Theoretically, if I purchase a song from Apple, and then I would like to make that into a ringtone, I have to pay Apple for that right. Where does that money go? I assumed that they were paying a portion of it to a third party for different playing rights.

The issue is moot, of course, since http://www.iringer.net/ is free, which makes my ringtones the same.

The DSS (Defense Security Service), the guys that came up with the wipe standard, updated this June 28, 2007.

Section 54 of this document details the update.

Basically, the deal is that wiping a drive is no longer an option for sensitive or classified material. The media HAS to be physically destroyed.

"Effective immediately, DSS will no longer approve overwriting procedures for the sanitization or downgrading (e.g. release to lower level classified information controls) of IS storage devices (e.g., hard drives) used for classified processing."

Blasphemy