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...Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) sued the FBI last year in its quest for the source code for the Carnivore system through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which would have enabled them to understand the degree to which Carnivore has the potential to impinge on privacy rights. But the FBI only released information on Carnivore version 1.3.4, which has reached a ripe old age and will soon be retired; there was no mention made in the report of the system capabilities of Carnivore version...
...Appointed as director by President Clinton in 1993, Freeh was employed at the FBI for 27 years, and accrued a reputation for sometimes brutal honesty and a dedication to his own strict ethical code...
...gave a spirited presentation at last year's World Economic Summit in Davos. But drumming up actual investment on the downside of a boom is a tough task, especially with a business plan that allows for easy access to the Simputer design (for a nominal fee) and an open-code software-sharing initiative. The theory is that the arrangement will promote widespread use and higher revenues from licensing. Noble, but perhaps naive. "The venture capitalists simply freeze when they hear the word 'free,'" says Professor V. Vinay, one of the founders. "Some ask the standard VC question: 'What vertical market...
...after years of working part time as a photographer's assistant, is being her own boss. She makes her own hours, although that usually includes Sunday nights. Still, there is plenty of time for her daughters. She can watch tapes of musicals in her warehouse office. And the dress code is up to her. "You know what?" She pauses for a minute and then whispers, "I don't wear shoes...
DIED. ROBERT AURAND MOON, 83, former postal inspector who was one of the inventors of the ZIP code; in Leesburg, Fla. Moon began working for the post office in the 1940s in Philadelphia and Chicago, where his idea was born for what became the Zoning Improvement Plan...