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walktalker · 17-08-01, 04:08 PM

Pentagon Hides Behind Onion Wraps
Onions may be the secret ingredient in protecting the Pentagon's classified information. During an afternoon presentation at the Usenix Security conference on Thursday, a researcher at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory described a technology known as "Onion Routing," which preserves anonymity by wrapping the identity of users in onion-like layers. "Public networks are vulnerable to traffic analysis. Packet headers identify recipients, and packet routes can be tracked," said Paul Syverson, who works at the NRL's Center for High Assurance Computer Systems. "Even encrypted data exposes the identity of the communicating parties."
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46126,00.html

Does XP Have Firewall or Not?
A promotional website for Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Windows XP operating system said it would offer the same protection from viruses and hackers that major corporations use. Not so, said a Microsoft executive who had the reference removed from the website after the Associated Press questioned it. "I'm sure that was an unintentional overexuberance there," said Mark Croft, manager for the new Windows product due in stores in October. Croft said Microsoft's plan to add firewall software, designed to protect Internet surfers from hackers, "is a good step from having nothing" but it is not the full-fledged protection found in firewall products sold separately.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46144,00.html

Wireless App Helps Putt Around
The official golf rules clearly state that a player is not allowed to "use any artificial device or unusual equipment, which might assist him in making a stroke or in his play; or for the purpose of gauging or measuring distance or conditions, which might affect his play." If a player breaks the rule, he is disqualified from the match, the rule states. But not everyone is a stickler for rules. Approximately 600 of the 17,108 golf courses in the United States have implemented GPS technology to "enhance" the golfing experience of their visitors, while several other courses are considering following suit. There are currently about 26.7 million recreational golf players in the United States, according to the National Golf Foundation. So, there are thousands, if not millions, of serious rule breakers.
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,46037,00.html

Staking Claim to Your DNA

For anyone who has ever paid to name a star, the DNA Copyright Institute has an offer that could be hard to refuse. For $1,500, the company will take a sample of your DNA, create a genetic profile, enter the results into a database and send you a "very, very, very nice plaque," said the company's president and CEO Andre Crump. Customers don't actually get a copyright from the U.S. Copyright Office. Rather, Crump said what they'll receive is ammunition for a lawsuit should they suspect they've been cloned against their will.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,46125,00.html

South Africa Weighs Police Spy Law
South Africa is about to approve a wiretapping law that bans private citizens from eavesdropping but hands police broad surveillance powers. Last month, South Africa's cabinet quietly agreed to the Interception and Monitoring Bill, which orders Internet providers and telephone companies to create "monitoring centers" for police, and forwarded it to the parliament for ratification. The legislation, which has prompted an outcry among the country's Internet users, also restricts privacy-protecting encryption products, bans anonymous Internet access, and allows law enforcement to conduct surveillance with minimal oversight.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46124,00.html

Relevant Info on Search Engines
Google, Lycos, Yahoo, HotBot and AltaVista are the first five sites you get back if you type "search engine" into Google. Now, that's a rather predictable result: These are the engines that everyone has heard of. They're old, established, mostly pretty good, and they're very popular. But that's not the whole story of search. Scan down the Google results and you'll notice that mixed in with search engines that are popular -- such as Excite or AskJeeves -- there are a few that have funny names and are less than well-known. There's one called Dogpile that promises "all results, no mess." Another is Ah-Ha, which only returns "the good stuff." Ordinarily, this might not sound like a big deal -- there are unheard-of companies all over the Web. But what's weird is that here at the Search Engine Strategies Conference, everybody seems to be talking about these obscure engines.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46127,00.html

Emap's email promo backfires
The publishing giant, Emap, has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority over a promotional email that appeared to accuse its recipients of accessing internet porn. The email was designed to promote MaxPower, a car show organised by Emap. It accused its unwitting targets of accessing "material of a violent, sexually explicit or immoral nature" and went on to warn that full details of the supposed crime had been passed to the police. "If criminal proceedings result, you will shortly be informed of this in writing," it continued, before explaining the recipient could appeal against the charges by clicking on an internet link. When accessed, the link showed an advert for the Maxpower car show. The recipients of the email complained it had caused undue fear and distress because it had been presented as an official document.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/advertis...536977,00.html

