Computer Security Weekly, July 17, 2000


eWeek (the new name for PCWeek) set up an e-commerce site and then challenged people to crack it. Someone from Australia promptly did just that, using security loopholes in the applications being used.

http://www.eweek.com/a/pcwt0007051/26002...

The Clinton administration in the US is pushing hard to be seen as doing something to protect computer and enhance data security. The latest initiative seems to be aimed at trying to get more people whith PhDs so that they can then teach at universities. The fact that few universities offer full security programs seems to have been lost on someone.

As those in the UK wait to see whether the online industry in their country will be destroyed by the RIP Bill, Baroness Thornton has revealed, in a speech in the House of Lords, that critics of the Bill "would like to have the regime which exists in America, which is protected by the First Amendment and which has no constraints at all." And what could such extremism lead to? "In America, children are kidnapped. In America, there is no restriction on the paedophile activity which can take place... I do not want the Internet in the rest of the world to operate under that regime."

http://www.fipr.org/rip/RIPLordsReportDe... http://www.fipr.org/rip/RIPLordsReportDe...

In 1954, the CIA produced a document about the overthrow of the Iranian government. In the fullness of time, the document was declassified. The New York Times recently published it. However, the paper decided to censor the names of Iranian citizens involved in the plot. However you may feel about censorship, the way they went about it was foolish in the extreme. The document published on the New York Times Web site was a PDF file. The name were overlaid with black bars. Because of the nature of PDF, it was a simple matter to edit the file so as to remove the bars. Which someone did. The uncensored version is available at a number of places on the net.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,128... http://www.securityfocus.com/news/51 http://cryptome.org/cia-iran-all.htm

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