Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1676-999264281-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 31 Aug 2001 06:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 32057 invoked by uid 510); 31 Aug 2001 13:25:02 -0000 Received: from n7.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.57) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 31 Aug 2001 13:25:02 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1676-999264281-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by fj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 31 Aug 2001 13:24:41 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 31 Aug 2001 13:24:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 75706 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2001 13:24:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 31 Aug 2001 13:24:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 31 Aug 2001 13:24:11 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id GAA17388 for iwar@onelist.com; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 06:24:10 -0700 Message-Id: <200108311324.GAA17388@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 06:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [NewsBits] August 30, 2001 (fwd) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit U.S. report: Code Red computer worm born in China The ``Code Red'' computer worm, which caused $2.4 billion in estimated cleanup costs on Internet- linked computers last month, seems to have been born at a university in China's southern Guangdong province, according to the nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress. ``The worm is believed to have started at a university in Guangdong, China,'' Keith Rhodes, chief technologist at the General Accounting Office, said in written testimony Wednesday before a House Government Reform subcommittee. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/031257.htm Pentagon gives go-ahead to Grid The Pentagon has approved the Global Information Grid architecture, a worldwide architecture for providing data to military forces around the world from regional commanders to soldiers on the front lines, the acting Defense Department deputy chief information officer said. That architecture will provide the first slice of an integrated DOD enterprise information technology architecture, Margaret Myers said Aug. 29 during a breakfast forum sponsored by Federal Sources Inc., McLean, Va. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0827/web-dod-08-30-01.asp Air Force to test biometric security The Air Force will soon begin testing three types of biometric applications for greater security in daily operations, with partial funding from the Defense Department. Frankie Sorrell, the Air Force biometrics program manager, said the 16th Air Force in Aviano, Italy, and the Air Intelligence Agency and the Cryptologic Systems Group, both in San Antonio, are taking what she called a "quick look" at the systems. http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/16966-1.html Protesters declare war on copyright law Supporters backing Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian programmer accused of five counts of copyright infringement, declared war on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act at a fund-raiser for Sklyarov's legal defense on Wednesday. "This is a war being waged by copyright interests who see each opportunity on the Internet as an opportunity to change the meaning of copyright law," said Lawrence Lessig, director of Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society and author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5096421,00.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7014821.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21375.html No Big Change Needed In Digital Copyright Law - Feds http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169594.html Keep Digital Copyright Law Intact, Agency Says http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169559.html U.S. plans to help thwart China's Web censors The United States is planning to finance the spread of new computer technology designed to help Chinese Web surfers dodge their government's efforts to censor the Internet, architects of the plan said Thursday. The high-tech U.S. reply to Web site blocking by Beijing is being led by the same U.S. agencies that poured billions into piercing the Iron Curtain with Cold War radio broadcasts. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/006148.htm http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5096452,00.html http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3345146,00.html http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169604.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/621746.asp ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Secure all your Web servers now: Get your FREE Guide and learn to: DEPLOY THE LATEST ENCRYPTION, DELIVER TRANSPARENT PROTECTION, and More! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VihfLB/nT7CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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