours to perform.