ACM TechNews

Per una serie di impegni lavorativi, ho accumulato quattro numeri di queste
news in un messaggio insolitamente lungo. Molti sono interessanti, secondo
me vale la pena di farsi la faticata e leggere fino in fondo :P

Aggiungo anche una news da Computerworld online:

3Com porta il firewall sul desktop del PC
Il nuovo Embedded Firewall controlla ogni tipologia di traffico, sia che
provenga dall'esterno e sia che arrivi dalla LAN. Pronta anche la versione
per device mobili
http://www.cwi.it/idg/computerworld/news.nsf/Newsletter/2EA3C290E2CEED11C125
6BAE00345752?OpenDocument

> "Report: U.S. Expecting Chinese Hack Blitz"
> Published reports say the CIA expects that Chinese hackers will
> launch cyberattacks on the U.S. and Taiwan, although so
> far there has been no indication that hacking activity has
> increased recently, according to SecurityFocus director of ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0426f.html#item1
>
> "Hill Back to Biz of Biz Privacy"
> Sept. 11 caused Congress to suspend its debate on privacy and
> authorize the passage of legislation that gives law enforcement
> officials license to monitor the electronic communications of
> U.S. citizens.  But Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0426f.html#item2
>
> "PC Networks Inspired by Gossip"
> The organization and maintenance of peer-to-peer networks, some
> of which boast tens or hundreds of thousands of members, is an
> impossible task for managers, according to Andrew Herbert of
> Microsoft's Cambridge research lab in Britain.  Therefore, he and ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0426f.html#item6
>
> "Security Gap Looms for Internet Architects"
> Internet security is inherently flawed, according to network
> architecture experts, and will not be able to protect the growing
> number of small footprint devices or Web services IDs.
> Currently, the Internet works much like the traditional mail ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0426f.html#item7
>
> "IPv6: Ready When You Are"
> Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) is actually becoming less of
> an imperative in the U.S., which owns a relatively
> abundant number of Internet address spaces in comparison to Asia
> and Europe.  In other parts of the world, where users are logging ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0426f.html#item9
>
> "Q&A: Erik Davis"
> Visionary Erik Davis offers his perspective on technology today
> and society's reactions to it.  He notes that people have become
> more intensely aware of technology's darker and more negative
> possibilities, especially as a result of Sept. 11.  Several years ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0426f.html#item12
>
> "Plugging Into Computing Power Grids"
> Companies faced with problems or projects that require a lot of
> computing power can harvest that power from grids, networks of
> workstations and servers whose accumulated computational
> capability is far less costly than building the hardware ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0426f.html#item15
>
> "Movement Afoot to Beef Up Industrial Cybersecurity"
> Earlier this month, federal officials met with private-sector
> representatives to discuss improvement strategies for the
> country's critical industrial-control systems.  At one such
> meeting, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0429m.html#item2
>
> "EU Throws the Book at Cyber Criminals"
> The European Union has established a 20-month deadline for its
> member nations to institute standards for cybercrime penalties
> that comply with an EU proposal.  Under the proposal, people
> found guilty of hacking or launching distributed denial of ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0429m.html#item3
>
> "DVD Copying Software Defendant Gets Supported in Calif. Fight"
> The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has
> filed a friend of the court statement urging California's Supreme
> Court to overturn a ruling that makes a Texas man, Matthew
> Pavlovich, liable for Web-distributed software that harms ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0429m.html#item4
>
> "White House Cool to Hollings' Act"
> James Rogan, the Commerce Department undersecretary for
> intellectual property and head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark
> Office, has said he prefers a wait-and-see approach to the
> digital copyright-protection technology debate currently on in ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0429m.html#item5
>
> "A Law to Protect Spyware"
> The new Online Personal Privacy Act introduced by Sen. Ernest
> "Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.) would legalize the increasingly
> invasive practices of online marketers.  Included in the bill's
> language are clauses that ensure the legality of online consumer ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0429m.html#item7
>
> "Computing Power Brought Online"
> The University of Edinburgh has officially opened the National
> e-Science Center, which will work to connect computers to the
> Internet so that their collective power might be harnessed to
> solve complex scientific problems.  The grid computing effort ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0429m.html#item10
>
> "A New Risk to Computers Worldwide"
> A "blended threat" computer program called W32/KLEZ.H is wreaking
> havoc around the world by combining elements of a computer virus
> and a computer worm.  The program, a variant of earlier Klez
> viruses, randomly changes the name, subject line, and message of ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0429m.html#item12
>
> "Peer (to Peer) Pressure: It's a Good Thing"
> Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology may have attracted more notoriety
> than praise, especially when many of its overhyped promises were
