The current online issue of InformationWeek contains an article about new threats to data security. Nothing in the article should be new to most Cypherpunks readers, but those who are interested can find the article at: http://techweb.cmp.com/iw/current/42mtweb.htm To its credit, IW has no obnoxious registration procedure; just click and read. Here's a sample: =============================================================================== INTERNET THIEVES Trade in black-market data is a growing problem for business. What, if anything, can be done? By Clinton Wilder and Bob Violino (Issue date: August 28, 1995) The new frontier of cyberspace represents vast opportunities for innovation, entrepreneurship, and profit-making. But there is also a dark side to the online world, one that poses a worrisome threat to the security of corporations. The Internet has spawned an illegal market in which thieves use the latest Net software tools to trade stolen information, including corporate trade secrets. [...] =============================================================================== -- Martin Janzen janzen@idacom.hp.com