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Taiwan Has 1,000 Computer Viruses to Fight Cyber War With China Taiwan's military is preparing for cyber warfare with China and has developed about 1,000 computer viruses for that purpose, Agence France-Presse reported, quoting the Liberty Times. ``Should the People's Liberation Army launch electronics warfare against Taiwan, the military, armed with about 1,000 computer viruses, would be able to fight back,'' the paper quoted Defense Ministry official Lin Chin-ching as saying, according to AFP. One of the scenarios considered by Taiwan's Defense Ministry is for China to invade Taiwan's computer systems and alter the outcome of the March presidential polls, AFP said.
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500 at Navy center feeling blue over 'adult' e-mail
An estimated 500 employees, accounting for 10 percent of the Naval Supply Systems Command's headquarters staff in Mechanicsburg, Pa., have been counseled or disciplined for "inappropriate, adult humor" in e-mail messages, NAVSUP spokeswoman Elizabeth H. Van Wye said. Six employees were suspended. The others received verbal or written admonishment or reprimand, she said. In a statement, NAVSUP executive director Larry Glasco said the command has installed software to scan e-mail for unauthorized material. Van Wye identified the program as MIMEsweeper from Content Technologies Inc. of Kirkland, Wash. http://www.gcn.com/breaking-news/000110053754.html
Encryption regs to change
RELAXED ENCRYPTION export laws are expected to be a major focus at the RSA Conference 2000 later this month, which begins just days after the anticipated Jan. 14 announcement of federal edicts to scale back restrictive U.S. encryption laws. At the San Jose, Calif., conference, which runs Jan. 16-20, a "Washington Update Panel" is prepared to deal with a bevy of questions surrounding the legislation, originally slated to be announced on Dec. 14. "I would think that's going to be on everybody's minds," said panel member William Reinsch, the under secretary for export administration at the Department of Commerce. "The differences between the earlier version that was widely criticized [by vendors] and this new one that has been 'cautiously praised' is different in a number of important respects. http://infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/01/10/000110hnrsa.xml
Defense Lab's Computer Sale Risked Security, Probe Finds One of the nation's leading defense laboratories sold one of the world's 100 fastest computers at a bargain-basement price to a U.S. firm controlled by a Chinese citizen in late 1998. Ten months later, fearing that the supercomputer's parts could end up in China, lab officials hurriedly repurchased the machine at nearly three times the sale price. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-01/09/047r-010900-idx.html
[FC - note that you can't believe most of what you read.]
FC