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Tech Talk Radio Highlights
This week, Tech Talk covered Bush's new plan for cybersecurity,
the Senate's decision to block e-mail surveillance, the FTD's
Valentine security breach, the Library of Congress' program
to archive web sites to preserve our digital culture, and,
as always, so much more...
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Tech Talk airs each Saturday at Noon on WMAL
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| Bush Unveils Final Cybersecurity Plan | | | The Bush administration published the final
version of its cybersecurity plan this week. The plan
seeks to protect critical infrastructure components
through a voluntary public-private partnership. The
plan places emphasis on the development of "best
practices" for the networking of SCADA devices, which
permit the remote
control of mechanical switches and valves. By hacking
these control systems through the Internet, terrorists
would be able to change the settings on a subway
system, open or close valves at a water treatment
facility, or overload a power plant. The dependence of
this plan on voluntary compliance has led some critics
to call it "toothless."
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out the Full Story
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| FTD Website Security Breach | | | FTD, the flower and gift retailer, acknowledged
a major security breach on its web site this week. An
attacker using a modified cookie could steal customer
information from the site. FTD confirmed the
problem, but was not able to confirm whether any
information had been compromised. Tech Talk
suggests keeping track of credit card bills from all
on-line purchases, or keeping a separate credit card for
on-line use only.
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out the Article
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| Senate Agrees not to Allow E-mail Surveillance | | | The Senate this week voted to block e-mail
surveillance of US citizens. The amendment was
appended to the Omnibus Spending Bill by
Representative Jerry Lewis (R - California), Chairman of
the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. The bill
passed last week, as amended. This amendment
is in response to DARPA's Total Information Awareness
program, which is developing techniques to scan all
e-mail for terror-related information.
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out the Full Story
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| Library of Congress to Archive Internet Culture | | | The Library of Congress (LOC) has observed that the
average web page lifespan is only a few months.
Nearly half of the web pages created in 1998 were no
longer available by 1999. Many feel that such change
represents a substantial loss of our digital cultural
heritage. Therefore, the LOC has put together a $100
million program to collect and archive Internet
information before it disappears.
Check
out the Washington Post Article
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| Intel Releases All-In-One Cell Phone Chip | | |
Intel
has released a new chip that includes cell phone, web surfing,
and digital camera capability. The new chip will sell for
about $35 at volume, which will allow cell phone manufacturers
to have high-end capability for a very low price. On a related
note, Gordon Moore, a cofounder of Intel and formulator of
Moore's Law, which states that processing
power will double about every two years, said that we can
expect the Law to continue for at least another decade.
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out the Full Story
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