Robert Lemos

The social networking site has paired up with an ID verification firm to build a national database of convicted sex offenders, a technology the service hopes will enable it to keep predators out of its community.
SecurityFocus

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It’s amazing that five years after it sued Roxio, Gracenote is still dealing with the act of taking private a database built using user submissions. The latest news: After an interview giving his side of the story, Gracenote founder Steve Scherf apparently is editing Wikipedia to take out objectionable (and he argues, inaccurate) content.

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Security issues at MySpace and other sites have raised fears over protecting users against Trojan horse programs masquerading as user-created content.
SecurityFocus

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A new experiment sends a simple idea racing around the web, and tracks its progress. All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again.
Wired News

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