December 19, 2000 -
How
Carnivore works - By: Thomas C Greene in
Washington, The Register, The FBI's notorious
Internet traffic sniffer Carnivore includes a handy,
idiot-proof GUI interface enabling nosey Feds to capture
and examine a broad range of what passes through, from
headers alone to full-bore content retrieval, which is
pictured in the Justice Department's final assessment
from the IIT Research Institute and the Illinois
Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law (IITRI).
The 'IP addresses' field conveniently accepts settings
for particular IPs or IP ranges; and the 'protocols'
field accepts settings enabling Feds to choose among TCP
(transmission control protocol), UDP (user datagram
protocol) and ICMP (Internet control message protocol)
retrieval, each one separately configurable for 'full
retrieval', 'pen mode' (headers only) and 'off'...
September 09, 2000 -
AltaVista
To Lay Off Employees - PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) The
layoffs, among the largest in the Internet industry this
year, will be the second round for the Palo Alto-based
company. It laid off 40 employees in May. The new layoffs,
announced Friday, will affect primarily employees who
oversee news and message boards...
December 31, 2000 - Buzzwords:
Corporate BS
- Corporations throw around buzz
words like candy on Halloween. And they're just as good
for you. Read my guide to learn what companies really
mean when they talk about "full service end-to-end
solutions." from
ZDNET, Click for more.
December 19, 2000 - Jails:
America's Mental Institutions - From Minnesota
Public Radio, In the early 1840's, crusading prison reformer
Dorothea Dix wrote a scathing report to the Massachusetts
legislature:
"I proceed, Gentlemen, briefly to call
your attention to the state of Insane Persons confined
within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars,
stalls, pens: Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed
into obedience!"
December 15, 2000 -
COREL
TO SAY 'ADIOS' TO LINUX - ZDNET, Industry sources say Linux Global Partners has signed
a letter of intent to buy Corel's Linux division for $5
million...
October 26, 2000 - Salt Lake conducts gas experiments - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - In what sounds like something out of "The X-Files," scientists are releasing gas on downtown Salt Lake City in experiments aimed at preparing for the possibility of a terrorist attack. By releasing tiny amounts of a safe gas called sulfur
hexafluoride, they are trying to understand the risk of chemical or biological attacks on urban areas. The gas is released on a street corner from a pressurized cylinder with a fan. The experiments could be useful for security during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake. Scientists chose Salt Lake because its mountain-rimmed basin is vulnerable to weather inversions that trap pollutants near the ground. That could make a chemical attack even more dangerous. Scientists funded by the Energy Department have been joined here by members of the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Sixty environmental experts from government labs and universities are using portable weather stations to measure the tracer gas as it blows over and around the city's tallest buildings.
October 26, 2000 - Update: 3 bodies recovered from sub -
MURMANSK, Russia (AP) - Laboring in the frigid murk of the Barents Sea on Wednesday, divers found and removed the first bodies from the wreckage of the sunken nuclear submarine
Kursk, Russian officials said. The bodies of three crew members were found several hours after two Russian divers entered the submarine, where 118 sailors died on Aug. 12. The remains were taken from the wreckage and placed in a special container, which would raise them to the surface with the divers, Northern Fleet Chief of Staff Mikhail Motsak said. A team of Russian and Norwegian divers worked for five days to enter the submarine. The bodies were found after the team finished cutting the first hole in the thick double hull of the
Kursk, Motsak said. Officials have said there is virtually no chance of recovering all the dead: Many were probably pulverized by a massive explosion that tore through the
Kursk. Russia went forward with the perilous, complicated and costly recovery mission despite military funding problems and the fear that divers could die in the attempt to slice through the damaged hull and enter the
Kursk, 356 feet below the surface.