Cell phone radiation -- safer than a tan?
If you stick a light-emitting chip at the back of your mobile phone to reduce your exposure to radiation, you might want to consider using a hands-free kit instead. According to Stephen Chong, Singapore's Health Sciences Authority (HSA) director of Centre for Radiation Protection, the hands-free kit is the "only effective device" recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in reducing mobile phone users' exposure to radiation. Light-emitting devices are currently available from mobile phone accessory shops all over the world. They are commonly known as "radiation absorbing earpieces", among other terms. One user, Paul Teo, said he was convinced into buying the chip when a shop attendent claimed that the device would reduce his radiation exposure by as much as 30 percent as it "converts" radiowave into light energy.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Taming the Web
"Information wants to be free." "The Internet can't be controlled." We've heard it so often that we sometimes take for granted that it's true. But THE INTERNET CAN BE CONTROLLED, and those who argue otherwise are hastening the day when it will be controlled too much, by the wrong people, and for the wrong reasons.
http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep01/mann.asp

The Once and Future Nanomachine
Among the promised fruits of nanotechnology, small machines have always stood out. Their attraction is straightforward. Large machines--airplanes, submarines, robotic welders, toaster ovens -- are unquestionably useful. If one could take the same ideas used to design these devices and apply them to machines that were a tiny fraction of their size, who knows what they might be able to do? Imagining two types of small machines -- one analogous to an existing machine, the second entirely new -- has captured broad attention. The first is a nanoscale submarine, with dimensions of only a few billionths of a meter -- the length of a few tens or hundreds of atoms. This machine might, so the argument goes, be useful in medicine by navigating through the blood, seeking out diseased cells and destroying them.
http://www.sciam.com/2001/0901issue/0901whitesides.html

Mobile phone translator service unveiled
If you are puzzled when the German waiter asks you: "Was möchten Sie?" all you have to do is to reach for your mobile phone. Not only will the phone tell you that the waiter is asking you what you want, it will even translate your order into German. The system, called Verbmobil, can translate spoken English, German, Japanese and Chinese almost instantaneously. It operates over a standard mobile phone network - you just dial a number. Verbmobil, the product of a $90-million research programme, was demonstrated in Seattle last week. "It's 90 per cent accurate," says Wolfgang Wahlster from the artificial intelligence research institute DFKI in Saarbrücken, Germany. "We have checked it against 25,000 translation tasks." It is also quick. The delay in translation is no more than a few milliseconds.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991161

