The Nikkei Industrial Daily reports that this summer Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) will introduce a system that uses the PlayStation2's online capability to strengthen game copyright protection.

With the system, known as DNA-S, game CDs and DVDs will be imprinted with a unique ID. When a user puts the disc into the PlayStation2, the software ID and equipment ID will be verified over a network through an authentication server. Games that are not authenticated will not work.

All your data are belong to us.

Slashdot | PS2 Games to Require Online Authentication.

Yahoo News - Temptation for Surveillance on Rise. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - What if your cable TV converter box can report to marketers the movies, sports and steamy adult shows you like to watch?

What if a portable device that measures how far you've run or walked can phone a Web site about your fitness level, and perhaps suggest exercise products for purchase?

What if any time you visit an airport or attend a sporting event, you must walk past video cameras that can analyze your face and instantly identify you to authorities?

Some of these scenarios are already possible and even happening. Privacy advocates and civil libertarians say the technology is getting so good and cheap that we could be entering an era of surveillance everywhere, privacy nowhere.

Privacy erosion on the Internet over the past year offers just a preview. As gadgets beyond the desktop become a part of our everyday lives, the temptation increases for governments and businesses to use them for surveillance.

The International PGP Home Page. Here you may download the latest freeware PGP version for your platform, whether you want the international or the US variant.

Macworld: PGP Desktop Security 7.0.3.

With the increasing use of portables, removable media, and always-on network connections, more and more of us are beginning to put a premium on security. PGP Desktop Security 7.0.3 is a comprehensive collection of applications, plug-ins, and utilities that can help you to keep your data to yourself. The suite secures files, entire volumes, as well as e-mail, and also provides firewall protection and the ability to set up virtual private networks (VPNs).

PGP (which stands for Pretty Good Privacy) started out as a single, freely available e-mail encryption tool, and while PGP Desktop Security accomplishes that, via plug-ins that work with the major e-mail applications, it's grown, and now includes tools that can do a lot more than encrypt e-mail messages.

Forbes - Forbes.com: Somebody Will Be Watching You Eventually.

Imagine, as you drive, someone somewhere is watching your movement on a map on the Internet. They can tell exactly where you are and at what speed you are traveling. They can see where you've been for the last two weeks. How long you stayed. When you left. Is this cool or creepy? You tell me.

Probably cool if you have a fleet of trucks you need to monitor. So pave the way for @Road (nasdaq: ARDI ). Located in Fremont, Calif., @Road uses the established telecommunications infrastructure to create systems that track and dispatch fleet vehicles, police, ambulances, school buses, cabs and eventually your spouse and kids.

@Road has pieced together a unique system using cell phone packet data networks, global positioning system satellite service and the World Wide Web to make a system that allows, for example, a radio car company to know exactly where each car is driving at any given moment. This is done with the Internet. A dispatcher can simply go to the @Road Web site and a map comes on the screen with all the information presented graphically and downloadable for analysis.

Culture News from Wired News - Inside Russia's Hacking Culture. Security experts were not surprised by the FBI's warning last week that more than 1 million credit card numbers have been stolen from e-commerce websites in the last 12 months by crackers who took advantage of a hole that could have been patched with software that was made available three years ago.

Society of Professional Journalists - SPJ: Freedom of Information Act Resource Center.

Society of Professional Journalists - SPJ Opposes Indiana Legislature's Attempt to Shield Public Officials' E-mail, Internet Files .

INDIANAPOLIS -- An unprecedented bill to revoke Hoosier residents' right to access government officials' e-mail and Internet documents flies in the face of the public interest and should not become law, says the Society of Professional Journalists.

SPJ President Ray Marcano today sent a letter to Indiana Gov. Frank O'Bannon urging him to veto the House Bill 1083, should it pass in the Indiana Senate. The Indiana House of Representatives passed the bill -- introduced by Rep. Jeff Thompson, R-Danville -- Tuesday, March 6, on a 92-1 vote.

"We urge Indiana lawmakers to drop attempts to make e-mails and Internet documents secret," said Marcano assistant managing editor for production at the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News. "E-mail messages have replaced the typewriter as the most essential form of drafting memos and other communications. Blocking e-mails would have the effect of making all communication between public officials confidential. The public might no longer know how public bodies operate, how they reach their decisions, and how they spend public dollars if those discussions are passed in e-mails.

MS-NBC - E-mail encryption use low despite potential for snooping. Elana Kehoe doesn't like the idea of governments and hackers reading her e-mail as it traverses the Internet. So a few weeks ago, she installed a tool to scramble her messages. But she's having trouble using Pretty Good Privacy encryption. She knows of only four other PGP users, including her husband, Brendan. That means everything else goes through regular e-mail, which is as private as sending a postcard.