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http://thescotsman.co.uk/world.cfm?id=TS00133394&d Moscow poised to offer Cold War-style spy swap Chris Stephen In Moscow REPORTS in Russia suggest Moscow is preparing to offer the United States a Cold War-style "spy swap" involving the release of an American businessman charged with espionage in return for the convicted spy Aldrich Ames. A Moscow newspaper, Sevodnya, yesterday quoted a source in Russias security service, the FSB, as saying they were considering offering to swap the businessman, Edmond Pope. He is accused of trying to buy plans for the same top secret torpedo, the Squall, that was being tested by the Kursk submarine when it exploded and sank last month. <SNIP> http://www.bergen.com/morenews/fake200009026.htm Investigators with phony ID easily breach security checks Sunday, September 3, 2000 By TAMARA LYTLE Special from The Orlando Sentinel WASHINGTON -- Investigators used phony law-enforcement identification available on the Internet and elsewhere to breach security at some of the nation's most sensitive agencies, including the CIA, the FBI, and the Departments of Justice and State. The investigators breezed into 18 federal facilities, Orlando International Airport, Washington's Reagan National Airport, and the U.S courthouse in Orlando simply by flashing fake badges and credentials. In some cases they were able to claim they had firearms but still bypass metal detectors and other screening. <SNIP> http://www4.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2620091,00.html Big Brother Is Watching . . . What You Buy August 28, 2000 8:19 AM ET By Lisa Dempster In his nightmarish novel 1984, George Orwell envisioned a future in which the merest hint of privacy would be treason and protagonist Winston Smith would be cowed into embracing truth in his telescreen. The year in question came and went, but could Orwell's bad dream become our reality two decades later? What kind of privacy protection will we be able to expect from the Internet in 2004? Picture this: Retinal scans, fingerprint readers built into your mouse and voice recognition software able to nail your identity down to the roots of your genetic code. Great for keeping your identity a secret from advertising piranhas, but do you really want your bank or online health-care provider to store such intimate information? Unlike Orwell's dour Smith, who struggled to conceal his thoughts and feelings from Big Brother, privacy advocates predict our biggest concern in four years' time will be camouflaging ourselves from corporate behemoths devoted to discovering our every purchasing peccadillo - and pandering to it. <SNIP> http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=306483 UPDATE: MS Word documents can be tracked on Web by Peter Sayer, IDG News Service\Paris Bureau August 31, 2000, 07:53 Creators of Microsoft Word documents can use the application's well-documented ability to include Web hyperlinks in documents to remotely track who is reading a them, according to a study by the Denver-based Privacy Foundation published Wednesday. Users of Microsoft's word processor have been able to embed graphics in their documents for the best part of a decade, but only in versions of the program since Word 97 have users been able to replace a bulky, memory-hogging graphic with a short URL (Uniform Resource Locator) pointing to the location of the graphic on a Web server. Each time the document is opened, the computer sends an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) request to the Web server asking for the graphic in order to display it. <SNIP> -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------