October 05, 2001 -
Flight attendant on American jet - narrated hijacking on cell
phone - Madeline Amy Sweeney, Los Angeles Times,
Washington -- A chilling telephone call from a flight
attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11 details for the
first time the frantic, violent path of the doomed airliner as
hijackers slit the throat of a passenger and stormed the
cockpit...
October 05, 2001 -
Survivability of nuclear plants to be re-examined -
Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer, After initially
playing down the chance that a falling jetliner could disable
or destroy a nuclear power plant, the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission is now planning to study whether a plant could
survive such a disaster...
October 04, 2001 -
Survey: MS licensing rankles customers - By Joe
Wilcox, Special to ZDNet News, Most corporate customers
are unhappy with looming changes in Microsoft
software-licensing programs, and many would consider switching
to competitors' products, according to a survey released
Thursday...
October 05, 2001 -
Tower Wreckage Reveals Clues - By Noah Shachtman,
WireNews, JERSEY CITY, New Jersey - In a scrap yard across
the Hudson River from the fallen twin towers, engineering
professor Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl pores over the 1,500 tons of
twisted, charred steel arriving here each day from the remains
of the World Trade Center like an archaeologist, like a
coroner...
October 05, 2001 -
Altivore - Network ICE is posting a feature-complete version of
Carnivore:
alternative for ISPs,
We are giving ISPs responding to court orders free license to
use Altivore. This means that if the FBI comes in with a search
warrant for the e-mail or full traffic of one of their customers,
the ISP may be able to satisfy the warrant by using Altivore rather
than having to install one of the FBI's secretive "black-boxes".
Network ICE can do nothing to stop legitimate court orders; we can
at least reduce the intrusiveness of this legal process.
narrow the debate
Network ICE feels the privacy debate is extremely important.
Carnivore itself isn't important -- the fact that we allow the
government heavy-handed access to our private data is the real
issue. Recently, a spokesman for a prominent privacy group made the
erroneous claim that Carnivore could not selectively capture a
single person's e-mail and ignore all others. With Altivore, we've
clearly shown (in source-code form) exactly how this is done.
Misunderstanding of the technical issues only dilutes the debate
over the privacy issue.
clarifies Network ICE's
technological advantage
Network ICE makes the most popular and most sophisticated
network monitoring software on the Internet. While our software is
designed to track cr/hacker activity rather than act as a legal
wiretap, the technology is similar to Carnivore. We believe that
Carnivore has made the same technology shortcuts as our competitors
in the area of reassembly, protocol analysis, and dropped packets.
The Altivore source code highlights these deficiencies of these
shortcuts.
NEW!
October 03, 2001 -
FBI Mole Betrayed a Top U.S. Spy - By ERIC
LICHTBLAU, Times Staff Writer, WASHINGTON -- Confessed FBI
spy Robert Philip Hanssen, revealing new secrets about the
damage he did to U.S. national security, has told government
debriefers that he gave the Russians the identity of one of
Washington's most valuable double agents more than two decades
ago, sources said...
October 03, 2001 -
A Cold Look at Chilled Speech
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By Mark Anderson, WiredNews, Oct. 3, 2001, When he finished his
manuscript on copyright protections in the digital age last
Thanksgiving, Siva Vaidhyanathan knew some things would change before
its Oct. 1 publication date. Then came a Tuesday in September...
October 04, 2001 -
Attackers tied to earlier bombings - MSNBC,
U.S. officials say link proves bin Laden role in Sept. 11
rampage... — After declining for weeks to discuss evidence
linking Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network to the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, U.S.
officials for the first time are laying at least some of
their cards on the table. NBC News has learned that a key
point in their efforts to establish a connection is evidence
showing that some of the men suspected of taking part in
last month’s attacks also took part in the bombings of the
USS Cole last year in Yemen and two U.S. embassies in Africa
in 1998 — attacks in which bin Laden has been implicated...
October 02, 2001 -
NSync CD is copy protection "experiment" - Barry
Fox, NewScientist.com, The music industry is now testing
different copy protection systems on mass market chart CDs,
with copies of NSync's Celebrity on the Zomba label being
sold in at least three different versions. Those available
in Germany have draconian protection, a slightly weaker
system is used on the US disk and there is no protection on
the UK version. The only visible clue is small print on the
German release which warns "this CD is not playable on
computers"...
October 04, 2001 -
Zero-Knowledge pulls the mask off - By Robert Lemos,
ZDNet News, The company that pushed encryption and
networking technology to the limits to enhance people's
privacy said Thursday that it has decided to close its
flagship anonymity network and focus on security software for
home users. Security software maker Zero-Knowledge Systems
announced that it would shut down the premium service
component of its Freedom Network, which let people surf the
Internet and send e-mail with almost complete privacy by using
pseudonyms...
October 05, 2001 -
Microsoft IIS miscast as network villain - By Jack
Danahy, WatchGuard Technologies Special to ZDNet,
COMMENTARY-- In a recent report delivered by the Gartner
Group, Vice President and Research Director John Pescatore
advised that enterprises seek alternatives to the Microsoft
IIS platform. After analyzing the recent Code Red and NIMDA
attacks, Gartner believes that their clients should reconsider
their investments in the Microsoft infrastructure. They are
not the first to say so. While concern over these events is
clearly merited, following this advice would prove extremely
costly, and would do little to address the underlying problems
that resulted in the spread of these attacks...
October 11, 2001 -
Glum -- and Getting Glummer - Small-business owners' optimism
-- and their spending plans -- took a deep and sudden downturn
after the terrorist attacks. The terrorist attacks had an
immediate, measurable effect on the outlook of the nation's
small-business owners. The latest monthly survey of
small-company owners by the National Federation of Independent
Business shows a stark contrast in attitude after Sept. 11,
the day of the attacks...
