March 27, 2003

Civilian Casualties As we read about civilians dead and wounded we need to keep in mind that a low estimate of the number of Iraq citizens killed by Saddam in the last 30 years is 1 million. That means about 640 men, women and children every week.  If, after a week, this effort might be able to point to 350 civilians dead, that would mean 290 people who were saved. Silly math I know, but stopping the number one cause of death in Iraq can't be bad.   2:30:59 PM

NT4.0 too flawed to fix - official The Register - Although a denial of service risk exists in an "important" security vulnerability, publicised yesterday affecting NT 4.0, Redmond tells users not to expect a patch for that operating system anytime soon. 12:57:40 PM

US Navy jets lurk in Iraqi skies , waiting Reuters AlertNet -In the skies obove Iraq a stack of US fighter jets circle with their loads of precision-guided bombs, waiting to be called in by a soldier or a Marine in a tight spot down below. 8:43:56 AM

Al-Jazeera hobbled by DDOS attack InfoWorld, CA - The Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera suffered a second day of sustained distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against its English and Arabic language Web sites on Wednesday. 6:33:36 AM

'Iraq war' virus suspect detained The Register, UK - Investigators in Sweden have questioned an unnamed person on suspicion of writing the Ganda worm, according to local reports. The worm, which posed as a screensaver offering spy satellite photographs of Iraq, caused concern when it began to spread, albeit modestly, last week.  6:08:50 AM