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walktalker · 14-09-01, 04:17 PM

China makes first arrest of Net hacker
Police have arrested a computer student suspected of littering government-run Web sites with pornography in China's first seizure of an Internet hacker, the official Xinhua news agency reported Friday. Police in the central province of Hubei detained 19-year-old Wang Qun last month on suspicion of posting erotica on the homepage of a well-known science Web site, the news agency said. Wang, who used the nickname "Playgirl," had bragged in Internet chatrooms about hacking into more than 30 domestic and overseas Web sites, it said.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Death estimates pass Pearl Harbor, Titanic
The gruesome search through the mass graveyard of the World Trade Center yielded no survivors Thursday, and hopes dimmed for the more than 4,700 missing. President Bush promised to visit New York to "hug and cry" with its shaken citizens. Separately, searchers found the black box of one hijacked airliner in Pennsylvania and received a signal from the black box of the plane that crashed at the Pentagon, officials said Thursday. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the FBI was working on "thousands and thousands of leads" in the investigation of Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Search crews will not be able to retrieve the black box at the Pentagon, which could contain information about the last minutes of the hijacked commercial jetliner, until they are able to enter the collapsed area of the Pentagon, where the plane's fuselage rests.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=ch_mh

Senate OKs FBI Net Spying
FBI agents soon may be able to spy on Internet users legally without a court order. On Thursday evening, two days after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, the Senate approved the "Combating Terrorism Act of 2001," which enhances police wiretap powers and permits monitoring in more situations. The measure, proposed by Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Dianne Feinstein (D-California), says any U.S. attorney or state attorney general can order the installation of the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system. Previously, there were stiffer restrictions on Carnivore and other Internet surveillance techniques. Its bipartisan sponsors argue that such laws are necessary to thwart terrorism.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46852,00.html

Hiding Like Snakes in the E-Grass
The proliferation of cell phones, e-mail and faxes is making the hunt for terrorists increasingly more difficult. Security agencies have literally billions of messages to sift through every day -- many with encryptions that make it impossible for anyone other than the intended recipient to read. "If I dump a stack of hundreds of thousands of pages on your desk and tell you one page is a terrorist threat, it would take forever to get through," said Sayan Chakraborty, vice president of engineering at Sigaba, an e-mail encryption company. "Because one person can't read every message, you have to rely on computers to read messages and computers only do what we tell it to do."
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46817,00.html

Websites Give Casualty Clues
Enough pieces of information can now be mined from the Web and news reports to piece together a rough sketch of Tuesday's terrorist attack's human toll. The likely number of total casualties at the World Trade Center became clearer Thursday when New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said that 4,763 people have been reported missing. Former tenants of the fallen towers have begun using the Web to communicate with employees and their families. The sites provide some idea of which companies have suffered most, and in some cases provide lists, by name, of those still missing. Some sites are difficult to access, presumably due to heavy traffic.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46808,00.html

Security Measures Hit Skycaps
When the FAA announced that curbside check-in at airports would be eliminated, nobody felt worse than the skycaps -- those friendly folks who help passengers with their luggage. While passengers gloomily tried to get on their way at the reopened San Francisco International Airport on Thursday, the skycaps stood idly at their usual curbside posts, remarking on the unjustness of the whole affair. "This is the third time they stopped us," said a clearly upset, elderly skycap at the TWA post. He declined to give his name, but he was generous with his opinions of the Federal Aviation Administration's order: "They did this during the Gulf War, too, I remember. They always pick on the weakest link."
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46823,00.html

Shared Files: Real or Mirage?
What you see on your computer screen is the document or Web page you opened, right? Wrong. In an attempt to protect sensitive information from would-be pilferers, Alchemedia's Mirage 3.0 plays tricks on users -- so what you see is not always what you get. What happens if you want to share confidential information with employees, business partners or vendors -- but you don't want them to copy, save on disk, print, forward or otherwise hold onto the data? Until now, you had only one choice: to encrypt the document. But Mirage 3.0, the newest application from Alchemedia, offers users another option.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,46675,00.html

This is how we know Echelon exists
The European Parliament published its report into the Echelon spying system last week in which it concluded it did exist, was against the law and that the UK had a lot of explaining to do. We've sifted through about 100 of the 194 pages and decided that since no one had yet to officially admit its existence, you may be interested in how the European Parliament decided it was definitely out there. The report admits from the outset that the existence of Echelon can only be proved by gathering together as many clues as possible so that it remains the only possible explanation.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21680.html

