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walktalker · 24-05-01, 05:27 PM

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Europe Braced for Privacy Battle
A British civil liberties watchdog called Statewatch grabbed headlines last week with dire predictions that the European Union is about to grant Euro-cops sweeping new surveillance powers. The report portrays Europe on the brink of an Orwellian catastrophe, where all phone, fax, wireless and Internet traffic records would be archived and accessible to law enforcement for seven years. Privacy experts and advocates offered differing opinions on the likelihood that such sweeping surveillance measures could ever be implemented in Europe.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,43928,00.html

Viruses? Feh! Fear the Trojan
There may be a ghost in your machine -- a hidden program known as a Trojan horse -- that allows a malicious hacker to spy on you, ruin your data and computer and, in extreme cases, wreck your business or your life. Attackers have used Trojans to surreptitiously observe the users of infected machines over their webcams, and can also listen to conversations transmitted via the infected computer's microphone.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostruct...,43981,00.html

Betcha Can't Diagnose Just One
It took 10 years and around $1 billion to produce the first draft of the archetypal human genome, or "book of life." But within the next 20 years, individual genomes may be routinely read out on so-called gene chips for a few thousand dollars as the cost of sequencing DNA plummets, industry experts told a technology conference in Cambridge on Thursday.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,44068,00.html

Text messaging could damage your kidneys
British doctors have warned that text messaging could damage people's kidneys. The British Medical Association (BMA) today raised concerns that radio waves from phones could affect internal organs, especially in children. Concerns about speaking into mobile phone handsets have been well documented - the possibility of microwave radiation frying into the brain etc. But the BMA believes that holding phones in front of the body to send text messages may also be dangerous.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/19186.html

The font of all personality
The choice of font used in e-mails and type-written letters could say more about an individual's personality than their creative writing skills. Graphology - the art of studying handwriting - has been used for centuries to try to analyse people's characters, but since the demise of personal handwriting, the experts have moved on to typefaces to look for clues to our identities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1348871.stm

Nanotubes Fall into Line
For a decade, researchers have explored the strange and fascinating molecules called carbon nanotubes. But so far, no one has solved the field's biggest hurdle: growing the tubes they want, where they want them. In a landmark paper in the May 5 issue of Science, a team from the University of Cambridge reports success at exactly that.
http://www.techreview.com/web/mason/mason052401.asp

Smuggling of radioactive materials is rife, new research reveals
The nuclear arms race has left the world with a terrifying legacy: 3 million kilograms of bomb-grade plutonium and uranium. A terrorist would need no more than a few kilograms to make a devastating bomb, so you'd think this material would be kept under guard in secure military installations. You'd think so, but you'd be wrong. Radioactive materials are going missing, border controls are almost non-existent, monitoring equipment doesn't work and smuggling is rife.
http://www.newscientist.com/dailynew...p?id=ns9999782

RecordTV Plans Asset Sell-Off Following MPAA Lawsuit
Forced out of business by a copyright-infringement lawsuit that brought a $50,000 settlement tab, a company that last year launched what it called an "Internet VCR" is selling its remaining assets. RecordTV.com Inc., the creation of Los Angeles-area software developer David Simon, announced this week that it has hired a third party, Y&M Partners, to handled the sale of the software applications behind its former video-capture-and-streaming operation.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166118.html

Cyberattacks Prompt Computer Disaster Drills
The network is down, computer screens are blank and important client data are lost in cyberspace. But relax - this is only a test. Computer disaster drills are growing in popularity as hacker and virus attacks mount, the threat of power outages in California continue and companies store more data on computer networks that are accessed by more people, increasing their vulnerability.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166117.html

Win Media Player hole surrenders your machine
The Windows Media Player ASX (Active Stream Redirector) processor contains an unchecked buffer susceptible to an overrun which could enable an attacker to run arbitrary code on a machine with the victim's level of permission, a Microsoft security bulletin warns. Media Player 6.4 and 7.0 are affected; and earlier, currently-unsupported versions 'may or may not be,' the company says.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19164.html

Microsoft Xbox has lost the console war already - Sony exec
Microsoft's Xbox console is "finished before it even got started". So says Sony's PlayStation supremo, Ken Kutaragi, in an interview with the Financial Times today. Kutaragi's claim is based on two factors. First, the Xbox hardware isn't anywhere near as good as everyone thought it would be, and second, that Microsoft just doesn't fully understand the console business and certainly not the Japanese side of it.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/50/19179.html