> not fulfilled, but useful applications are taking place.  P2P is
> proving very helpful with distributed computing initiatives, such ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0429m.html#item13
>
> "Russian CEO Defends Copying Rights"
> ElcomSoft CEO Alexander Katalov is struggling to rehabilitate his
> company's public image while fighting the Digital Millennium
> Copyright Act (DMCA), the controversial law that U.S. prosecutors
> claim ElcomSoft broke by offering software that bypasses ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item3
>
> "Bill Would Push Driver's License with Chip"
> In an effort to clamp down on identity fraud and bolster national
> security, Reps. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and Tom Davis (R-Va.) are
> touting legislation calling for the standardization of
> state-issued driver's licenses equipped with computer chips and ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item4
>
> "Fun With Your Zip Program: Sort Through Texts, and More"
> Zip compression programs can help categorize sets of digitized
> information, as an Italian team of scientists recently
> demonstrated using literary texts.  Writing in Physical Review
> Letters, the team said that zip programs codify data according to ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item7
>
> "Internet Needs Better Simulation Models, Speakers Say"
> More efficient ways of parsing Internet bandwidth are needed
> before new services are economically workable, according to
> speakers at the 50th anniversary meeting of the International
> Conference on Communications (ICC).  Telcordia Technologies chief ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item8
>
> "Who Can Speak for the Internet? More Voices Would Help"
> The experimentation and invention that led to the Internet and to
> the Internet's commercial and cultural boom during the 1990s also
> led to the creation of a libertarian Internet governance
> structure in ICANN.  ICANN has been established to govern the ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item10
>
> "The Future Face of Enterprise Computing"
> IT industry analysts say that once businesses resume buying new
> IT in about a year's time, Web services and wireless technologies
> will be at the top of CIOs' to-do lists.  Forrester lead analyst
> Ted Schadler says that recent Forrester studies show declines in ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item13
>
> "Online, the Armies Have No Borders"
> One of the most profound social impacts the Internet will have is
> the creation of "network armies," which Richard Hunter, author of
> "World Without Secrets: Business, Crime and Privacy in the Age of
> Ubiquitous Computing," describes as geographically dispersed ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item14
>
> "The Space Age"
> Recordable DVDs are being touted as far more preferable to hard
> disks for their ease and affordability, although hard disks still
> outshine them in storage capacity.  Demand for recordable DVDs
> will stem from consumers' desire to store still and moving ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item18
>
> "University Systems a Haven for Hackers"
> At the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, the
> University of Washington's David Dittrick warned that a lack of
> responsibility is allowing hackers and online pirates to thrive
> at colleges and universities.  Hackers are drawn to college ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0503f.html#item1
>
> "Copyright Holders Praise Proposed Bill"
> A bill introduced Tuesday by Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) would
> broaden counterfeit laws to include digital music and movies.
> The bill would prohibit the copying of authentication measures
> such as watermarks and holograms.  In addition, the bill would ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0503f.html#item3
>
> "Instead of a Password, Well-Placed Clicks"
> Rather than deal with the headache of remembering passwords made
> up of random strings of letters, numbers, and symbols, many users
> either write them down near their computers or settle for less
> complicated passwords, which raises the risk of hacking.  To ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0503f.html#item7
>
> "Alan Cox Attacks the European DMCA"
> Open source advocate Alan Cox delivered a warning about the
> European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD) at a Campaign for
> Digital Rights (CDR) mini-conference in London.  The EUCD, which
> is seen by many critics as even more restrictive than America's ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0503f.html#item11
>
> "Unbreakable Code Could Thwart Cyber Crooks"
> Quantum cryptography could supply an encryption method that makes
> messages invulnerable to hacking, and uses the intricacies of
> quantum mechanics to detect intruders.  The encryption key
> transmitted between senders and receivers is made up of polarized ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0503f.html#item14
>
> "Commerce Secretary Vows Scrutiny of ICANN Reforms"
> U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans has told House Commerce
> Committee Chairman W.J. Tauzin (R-La.) in a letter that the
> Commerce Department is consulting with business and non-profit
> leaders about ICANN reform.  The Commerce Department is ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0503f.html#item15
>
> "Just Around the Corner"
> The next technology revolution is expected to be the advent of
> the second-generation Internet (Internet II), which will feature
> Web services as a key component.  Speaking at a technology
> conference, general manager of Microsoft's .NET platform ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0503f.html#item19





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