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contributed by techs
Set to take effect in July 2001 the Uniform Computer Information
Transaction Act has been signed into law in Virginia by Governor James
S. Gilmore III. UCITA will allow software companies to remotely disable
software and will giving licensing agreements the force of law.
Washington
Post
Computer
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contributed by Lady Sharrow
The UK Government's Regulatory Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill goes
before Select Committee in the House of Commons today and in a little
more than six months it could be enshrined in law. The bill will force
ISPs to have the facilities to log and monitor all online activities of
their users.
The Register
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contributed by acopalyse
A a 128-bit security patch for Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.0a, and 5.0b
released by Microsoft will replace security files with older versions
that will lock users out of their systems after restart. Microsoft has
asked administrators to stop distributing the patch and has said that a
fix will be available soon.
InfoWorld
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contributed by Dan
17-year-old Romanian-born Viviana Risca topped the 59th Intel Science
Talent Search competition by embedding a computer message in the gene
sequence of a strand of DNA using steganography, a data encryption
technology that allows a computer user to hide a file within another
file.
San
Jose Mercury News
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contributed by Odin
A lot of people have turned to satellite phones as a last ditch effort
to retain some privacy. Now Motorola has patented a means by which to
listen in to a satellite phone to satellite phone call.
New
Scientist
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