Archive 9. April 2004

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PLT Spy - News

With PLT Spy - the Python implementation for the PLT Scheme runtime - development continues. The current approach is to bring the CPython API to PLT Spy and integrate it into the PLT Scheme runtime, making it possible to use CPython extensions. The goal is to be able to use almost all extensions and also the original C code for standard types in PLT Spy, thereby making all CPython libraries available at once.

That sounds very good, but it raises the question of why one should still use PLT Spy - the linked article provides some answers, but concrete details will only be apparent once things have progressed further.

Here you can find the original article.

Dragnet search does not lead to success

And Schily of course still sees the dragnet investigation as successful. Top marks on the open-ended idiocy scale ...

At heise online news there's the original article.

Spyware manufacturer wants to go public

Audacious. Data protection violations without end, fraudulent software installation (because nowhere does this garbage warn that data is being spied on and forwarded), and the whole thing packaged in a form that's more reminiscent of viruses and worms than proper software (namely piggybacking on other programs). And something like this wants to go public.

At heise online news there's the original article.