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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 516
Date: July 7, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, July 7, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Hackers Limit Disruption to Small Internet Sites"
"Government Prying, the Good Kind"
"PC Manufacturers Feel Pressure to Recycle"
"Committees Are Useful and Very Efficient--Well, in the Tech World"
"Who's Watching You Surf?"
"Just Between You and Me..."
"Blogs in the Workplace"
"Spam-Bot Tests Flunk the Blind"
"Study Reveals Net's Parts"
"Web Privacy Services Complicate Feds' Job"
"White-Collar Sweatshops"
"Fight Spam With the DNS, Not the CIA"
"With a Nudge or Vibration, Game Reality Reverberates"
"Linux Creator an Open Source"
"Reaching Through the Net to Touch"
"New Web Tool to Improve Multimedia Surfing"
"Wi-Fi: Security for the Masses"
"Another Digit, Another Deadline"
"Rethinking PKI"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"Hackers Limit Disruption to Small Internet Sites"
Hundreds of small Web sites around the world were damaged in a
coordinated hacker attack Sunday, just as some security experts
had warned last week. However, damage from the attacks was
mitigated by a faction of hackers who attempted to prevent the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item1
"Government Prying, the Good Kind"
One argument goes that as the government feels entitled to
monitor the affairs of American citizens, so too are Americans
entitled to keep tabs on government activities; this reasoning is
illustrated by Government Information Awareness (GIA), a Web site ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item2
"PC Manufacturers Feel Pressure to Recycle"
With California's legislature considering passage of a law that
would require computer manufacturers to take responsibility for
recycling half of all their equipment by 2005 and 90 percent by
the end of the decade, Hewlett-Packard and other PC makers are ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item3
"Committees Are Useful and Very Efficient--Well, in the Tech World"
Committees in general have acquired a bad reputation, but this
negative image should not extend to the technology sector, where
many advances--including the new Serial ATA PC disk-drive
connection system--are the result of committee standards-setting, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item4
"Who's Watching You Surf?"
Certain privacy advocates are concerned that the Department of
Justice is keeping its exact figures on how many telephone and
email wiretaps it is carrying out a secret under the auspices of
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), while ACLU ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item5
"Just Between You and Me..."
Quantum cryptography projects in Europe have set the technology
for commercial release in less than three years. Quantum theory
provides a long-sought way to securely transmit the one-time
key-stream first devised by U.S. Army cryptologist Joseph ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item6
"Blogs in the Workplace"
There is growing interest among businesses, educational
institutions, and government agencies to use Web logs (blogs)
rather than email for internal communications. Community Connect
director of operations Nicholas Tang uses blogs to coordinate ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item7
"Spam-Bot Tests Flunk the Blind"
Yahoo!, Microsoft, VeriSign, and other major ISPs are using a
technique designed to block software bots' attempts to sign up
for online email accounts that spammers can employ to distribute
bulk commercial email, as well as harvest the Internet addresses ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item8
"Study Reveals Net's Parts"
Researchers have discovered that the Internet's elementary
structure is modular, and determined by the number of nodes
(sites) that connect to a given node. The team, based at
Denmark's Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Norway's ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item9
"Web Privacy Services Complicate Feds' Job"
Increased government surveillance has spurred public interest in
online privacy services such as Anonymizer and Germany-based
Steganos, two of the most popular such services. CNET Networks
reports downloads for privacy services applications from its ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item10
"White-Collar Sweatshops"
Laid-off U.S. high-tech workers are disheartened by employers
bringing in foreign workers on H-1B visas and outsourcing IT
operations to overseas labor; not only are more critical
white-collar positions such as programming and software ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item11
"Fight Spam With the DNS, Not the CIA"
Shenick Software Systems software engineer John Fitzgibbon puts
forward a proposal to close a loophole in the Domain Name System
(DNS) so that only outbound mail servers with legitimate DNS MX
records can send email, a strategy that may help hobble the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item12
"With a Nudge or Vibration, Game Reality Reverberates"
The science of haptics, pioneered by the military and later the
automotive and medical sectors to develop technologies that give
users the ability to "feel" remote or virtual objects through an
electronic interface, is finding its way into the entertainment ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item13
"Linux Creator an Open Source"
Linux creator Linus Torvalds says in an interview with Mercury
News that he believes the SCO suit against IBM is not valid and
that should be apparent given the transparency of open-source
development. The basis of the suit, according to Torvalds, is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item14
"Reaching Through the Net to Touch"
University at Buffalo researchers recently disclosed that they
have created a haptic system that allows one person to feel the
tactile sensations experienced by another over the Internet. A
team led by UB Virtual Reality Lab director Thenkurussi Kesavadas ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item15
"New Web Tool to Improve Multimedia Surfing"
Annodex software developed by Australia-based CSIRO Mathematical
and Information Sciences purports to facilitate more interactive
Web surfing by making multimedia files directly accessible and
searchable. The software, which enables any section within a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item16
"Wi-Fi: Security for the Masses"
The strong business value and convenience of having a Wi-Fi
connection is undercut by the ineffectiveness of Wi-Fi's Wired
Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol, which leaves Wi-Fi connections
vulnerable to any hackers in close enough proximity to an access ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item17
"Another Digit, Another Deadline"
U.S. retailers are facing a deadline reminiscent of Y2K in terms
of the work required, though the consequences for missing the
deadline will not cause systems to crash. The Sunrise 2005
deadline was issued by the Uniform Code Council (UCC) in 1997 and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item18
"Rethinking PKI"
Stephen Wilson of SecureNet contends that digital certificates,
as part of a public key infrastructure (PKI), are better suited
as application-specific "electronic business cards" rather than
the one-size-fits-all electronic passports they were originally ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item19
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