Oldie but goldie: Basic cryptanalysis  8:26:59 PM    

Are we going to see less cyberterrorism and more information security? Richard Clarke thinks we should. So do I.

 "Clarke said he prefers not to use the term "cyberterrorism", but instead favors use of the term "information security" or "cyberspace security". Most terrorist groups have not engaged in information
warfare, Clarke said, except for some very minor infractions. Instead, terrorist groups have thus far only used the Internet for propaganda, communications, or fundraising."

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New Crypto-gram comments extensively on Microsoft's trustworthy computing.  7:20:26 PM    

Friday divination lesson delivered by META Group: "The Liberty Alliance (see table) will seek to establish a much broader view of identity and attempt to define standards for both identity and single sign-on in 2002, but it will be forced to narrow its scope due primarily to alliance partner politics. Drafts of such standards will not be widely available before YE02; products based on them will not be available in any significant quantity before 2003/04 due to implementation complexity and competing standards from Passport and Magic Carpet. The alliance is also missing key players such as IBM, Oracle, Novell, Microsoft, and Amazon, though they may join later."  6:41:29 PM    

ZDnet interview with Sarah Gordon of Symantec Research: "I wouldn't read mail in my neighbor's mailbox, and I think the vast majority of kids know that this is wrong. But if it's in the e-mail in-box, kids will read it. They don't have the same morality in the virtual world as they have in the real world because they don't think computers are part of the real world. " Rather deep article about virus writers, hackers and ethics.

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