Intelligence technology may not stop terrorists
A key question arising from the terrorist atrocities that rocked the US on Tuesday is why the intelligence services failed to provide any prior warning. Some analysts believe that over-reliance on technology-based surveillance may have led to such a catastrophic lack of awareness. Erich Moechel, an Austrian journalist specialising in international intelligence, believes there has been a lack of investment in human intelligence work. "Over the last couple of years, they have been running in the wrong direction," Moechel told New Scientist. "They have concentrated too much on signals intelligence and not human intelligence. Terrorism is essentially low tech."
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991297

Destroyed Paper Documents Could Leave Information Void
The destruction of the World Trade Center, a repository of countless reams of information on companies and individuals, has left some organizations reeling from the potential loss of vast quantities of data. Disaster-recovery experts said Tuesday that most of the largest financial services firms routinely back up data and store it in remote locations, ensuring that the bulk of it survived the attack. But organizations that heavily rely on paper documents and smaller companies that do not routinely back up their information are vulnerable to significant losses.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/co...ogy%5Fcolum n

Computer Giants Up the Ante
Adversaries in the computing world, Microsoft and Apple find themselves in similar positions this season. Both have new versions of their operating systems due out soon. Both of these releases involve thorough revisions of massive amounts of computer code — and both will put a higher degree of stress on your computer if you decide to upgrade. System requirements — that sometimes tricky fine print on the box that tells you whether your computer is good enough to run a program — creep up every year. But the changes in Microsoft's Windows XP and Apple's Mac OS X 10.1 are more substantial than most, and their box specs show it.
http://www.washtech.com/news/software/12478-1.html

Engineered Microbes' Uses Are Many But Their Impact Still Unknown
Twenty years before soybeans were crossed with fish genes and rice was boosted to become a multivitamin, the biotech industry began with bugs. In 1972, when a General Electric scientist engineered bacteria that would eat crude oil, it seemed we might be on the verge of a new age of environmental cleanup. Sprinkle some bacteria and watch oil spills, pesticide slicks and toxic dumps disappear like ice on a salted roadway. But while transgenic or genetically modified crops took off, the microbe industry never quite materialized.
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/bios/

Wind-powered building design revealed
Buildings with integrated wind turbines could generate at least 20 percent of their own energy needs, and perhaps all. They would be more power efficient than ordinary wind farms or solar powered constructions, say UK researchers. A team of aerodynamics engineers at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory's Energy Research Unit, Oxfordshire, UK, has come up with a design for a multi-tower office building or block of flats with wind turbines fitted in between. Curved towers would funnel wind towards the turbines and improve efficiency, they say. Preliminary testing on an seven-metre prototype indicates that the design could be twice as efficient as a stand-alone wind power generator, despite the fact that it does not move to face the wind.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991292

The Astronaut's New Clothes
A lonely figure in a bulky space suit walks slowly across a giant meteorite impact crater. The rocky desert landscape appears cold, dry and hostile — not unlike Mars. In fact, the man is testing the space suit astronauts might wear if they ever go to the Red Planet. The scene is Devon Island in the Canadian high arctic, a place about as close to the desolate setting of Mars as you can get on Earth. The 20-kilometer-wide Haughton Crater on Devon Island, the result of a meteorite impact about 23 million years ago, is the only such impact crater known to lie in a polar desert environment, which makes it the ideal testing ground for Mars mission space suits. NASA has no immediate plans to send a man or woman to the Red Planet. But several companies have been working on a space suit for Mars.
http://www.sciam.com/explorations/20...uit/index.html

DNA Chip Gives Positive ID
For the last five years, DNA chips have been a powerful research tool, holding much promise for future use in clinical settings. These tiny silicon or glass surfaces, covered with thousands of DNA fragments, are used by researchers to discover genes in DNA samples. But still elusive is the holy grail of this technology — a single, fully automated handheld device, or "lab on a chip," that can instantly analyze DNA from a single strand of hair or drop of blood. One company that has taken a big step in that direction is San Diego-based Nanogen.
http://www.techreview.com/web/cameron/cameron091401.asp

