Robert Lemos

Law enforcement officials and privacy advocates faced off in a panel discussion Wednesday over the issue of the trade-offs between security and privacy at the 10th annual Computer, Freedom and Privacy 2000 Conference in Toronto.
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Virus writers are finally catching on to something that tech companies have known for a while: If your applications don’t use the Internet, you’re behind the times.
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More than a week after it first appeared — and with the arrest of the suspected virus writer — the macro virus Melissa and its record-setting rampage across the Internet has largely abated … but it leaves questions in its wake.
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Intel Corp. will unveil plans to embed identification numbers in its PC processors on Thursday, said industry insiders and cryptographers familiar with the company’s efforts. In doing so, the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker could be sounding the death knell for anonymity on the Internet.
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The Internet has smashed the status quo in trading stock and redirected PC sales from retail to online; both have moved onto the Internet and cut out the middleman. Now, it’s the music industry’s turn. On Monday, Diamond will release its portable digital music player, Rio PMP300, the first device from a major hardware maker [...]

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Multimedia hardware maker Diamond Multimedia is expected to release a portable Walkman-type device to play music files downloaded from the Internet. The so-called MP3 files — short for MPEG1 Layer 3 — play near-CD-quality music from a relatively tiny file. It’s already the format of choice for audio pirates passing music over the Internet. And [...]

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Doom and devastation it’s not. But early reports from the field show that several companies have been hit by the deadly CIH virus, which strikes on the 26th of each month.
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An Internet entertainment company narrowly avoided posting files containing a deadly virus onto its Web site this week that could have contaminated tens of thousands of users — and perhaps ruined the company as well.
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