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17-08-01, 04:08 PM	#2
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Thou shalt read the following Pentagon Hides Behind Onion Wraps Onions may be the secret ingredient in protecting the Pentagon's classified information. During an afternoon presentation at the Usenix Security conference on Thursday, a researcher at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory described a technology known as "Onion Routing," which preserves anonymity by wrapping the identity of users in onion-like layers. "Public networks are vulnerable to traffic analysis. Packet headers identify recipients, and packet routes can be tracked," said Paul Syverson, who works at the NRL's Center for High Assurance Computer Systems. "Even encrypted data exposes the identity of the communicating parties." http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46126,00.html Does XP Have Firewall or Not? A promotional website for Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Windows XP operating system said it would offer the same protection from viruses and hackers that major corporations use. Not so, said a Microsoft executive who had the reference removed from the website after the Associated Press questioned it. "I'm sure that was an unintentional overexuberance there," said Mark Croft, manager for the new Windows product due in stores in October. Croft said Microsoft's plan to add firewall software, designed to protect Internet surfers from hackers, "is a good step from having nothing" but it is not the full-fledged protection found in firewall products sold separately. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46144,00.html Wireless App Helps Putt Around The official golf rules clearly state that a player is not allowed to "use any artificial device or unusual equipment, which might assist him in making a stroke or in his play; or for the purpose of gauging or measuring distance or conditions, which might affect his play." If a player breaks the rule, he is disqualified from the match, the rule states. But not everyone is a stickler for rules. Approximately 600 of the 17,108 golf courses in the United States have implemented GPS technology to "enhance" the golfing experience of their visitors, while several other courses are considering following suit. There are currently about 26.7 million recreational golf players in the United States, according to the National Golf Foundation. So, there are thousands, if not millions, of serious rule breakers. http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,46037,00.html Staking Claim to Your DNA For anyone who has ever paid to name a star, the DNA Copyright Institute has an offer that could be hard to refuse. For $1,500, the company will take a sample of your DNA, create a genetic profile, enter the results into a database and send you a "very, very, very nice plaque," said the company's president and CEO Andre Crump. Customers don't actually get a copyright from the U.S. Copyright Office. Rather, Crump said what they'll receive is ammunition for a lawsuit should they suspect they've been cloned against their will. http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,46125,00.html South Africa Weighs Police Spy Law South Africa is about to approve a wiretapping law that bans private citizens from eavesdropping but hands police broad surveillance powers. Last month, South Africa's cabinet quietly agreed to the Interception and Monitoring Bill, which orders Internet providers and telephone companies to create "monitoring centers" for police, and forwarded it to the parliament for ratification. The legislation, which has prompted an outcry among the country's Internet users, also restricts privacy-protecting encryption products, bans anonymous Internet access, and allows law enforcement to conduct surveillance with minimal oversight. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46124,00.html Relevant Info on Search Engines Google, Lycos, Yahoo, HotBot and AltaVista are the first five sites you get back if you type "search engine" into Google. Now, that's a rather predictable result: These are the engines that everyone has heard of. They're old, established, mostly pretty good, and they're very popular. But that's not the whole story of search. Scan down the Google results and you'll notice that mixed in with search engines that are popular -- such as Excite or AskJeeves -- there are a few that have funny names and are less than well-known. There's one called Dogpile that promises "all results, no mess." Another is Ah-Ha, which only returns "the good stuff." Ordinarily, this might not sound like a big deal -- there are unheard-of companies all over the Web. But what's weird is that here at the Search Engine Strategies Conference, everybody seems to be talking about these obscure engines. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46127,00.html Emap's email promo backfires The publishing giant, Emap, has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority over a promotional email that appeared to accuse its recipients of accessing internet porn. The email was designed to promote MaxPower, a car show organised by Emap. It accused its unwitting targets of accessing "material of a violent, sexually explicit or immoral nature" and went on to warn that full details of the supposed crime had been passed to the police. "If criminal proceedings result, you will shortly be informed of this in writing," it continued, before explaining the recipient could appeal against the charges by clicking on an internet link. When accessed, the link showed an advert for the Maxpower car show. The recipients of the email complained it had caused undue fear and distress because it had been presented as an official document. http://media.guardian.co.uk/advertis...536977,00.html Cell phone radiation -- safer than a tan? If you stick a light-emitting chip at the back of your mobile phone to reduce your exposure to radiation, you might want to consider using a hands-free kit instead. According to Stephen Chong, Singapore's Health Sciences Authority (HSA) director of Centre for Radiation Protection, the hands-free kit is the "only effective device" recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in reducing mobile phone users' exposure to radiation. Light-emitting devices are currently available from mobile phone accessory shops all over the world. They are commonly known as "radiation absorbing earpieces", among other terms. One user, Paul Teo, said he was convinced into buying the chip when a shop attendent claimed that the device would reduce his radiation exposure by as much as 30 percent as it "converts" radiowave into light energy. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Taming the Web "Information wants to be free." "The Internet can't be controlled." We've heard it so often that we sometimes take for granted that it's true. But THE INTERNET CAN BE CONTROLLED, and those who argue otherwise are hastening the day when it will be controlled too much, by the wrong people, and for the wrong reasons. http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep01/mann.asp The Once and Future Nanomachine Among the promised fruits of nanotechnology, small machines have always stood out. Their attraction is straightforward. Large machines--airplanes, submarines, robotic welders, toaster ovens -- are unquestionably useful. If one could take the same ideas used to design these devices and apply them to machines that were a tiny fraction of their size, who knows what they might be able to do? Imagining two types of small machines -- one analogous to an existing machine, the second entirely new -- has captured broad attention. The first is a nanoscale submarine, with dimensions of only a few billionths of a meter -- the length of a few tens or hundreds of atoms. This machine might, so the argument goes, be useful in medicine by navigating through the blood, seeking out diseased cells and destroying them. http://www.sciam.com/2001/0901issue/0901whitesides.html Mobile phone translator service unveiled If you are puzzled when the German waiter asks you: "Was möchten Sie?" all you have to do is to reach for your mobile phone. Not only will the phone tell you that the waiter is asking you what you want, it will even translate your order into German. The system, called Verbmobil, can translate spoken English, German, Japanese and Chinese almost instantaneously. It operates over a standard mobile phone network - you just dial a number. Verbmobil, the product of a $90-million research programme, was demonstrated in Seattle last week. "It's 90 per cent accurate," says Wolfgang Wahlster from the artificial intelligence research institute DFKI in Saarbrücken, Germany. "We have checked it against 25,000 translation tasks." It is also quick. The delay in translation is no more than a few milliseconds. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991161 More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies