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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 447
Date: January 17, 2003
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Top Stories for Friday, January 17, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Increase in Electronic Attacks Leads to Warning on Iraqi Hackers
and U.S. Safety"
"Justices OK Copyright Extension"
"Senators Vow to Halt 'Data Mining' Project"
"Spam Confab: Hackers to Rescue?"
"Gadget Makers Join the Scramble to Zap the 'Power Gap'"
"WSIS: Delegates Fail to Agree on Open-Source 'Support'"
"Bouncing Signals Push the Limits of Bandwidth"
"NASA, Universities to Launch Nanoelectronics Institute"
"Quantum Bits Need to Catch a Virtual Bus"
"Lack of a Viable Business Model Is Stifling Software Innovation"
"UN Summit Could Spark Net Regulation Talks"
"Senators Introduce Wireless Broadband Bill"
"Grid Computing Good for Business"
"Tech's Future--Smart Dust and Ratbots"
"Feds Seek Public Input on Hacker Sentencing"
"Consumer Electronics Show Panel Addresses E-Waste"
"The Two Faces of Linux"
"Will Innovation Flourish in the Future?"
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"Increase in Electronic Attacks Leads to Warning on Iraqi Hackers
and U.S. Safety"
An evaluation prepared last week by the FBI's National
Infrastructure Protection Center warns that a national security
crisis could be looming, as evidenced by a recent increase in
electronic attacks on military and government networks. These ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item1
"Justices OK Copyright Extension"
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 this week that a 1998 federal law
extending copyrights for another 20 years was constitutional,
handing a big win to the entertainment industry, which still
reaps large profits from icons and classics that are being ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item2
"Senators Vow to Halt 'Data Mining' Project"
The Pentagon's Total Information Awareness project aims to build
a database of electronic information on Americans and root out
suspected terrorists via data mining, but this has raised the ire
of civil libertarians as well as members of Congress. In ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item3
"Spam Confab: Hackers to Rescue?"
Hackers are gathering at MIT this week in order to discuss
anti-spam technology, since email spam has become the bane of the
Internet, according to many users. According to a Harris
Interactive survey, 74 percent of respondents favor legislation ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item4
"Gadget Makers Join the Scramble to Zap the 'Power Gap'"
Mobile device manufacturers are struggling to power their
gadgets, to which extra power-hungry features are being added all
the time. Cell phones and handhelds now commonly feature digital
cameras and color screens, for example. But while the need for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item5
"WSIS: Delegates Fail to Agree on Open-Source 'Support'"
Delegates to the Asian Regional Conference, a precursor to the
U.N. World Summit on the Information Society to take place in
December, failed to agree on language "supporting" open-source
software. The final draft instead "encouraged" open-source ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item6
"Bouncing Signals Push the Limits of Bandwidth"
Radio spectrum may not be as constrained as once thought, since
work at Bell Labs has uncovered a signal diffusion method that
can dramatically increase transmission speed and quality. The
Blast technology works on 3G cellular networks and is based on ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item7
"NASA, Universities to Launch Nanoelectronics Institute"
The NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing is a joint
project between the space agency and six universities--Purdue,
Cornell, Yale, the University of California at San Diego, and the
University of Florida. The facility, which will be officially ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item8
"Quantum Bits Need to Catch a Virtual Bus"
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) say that most proposals for a quantum computer lack a key
component--namely, a mechanism that can transfer quantum bits
(qubits) between computer elements. NIST atomic physicist Carl ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item9
"Lack of a Viable Business Model Is Stifling Software Innovation"
Serial software entrepreneur Dave Winer believes Silicon Valley
will no longer serve as a breeding ground for software innovation
because it lacks a business model for funding creativity in
software development. The dotcom bust did not convince venture ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item10
"UN Summit Could Spark Net Regulation Talks"
International Telecommunications Union Secretary General Yoshio
Utsumi hopes an upcoming U.N. summit on the information society
will spur talks on an international framework for intellectual
property rights, tax, law, and individual rights on the Internet. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item11
"Senators Introduce Wireless Broadband Bill"
Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) says the debate over broadband rollout
has so far been limited to the two dominant technologies, cable
and digital subscriber line (DSL), but that alternative
technologies could provide a good solution. His Jumpstart ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item12
"Grid Computing Good for Business"
Commercial interest in grid computing is picking up. The
technology allows companies to share computing resources within
their own firms, as well as with partners outside. Ian Foster,
University of Chicago professor and co-leader of the Globus ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item13
"Tech's Future--Smart Dust and Ratbots"
Smart dust, ratbots, and lily pads are three of nine technologies
that could one day change peoples lives, according to IDC
analysts John Gantz and David Emberely. Ratbots, for example,
may help rats and other creatures send brain messages to a PC ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item14
"Feds Seek Public Input on Hacker Sentencing"
The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) engaged the public
for advice last week on whether prison or probation sentences for
cybercriminals are adequate enough, or should be stronger.
Michael O'Neill of George Mason University Law School says, "We ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item15
"Consumer Electronics Show Panel Addresses E-Waste"
Electronic waste was the big topic of discussion Saturday during
the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The consumer
electronics industry addressed the tough issue of e-waste with a
panel on electronics recycling, which included representatives ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item16
"The Two Faces of Linux"
The increasing popularity of Linux in corporate accounts makes it
a more attractive target for hackers, and experts say the
open-source operating system's security mystique is evaporating
as a result. The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) reports ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item17
"Will Innovation Flourish in the Future?"
MIT physics professor Jerome I. Friedman writes that the future
of basic research, which forms the basis of innovation that
significantly impacts society and the quality of life, may be in
doubt. He cites Walter Brattain, who co-patented the transistor ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0117f.html#item18
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