7-29-96. EBNews: "Encryption ICs Enable Ironclad Net Security." New encryption ICs on PCMCIA cards will be unveiled imminently to allow PC users to make transactions over the Internet with ironclad security. "This will open up electronic commerce pervasively and launch a new market for PCs," said TIS's Bill Sweet. Both National Semiconductor and VLSI Technology plan to unveil affordable chips shortly for PCMCIA encryption cards. National's thumb-scan project, which aims to provide an additional security factor, is a joint effort with Identix. In this system, a holographic laser chip on the card would image a portion of the holder's thumbprint. That image will be compared with the holder's digital thumbprint pattern stored on a memory chip in the card. 7-31-96. Jane's: "Future Warfare | Rise of the robots." A US Defense Science Board (DSB) task force is putting the final touches to a study that members promise will be one of the most controversial ever produced by the panel. The next century adversary will aggressively use offensive information warfare, rely on underground and covert urban facilities and have some ability to attack low earth orbiting satellites. It will require a "revolution in military affairs" achieved through enhanced surveillance capabilities, weapons of mass destruction, thousands of inexpensive missiles, a few very low observable cruise missiles, mines and diesel submarines. The only aspect of tactics and technology that everyone in the DoD seems to agree on is that the most important developments for warfighting over the next 10 to 20 years will be related to information systems. ----- http://jya.com/pccwar.txt (19 kb for 2) PCC_war