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walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	China makes first arrest of Net hacker Police have arrested a computer student suspected of littering government-run Web sites with pornography in China's first seizure of an Internet hacker, the official Xinhua news agency reported Friday. Police in the central province of Hubei detained 19-year-old Wang Qun last month on suspicion of posting erotica on the homepage of a well-known science Web site, the news agency said. Wang, who used the nickname "Playgirl," had bragged in Internet chatrooms about hacking into more than 30 domestic and overseas Web sites, it said. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh Death estimates pass Pearl Harbor, Titanic The gruesome search through the mass graveyard of the World Trade Center yielded no survivors Thursday, and hopes dimmed for the more than 4,700 missing. President Bush promised to visit New York to "hug and cry" with its shaken citizens. Separately, searchers found the black box of one hijacked airliner in Pennsylvania and received a signal from the black box of the plane that crashed at the Pentagon, officials said Thursday. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the FBI was working on "thousands and thousands of leads" in the investigation of Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Search crews will not be able to retrieve the black box at the Pentagon, which could contain information about the last minutes of the hijacked commercial jetliner, until they are able to enter the collapsed area of the Pentagon, where the plane's fuselage rests. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=ch_mh Senate OKs FBI Net Spying FBI agents soon may be able to spy on Internet users legally without a court order. On Thursday evening, two days after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, the Senate approved the "Combating Terrorism Act of 2001," which enhances police wiretap powers and permits monitoring in more situations. The measure, proposed by Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Dianne Feinstein (D-California), says any U.S. attorney or state attorney general can order the installation of the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system. Previously, there were stiffer restrictions on Carnivore and other Internet surveillance techniques. Its bipartisan sponsors argue that such laws are necessary to thwart terrorism. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46852,00.html Hiding Like Snakes in the E-Grass The proliferation of cell phones, e-mail and faxes is making the hunt for terrorists increasingly more difficult. Security agencies have literally billions of messages to sift through every day -- many with encryptions that make it impossible for anyone other than the intended recipient to read. "If I dump a stack of hundreds of thousands of pages on your desk and tell you one page is a terrorist threat, it would take forever to get through," said Sayan Chakraborty, vice president of engineering at Sigaba, an e-mail encryption company. "Because one person can't read every message, you have to rely on computers to read messages and computers only do what we tell it to do." http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46817,00.html Websites Give Casualty Clues Enough pieces of information can now be mined from the Web and news reports to piece together a rough sketch of Tuesday's terrorist attack's human toll. The likely number of total casualties at the World Trade Center became clearer Thursday when New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said that 4,763 people have been reported missing. Former tenants of the fallen towers have begun using the Web to communicate with employees and their families. The sites provide some idea of which companies have suffered most, and in some cases provide lists, by name, of those still missing. Some sites are difficult to access, presumably due to heavy traffic. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46808,00.html Security Measures Hit Skycaps When the FAA announced that curbside check-in at airports would be eliminated, nobody felt worse than the skycaps -- those friendly folks who help passengers with their luggage. While passengers gloomily tried to get on their way at the reopened San Francisco International Airport on Thursday, the skycaps stood idly at their usual curbside posts, remarking on the unjustness of the whole affair. "This is the third time they stopped us," said a clearly upset, elderly skycap at the TWA post. He declined to give his name, but he was generous with his opinions of the Federal Aviation Administration's order: "They did this during the Gulf War, too, I remember. They always pick on the weakest link." http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46823,00.html Shared Files: Real or Mirage? What you see on your computer screen is the document or Web page you opened, right? Wrong. In an attempt to protect sensitive information from would-be pilferers, Alchemedia's Mirage 3.0 plays tricks on users -- so what you see is not always what you get. What happens if you want to share confidential information with employees, business partners or vendors -- but you don't want them to copy, save on disk, print, forward or otherwise hold onto the data? Until now, you had only one choice: to encrypt the document. But Mirage 3.0, the newest application from Alchemedia, offers users another option. