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Tuesday, January 14, 2003
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George Orwell, here we come: "... the biggest problem with the criticism of the Total Information Awareness system is that it's too shortsighted. It's focused on what the Poindexters of the world can do with current database and information-mining technology. That includes weaving together strands of data from various sources--such as travel, credit card, bank, electronic toll and driver's license databases--with the stated purpose of identifying terrorists before they strike. [...] But what could Poindexter and the Bush administration devise in five or 10 years, if they had the money, the power and the will?" [News Is Free: Popular Items]
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Open Source Group Issues Top Ten Web Vulnerabilities: "The ten most critical web application security problems for government and the private sector was unveiled Monday by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), the Washington, DC-based open source community project." [Google Technology News]
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'Trustworthy' plan plods uphill: "Wednesday will mark the one-year anniversary of the day that Bill Gates decreed, via a companywide memo, that "Trustworthy Computing" would be the highest priority for all the work Microsoft Corp. employees do (see story)." [Google Technology News]
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