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The Nightly Build:
* Along with the Window's updates we [mentioned this morning][8], Microsoft has also released a new [security update for Mac Office 2004][6]. The patch address a vulnerability that could allow attackers to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.
[6]: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/Office2004/Office2004_1134.xml "Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.4 Update"
[8]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/the_morning_reb_8.html "The Morning Reboot Wednesday February 14"
* GMail is finally [open to the public.][7] We're serious this time. It really is. Possibly. I was able to sign up straight from the page and that's all I'm willing to commit to, having been burned by reporting this story twice already. **YMMV**
[7]: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl<mpl=ca_tlsosm<mplcache=2 "Gmail Public"
* ZDNet [reports][1] that the hard drive stolen from the Birmingham VA Medical Center last week may have contained personal information on 535,000 people -- 10 times the amount originally estimated. Yeah that's the same VA folks that announced [increased security measures][2] last year. That worked well. [Via Techdirt][3]
[1]: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=2918 "VA underestimated info on missing hard drive - tenfold"
[2]: http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1974652,00.asp "VA Secretary Announces New Security Measures"
[3]: http://techdirt.com/articles/20070214/064307.shtml "Latest VA Data Breach Worse Than Initially Reported"
* A US Group [wants Canada listed][5] on the infamous blacklist of intellectual property villains, alongside China, Russia and Belize. That group is naturally made of of the RIAA, the MPAA, the BSA, the ESA, which is way too many acronyms in one sentence so we're following BoingBoing's lead and mashing them to just read: [MAFIAA][4]. But remember to sing: Blame Canada, blame Canada! Everybody Now.
[4]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/14/mafiaas_list_of_enem.html "MAFIAA'"
[5]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070214.wblacklist14/BNStory/National/home "U.S. group wants Canada blacklisted over piracy"
* Today's web zen doesn't exist, how zen is that?
[photo credit][11]
[11]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alan-light/213239498/ "Flickr: valentinep"
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