All you wanted know about time Tausin-Dingell Bill passes the house
Defangs the Telecommunications Act of 1996 Baby Bells are getting rewarded for snubbing the law Major House Proponent
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman, W.J. "Billy" Tauzin, R-La. He believes it is needed to make DSL competitive with Cable
Major Senate Opponent
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman, Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-S.C He calls bill "blasphemy," and is seeking to delay or? kill it.
Selected Corporate and Organization positions
Favored by Baby Bells — Verizon, SBC Communications, BellSouth, Qwest (Connect USA ) Opposed by AT&T, Worldcom, Cable Companies, DSL Providers, Internet Service Providers (Voices for Choices ) Opposed by Internet Society (Press Release ) Opposed by Tech Talk
Checkout the political money trail
Republican candidate for Governor caught spamming in California
Bill Jones called it innovative use of the Internet Sent to addresses with ca suffix in error Used address spoofing Sent through an elementary school SMTP server in Chonnam, Korea Highlights problem with offshore spamming companies
FirstGov.gov gets facelift Energy Secretary Uses Digital Signature
Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy, uses e-authentication to send proposal to President
Proposal is 9,500 pages (4 feet tall, weighing 80 pounds if printed) 24 years of research on nuclear was storage Also available on CD Saved $1M in printing costs
VeriSign provided the digital signature technology
First cabinet official to use e-authentication As a Senator, Abraham helped write the Electronic Signature and National Commerce Act that was signed into law on July 2000.
Security Events of the Week New York Times Network Hacked
Adrian Lamo, who has previously hit Yahoo, Microsoft, Excite@Home Viewed employee records, including SSN
Intel?s vision of the PC
Integrated 802.11b wireless 3GIO to replace both AGP and PCI. This will revolutionize PC design with wired connectivity Noise and heat reduction
Liquid cooling, since diamonds are too expensive Acoustics with air channeling to reduce noise
Novell gets new leadership
Chris Stone rejoins Novell Chris is a developer heart Says Chris, ?Buy some popcorn and watch Novell?s comeback plot unfold Emphasis will be on the development environment Look for strong support of Java2 Enterprise environment
Stratford News
Next Start March 18th
All program (Graduate and Undergraduate) Great security class in the graduate program
Excellent meeting with ABE/CCA coalition this week
Bush administration is pushing education at all levels (elementary through adult)