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,46675,00.html This is how we know Echelon exists The European Parliament published its report into the Echelon spying system last week in which it concluded it did exist, was against the law and that the UK had a lot of explaining to do. We've sifted through about 100 of the 194 pages and decided that since no one had yet to officially admit its existence, you may be interested in how the European Parliament decided it was definitely out there. The report admits from the outset that the existence of Echelon can only be proved by gathering together as many clues as possible so that it remains the only possible explanation. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21680.html Intelligence technology may not stop terrorists A key question arising from the terrorist atrocities that rocked the US on Tuesday is why the intelligence services failed to provide any prior warning. Some analysts believe that over-reliance on technology-based surveillance may have led to such a catastrophic lack of awareness. Erich Moechel, an Austrian journalist specialising in international intelligence, believes there has been a lack of investment in human intelligence work. "Over the last couple of years, they have been running in the wrong direction," Moechel told New Scientist. "They have concentrated too much on signals intelligence and not human intelligence. Terrorism is essentially low tech." http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991297 Destroyed Paper Documents Could Leave Information Void The destruction of the World Trade Center, a repository of countless reams of information on companies and individuals, has left some organizations reeling from the potential loss of vast quantities of data. Disaster-recovery experts said Tuesday that most of the largest financial services firms routinely back up data and store it in remote locations, ensuring that the bulk of it survived the attack. But organizations that heavily rely on paper documents and smaller companies that do not routinely back up their information are vulnerable to significant losses. http://www.latimes.com/technology/co...ogy%5Fcolum n Computer Giants Up the Ante Adversaries in the computing world, Microsoft and Apple find themselves in similar positions this season. Both have new versions of their operating systems due out soon. Both of these releases involve thorough revisions of massive amounts of computer code — and both will put a higher degree of stress on your computer if you decide to upgrade. System requirements — that sometimes tricky fine print on the box that tells you whether your computer is good enough to run a program — creep up every year. But the changes in Microsoft's Windows XP and Apple's Mac OS X 10.1 are more substantial than most, and their box specs show it. http://www.washtech.com/news/software/12478-1.html Engineered Microbes' Uses Are Many But Their Impact Still Unknown Twenty years before soybeans were crossed with fish genes and rice was boosted to become a multivitamin, the biotech industry began with bugs. In 1972, when a General Electric scientist engineered bacteria that would eat crude oil, it seemed we might be on the verge of a new age of environmental cleanup. Sprinkle some bacteria and watch oil spills, pesticide slicks and toxic dumps disappear like ice on a salted roadway. But while transgenic or genetically modified crops took off, the microbe industry never quite materialized. http://www.sfgate.com/technology/bios/ Wind-powered building design revealed Buildings with integrated wind turbines could generate at least 20 percent of their own energy needs, and perhaps all. They would be more power efficient than ordinary wind farms or solar powered constructions, say UK researchers. A team of aerodynamics engineers at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory's Energy Research Unit, Oxfordshire, UK, has come up with a design for a multi-tower office building or block of flats with wind turbines fitted in between. Curved towers would funnel wind towards the turbines and improve efficiency, they say. Preliminary testing on an seven-metre prototype indicates that the design could be twice as efficient as a stand-alone wind power generator, despite the fact that it does not move to face the wind. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991292 The Astronaut's New Clothes A lonely figure in a bulky space suit walks slowly across a giant meteorite impact crater. The rocky desert landscape appears cold, dry and hostile — not unlike Mars. In fact, the man is testing the space suit astronauts might wear if they ever go to the Red Planet. The scene is Devon Island in the Canadian high arctic, a place about as close to the desolate setting of Mars as you can get on Earth. The 20-kilometer-wide Haughton Crater on Devon Island, the result of a meteorite impact about 23 million years ago, is the only such impact crater known to lie in a polar desert environment, which makes it the ideal testing ground for Mars mission space suits. NASA has no immediate plans to send a man or woman to the Red Planet. But several companies have been working on a space suit for Mars. http://www.sciam.com/explorations/20...uit/index.html DNA Chip Gives Positive ID For the last five years, DNA chips have been a powerful research tool, holding much promise for future use in clinical settings. These tiny silicon or glass surfaces, covered with thousands of DNA fragments, are used by researchers to discover genes in DNA samples. But still elusive is the holy grail of this technology — a single, fully automated handheld device, or "lab on a chip," that can instantly analyze DNA from a single strand of hair or drop of blood. One company that has taken a big step in that direction is San Diego-based Nanogen. http://www.techreview.com/web/cameron/cameron091401.asp More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies