David Gelernter’s New Desktop
FEED Magazine: David Gelernter’s New Desktop. Users can browse this stream of cards or search by keyword, topic, or file type. Scopeware is an elegant alternative to the current desktop, an interface that, in Gelernter’s view, is still mired in a bygone era when megabytes were scarce and CPUs lethargic. [via Tomalak’s Realm]
Use and Misuse of the Social Security Number
EPIC – Use 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]
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.
Security issues at forefront of ASP deployments
Security issues at forefront of ASP deployments. IDG May 22 2001 7:09PM ET [via Moreover Computer security news]
Hardening Windows 2000, Part One: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
New article in Microsoft focus area:
Hardening Windows 2000, Part One: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
[Security Focus]
