ACM TechNews - Wednesday, March 5, 2003

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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 465
Date: March 5, 2003

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Top Stories for Wednesday, March 5, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html

"Major Internet Vulnerability Discovered in E-Mail Protocol"
"Europe Hacker Laws Could Make Protest a Crime"
"Hello, Tech Designers? This Stuff Is Too Small"
"Keynoter Presents an Exercise in Imagination"
"Klez Won't Stop Making Net Rounds"
"Time for a New Internet Protocol?"
"New System Recovers and Reuses Electronic Wastes"
"Tangled Threesome Opens Door to Quantum Computer"
"Scientists Question Electronic Voting"
"Bush's Cyberstrategery"
"Cyber-Warfare: Latest Weapon in Military Arsenal"
"Quantum Computing Catches the Bus"
"Now Complete, Grid Computing Spec Is Proposed"
"Inching Toward Mobile IM"
"Serial SCSI Promises Faster I/O in Servers"
"Knotty Calculations"
"Taking a Look at TTS"

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"Major Internet Vulnerability Discovered in E-Mail Protocol"
Fixing a major buffer overflow vulnerability in the
sendmail mail transfer agent (MTA) has been the goal
of intense, clandestine collaboration between the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the White ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item1

"Europe Hacker Laws Could Make Protest a Crime"
The justice ministers of the European Union approved
legislation last week designed to prevent computer
hacking and the proliferation of computer viruses,
but legal experts warn that they could also legalize ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item2

"Hello, Tech Designers? This Stuff Is Too Small"
As technology gadgets such as cell phones, PDAs, and
digital cameras continue shrinking in size, usability
complaints are growing in number and volume.
Technology designers such as Dennis Boyle of Ideo are ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item3

"Keynoter Presents an Exercise in Imagination"
Philips Research Laboratories' science program
director Emile Aarts delivered a keynote speech at
the Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE)
conference in Munich in which he reported on the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item4

"Klez Won't Stop Making Net Rounds"
The Klez email virus continues to linger some 11
months after it was first spotted, and it remains at
the top of most antivirus companies' threat lists.
SecurityFocus columnist George Smith says Klez's ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item5

"Time for a New Internet Protocol?"
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) offers significant
advantages over the current IPv4 standard, including
greater IP address space and end-to-end security and
configuration preferences that address ever-growing ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item6

"New System Recovers and Reuses Electronic Wastes"
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology
have developed a "reverse production" system in which
all the materials contained in electronic waste such
as discarded computers and monitors are reclaimed and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item7

"Tangled Threesome Opens Door to Quantum Computer"
Physicists at the University of Michigan on Tuesday
announced that they have successfully entangled three
electrons, which represents a significant step toward
the development of a quantum computer.  Professor ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item8

"Scientists Question Electronic Voting"
A debate is brewing over whether Santa Clara County,
Calif., should make the transition to touch-screen
voting, or opt instead for a digital balloting
solution that leaves a paper trail to ensure the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item9

"Bush's Cyberstrategery"
Brendan Koerner writes that the White House's
National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace is overblown,
and its promotion by government IT experts only
serves to continue the practice of raising alarms on ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item10

"Cyber-Warfare: Latest Weapon in Military Arsenal"
President Bush reportedly signed an order last July
for the government to concoct a cyber-warfare
strategy the military would use to aid battlefield
tactics and disrupt the enemy's communications ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item11

"Quantum Computing Catches the Bus"
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
researchers have devised a way to more quickly and
accurately link components in future quantum
computers.  These links are analogous to the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item12

"Now Complete, Grid Computing Spec Is Proposed"
While actual implementations of grid standards are
few, many such protocols are being developed through
groups such as the Global Grid Forum.  Sun
Microsystems, Intel, and a host of other vendors ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item13

"Inching Toward Mobile IM"
If mobile instant messaging is to become a killer
app, carriers' delivery systems must be compatible,
and a number of deals have been made to deploy IM
interoperability between mobile communications ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item14

"Serial SCSI Promises Faster I/O in Servers"
The new serial SCSI specification is set for approval
by the second quarter of this year, according to the
International Committee for Information Technology
Standards' T10 technical committee.  Maxtor and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item15

"Knotty Calculations"
California Institute of Technology physicist Alexei
Kitaev and Microsoft Research mathematician Michael
Freedman proposed in a February paper that knot
theory can be used to close the gap between quantum ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item16

"Taking a Look at TTS"
At the SpeechTEK 2002 conference, 10 vendors related
how well their text to speech (TTS) systems were able
to vocalize the following text sentence:  "From
Laurel Canyon Blvd., turn left onto Mulholland Dr.; ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0305w.html#item17


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