Columnists’ corner: “It always starts innocently enough,” Jon Udell explains, referring to the slippery slope of building free software from source. “Now admittedly, most of the issues I ran into were Mac-related…I can almost understand how some folks throw away OS X and install Linux on Apple hardware — almost, but not quite.” Security: Wells Fargo and AOL join the fight, Symantec’s anti-phishing brigade, that is. The security vendor is revamping its Phish Report Network with a new design and a number of new partners. Test center review: Hewlett-Packard’s 4730mfp multi-function printer is low on frills, but compensates by delivering ease-of-use at a nice price. “Overall, this simple, modestly priced new color MFP achieves what HP designed it to do. It can’t print or copy larger document sizes, and it won’t take Kinko’s by storm, but it offers a solid package for a small, busy workgroup,” writes Dan Littman. The news beat: Microsoft is entering the social networking space with a new company spun out of Microsoft IP ventures and named Wallop. A group launches a campaign to destroy IE, and plan to tap Google’s reward of $1 for Firefox referrals. And Oracle details an add-on, Database Vault, that it says will provide users with more control over how data is accessed. Technology Industry