October 25, 2000 - U.S. gov't posts record 2000 surplus - WASHINGTON (AP) - Flush with tax revenues from a booming economy, the federal government posted a record $237 billion surplus for the budget year that ended in September, the Clinton administration announced Tuesday. It marked the third straight year of surpluses, something that hasn't happened since the late 1940s. Social Security taxes provided nearly $150 billion of the surplus. "This is the third surplus in a row - the first time our nation has done that in 51 years, since 1949 when Harry Truman was president," Clinton said on the South Lawn during an event to push his education initiatives. The official announcement of the 2000 surplus comes only two weeks before voters elect a new president. A major point of contention between Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the Republicans' choice, has been what should be done with surpluses that are projected to total $4.6 trillion over the next decade.
December 04, 2000 - HOW
TO BUY SAFELY ONLINE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON - You're a
savvy online buyer. But do you know the right tricks so you
won't get burned? I've got seven tips to protect you this
holiday season -- some you might not have heard...
October 25, 2000 - Campus crime statistics put online - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The government is putting campus crime statistics for 6,700 colleges and universities on the Internet, but making realistic comparisons among schools may be nearly impossible. Federal law has required campuses to keep track of crimes for the past 10 years. It stipulates schools must disclose violent crimes, burglaries and auto thefts on campus and arrests for liquor, drug and weapons violations. The law was amended in 1998 to require the reports be available on the Internet. As of Tuesday, the deadline for schools to submit statistics for the last three years, information from 4,200 schools was posted, and data from other schools was in the process of being entered, Glickman said. The Web site,
http://www.ope.ed.gov/security, allows users to call up reports on colleges one at a time.
October 25, 2000 -
Indian massacre site to get memorial -
DENVER (AP) - The scores of American Indians killed in a
U.S. Army massacre 136 years ago will be memorialized under
legislation sponsored by a descendant of the victims and
awaiting President Clinton's signature. The bill was passed
by voice vote Monday in the House and by the Senate earlier.
"Fewer than 5% of all the bills that are introduced
each year become law. The fact that this one did in a matter
of weeks is a testament to the overwhelming acknowledgment
by Americans that we are better than our past," Sen.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo., said. Campbell's ancestors
were among the more than 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians
who died Nov. 29, 1864, when nearly 1,000 men under the
command of Col. John M. Chivington surrounded hundreds of
Indians camped on the banks of the creek. One soldier, Capt.
Silas Soule, later described to Congress the gruesome scene
where troops slaughtered Cheyenne and Arapaho women,
children and elderly men. "It was hard to see little
children on their knees have their brains beat out by men
professing to be civilized," wrote Soule, whose words
were retold by Campbell this summer in hearings on creating
the memorial.
December 08, 2000 - Planet Project
- From November 15 - December 7, the Planet Project made
history by becoming the largest poll, reaching people from
more countries and cultures than has ever been attempted.
1.2 million people from more than 250 countries took the
poll, answering questions about what it's like to be a human
being at the beginning of the millennium. The poll, which
was Internet-based but also attempted to include the voices
of people not normally connected to the Internet, discovered
surprising differences as well as similarities among the
planet's inhabitants...
December 04, 2000 - Apartments
Go to Highest Web Bidder - Verne
Kopytoff, Chronicle Staff Writer, The apartment
market in the Bay Area is so tight that some prospective
tenants try to enhance their chances of winning a coveted
flat by bribing the landlord. Hoping to be chosen ahead of
the other applicants, they offer the landlord gifts or cash.
At least that's how the story goes. Now, a few companies are
trying to formalize such clandestine apartment sweepstakes.
They are auctioning apartments online to whoever offers to
pay the highest rent, but few people so far seem willing to
participate, and tenant advocacy groups criticize the
exercise as disturbing...
December 04, 2000 - Experts:
Carnivore review limited - By Robert
Lemos, ZDNet News, Five security industry leaders
say that an independent review of the FBI surveillance
system failed to examine critical issues. , A who's who
among corporate and academic security researchers on Monday
criticized a government-funded review of the FBI's Carnivore
Internet surveillance system as "limited" and
"inadequate..."
