Financial Times of October 3 has a humongous 40-page insert on international telecommunications -- markets, business, technology, and, to be sure, the tele-players lying, cheating, fearing the "computer hacking industry," whimpering with delirious greed at the bountiful, multicultured consumer's mindless credulity of tekkie- gadgets. For the mil-beguiled Colin Powells there's even a colored global map of Big Blob telco strategic rapacity. A tiny cheering blip of machine-wash-n-readable T-stupidity on p. 34: Sutton dismisses worries out security -- despite a recent successful attempt to break the security on Internet financial transactions. An incident in August, when a researcher at the French National Institute of Computer Science and Control (INRIA) broke into the Internet security system, raised concerns about security. "A lot of security is about perception -- after all, every code can be broken. The INRIA incident only involved breaking a single code and needed massive computer resources to do it," says Mr Sutton.
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John Young