Google in a Box. The number one search engine is now offering a corporate search product in a Linux-based machine. [Product News]

Cisco Releases 6.2 Version of PIX Firewall Family. New platforms and security features extend Cisco's offerings for next-generation home or small office IP VPN networks. [Product News]

Design Flaw Found in .Net Framework. Even though it took only hours for security experts to discover a vulnerability in Microsoft's newly-released security enhancement, the report's author says Microsoft developers should be 'commended' for their attitude and approach to security. [Product News]

Tim Bray: “Today is the fourth anniversary of XML 1.0.”  [Scripting News]

Linkrot followup. Because I have archives of this weblog going back to 1997, and DaveNets going back to 1994, I have a pretty good idea which pubs take linkrot seriously and which don't. The NY Times, even though they have a gate that keeps the search engines out, has a perfect record. My pointers to [...]

InfoWorld – Check the fine print. Bill Gates says security is Microsoft's top priority, but just whose security does he have in mind? Consider some of Microsoft's recent boilerplate legalese — language you or your company might already have unknowingly accepted — and then decide for yourself. You can be forgiven if you feel like [...]

NY Times: “To make its case against severe sanctions, Microsoft, shifting its previous strategy, has named both Bill Gates, its cofounder and chairman, and Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive, as witnesses in a trial on remedies in the antitrust case it lost.”  [Scripting News]

Lighthouse: Trust: it's about good experience over time. Web sites are software too. Anyone conducting transactions or gathering user information on a commercial Web site should treat the task of trust-building with some of the urgency that Gates has brought to the task. So what makes a user trust a Web site? [Tomalak's Realm]

InfoWorld: IBM Research shows off modular hardware device. Code-named MetaPad, the device, which is three-quarters of an inch thick and measures 3 inches by 5 inches, is capable of holding all of a user's applications and data with a bare-bones hardware configuration. [Tomalak's Realm]

Enron's last-minute bonus orgy. Days before filing for bankruptcy, the scandal-ridden company rewarded some executives with million-dollar bonuses as laid-off workers were denied severance packages. [Salon.com]