Miasma in the House of Bite Me

Saturday, December 7, 2002

"Network World Fusion" - PGP 8.0 released in several new editions.

PGP Corp. Tuesday introduced several new products, 16 weeks after it acquired the software portfolio based on the Pretty Good Privacy security technology from Network Associates Inc.

The Palo Alto start-up released PGP 8.0 in Enterprise, Desktop and Personal versions, as well as a new freeware version and the PGP 8.0 source code for peer review, the company said in a statement. PGP software's main function is to encrypt e-mail messages and files on a PC.

Just in case you missed the other post.

[Privacy Digest]
1:38:36 AM

"New Scientist" - Radioactive patients set off subway alarms .

Americans undergoing radioactive medical treatments risk setting off anti-terrorism sensors in public places, and subsequent strip searches by police, warn doctors at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

A 34-year-old patient who had been treated with radioactive iodine for Graves disease, a thyroid disorder, returned to their clinic three weeks later complaining he had been strip-searched twice in Manhattan subway stations. Christopher Buettner and Martin Surks report the case in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association.

"Police had identified him as emitting radiation and had detained him for further questioning. This patient's experience indicates that radiation detection devices are being installed in public places in New York City and elsewhere," the doctors write.

[Privacy Digest]
1:34:12 AM

Cruise missiles mean never having to say you're sorry. The US has no qualms about firing missiles into cars believed to contain alleged al-Qaida members. The Bush Administration has directed the CIA to seek out and kill those associated with al-Qaida anywhere in the world, apparently using any means necessary. Are you frightened? [kuro5hin.org]
1:05:04 AM

Is This the America I Love?. I just feel the need to write right now. Something has gone terribly wrong with the country I was raised to love. The good things that America stands for are being trampled into the dirt by those charged with the burden of protecting them. I was raised to be a patriotic American. I grew up a military brat - my father was a proud officer of the United States Navy, who served in the Vietnam War. When I was young, I was always told that my father was fighting to preserve the freedoms that were guaranteed us by the United States Constitution. In the first grade, I attended a school run by the U.S. Navy in Gaeta, Italy, where my father was stationed aboard the U.S.S. Springfield. Each day when we started school we sang patriotic songs and said the Pledge of Allegiance. We were told that America stood for freedom and democracy and justice. I loved America for what it stood for. [kuro5hin.org]
1:03:37 AM