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24-05-01, 05:27 PM	#2
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Biscaya ! Let it spin around Europe Braced for Privacy Battle A British civil liberties watchdog called Statewatch grabbed headlines last week with dire predictions that the European Union is about to grant Euro-cops sweeping new surveillance powers. The report portrays Europe on the brink of an Orwellian catastrophe, where all phone, fax, wireless and Internet traffic records would be archived and accessible to law enforcement for seven years. Privacy experts and advocates offered differing opinions on the likelihood that such sweeping surveillance measures could ever be implemented in Europe. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,43928,00.html Viruses? Feh! Fear the Trojan There may be a ghost in your machine -- a hidden program known as a Trojan horse -- that allows a malicious hacker to spy on you, ruin your data and computer and, in extreme cases, wreck your business or your life. Attackers have used Trojans to surreptitiously observe the users of infected machines over their webcams, and can also listen to conversations transmitted via the infected computer's microphone. http://www.wired.com/news/infostruct...,43981,00.html Betcha Can't Diagnose Just One It took 10 years and around $1 billion to produce the first draft of the archetypal human genome, or "book of life." But within the next 20 years, individual genomes may be routinely read out on so-called gene chips for a few thousand dollars as the cost of sequencing DNA plummets, industry experts told a technology conference in Cambridge on Thursday. http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,44068,00.html Text messaging could damage your kidneys British doctors have warned that text messaging could damage people's kidneys. The British Medical Association (BMA) today raised concerns that radio waves from phones could affect internal organs, especially in children. Concerns about speaking into mobile phone handsets have been well documented - the possibility of microwave radiation frying into the brain etc. But the BMA believes that holding phones in front of the body to send text messages may also be dangerous. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/19186.html The font of all personality The choice of font used in e-mails and type-written letters could say more about an individual's personality than their creative writing skills. Graphology - the art of studying handwriting - has been used for centuries to try to analyse people's characters, but since the demise of personal handwriting, the experts have moved on to typefaces to look for clues to our identities. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1348871.stm Nanotubes Fall into Line For a decade, researchers have explored the strange and fascinating molecules called carbon nanotubes. But so far, no one has solved the field's biggest hurdle: growing the tubes they want, where they want them. In a landmark paper in the May 5 issue of Science, a team from the University of Cambridge reports success at exactly that. http://www.techreview.com/web/mason/mason052401.asp Smuggling of radioactive materials is rife, new research reveals The nuclear arms race has left the world with a terrifying legacy: 3 million kilograms of bomb-grade plutonium and uranium. A terrorist would need no more than a few kilograms to make a devastating bomb, so you'd think this material would be kept under guard in secure military installations. You'd think so, but you'd be wrong. Radioactive materials are going missing, border controls are almost non-existent, monitoring equipment doesn't work and smuggling is rife. http://www.newscientist.com/dailynew...p?id=ns9999782 RecordTV Plans Asset Sell-Off Following MPAA Lawsuit Forced out of business by a copyright-infringement lawsuit that brought a $50,000 settlement tab, a company that last year launched what it called an "Internet VCR" is selling its remaining assets. RecordTV.com Inc., the creation of Los Angeles-area software developer David Simon, announced this week that it has hired a third party, Y&M Partners, to handled the sale of the software applications behind its former video-capture-and-streaming operation. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166118.html Cyberattacks Prompt Computer Disaster Drills The network is down, computer screens are blank and important client data are lost in cyberspace. But relax - this is only a test. Computer disaster drills are growing in popularity as hacker and virus attacks mount, the threat of power outages in California continue and companies store more data on computer networks that are accessed by more people, increasing their vulnerability. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166117.html Win Media Player hole surrenders your machine The Windows Media Player ASX (Active Stream Redirector) processor contains an unchecked buffer susceptible to an overrun which could enable an attacker to run arbitrary code on a machine with the victim's level of permission, a Microsoft security bulletin warns. Media Player 6.4 and 7.0 are affected; and earlier, currently-unsupported versions 'may or may not be,' the company says. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19164.html Microsoft Xbox has lost the console war already - Sony exec Microsoft's Xbox console is "finished before it even got started". So says Sony's PlayStation supremo, Ken Kutaragi, in an interview with the Financial Times today. Kutaragi's claim is based on two factors. First, the Xbox hardware isn't anywhere near as good as everyone thought it would be, and second, that Microsoft just doesn't fully understand the console business and certainly not the Japanese side of it. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/50/19179.html The Garfield comic strip of the day ! The Dilbert strip of the day ! The Boondocks strip of the day !