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Use and Misuse of the Social Security Number

EPICUse and Misuse of the Social Security Number. Testimony and Statement for the Record of Marc Rotenberg Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center Hearing on the Use and Misuse of the Social Security Number [Privacy Digest]

X Windows for OS X

Grab A Piece Of Big Blue’s Big Iron

U.S. Wooing Student Hackers

U.S. Wooing Student Hackers. The National Science Foundation will award scholarship money to computer security students who take government jobs upon graduation. Reactions are mixed. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]

Wireless Security: Guess Whos Listening

Wireless Security: Guess Whos Listening. Forbes May 22 2001 10:26PM ET

Recently, two hackers using standard wireless products accessed e-mail and files from Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW – news – people) while sitting in the company’s parking lot. And at a federal agency, information sent wirelessly was intercepted and then used against the agency in a future negotiation.

[via Moreover Computer security news]

Security issues at forefront of ASP deployments

Hardening Windows 2000, Part One: Seeing the Forest for the Trees

A tool to make a set of HTML/JPEG slides from a LaTeX source

latex2slides 0.4.1 (Default). A tool to make a set of HTML/JPEG slides from a LaTeX source. [freshmeat.net]

The ICANN cartoon: Part II

The ICANN cartoon: Part II. The conspiracy continues [The Register]

Linux Plus Itanium Equals Whoosh

Wired News: Linux Plus Itanium Equals Whoosh. It’s billed as academia’s fastest supercomputer: an IBM machine using Intel’s Itanium processor running a Linux application that can process 2 trillion calculations per second. Wanna know how gravitational waves work? By Michelle Delio. [Jake Savin: Linux]