Looking For Gravity Waves

NASA scientists expect to use barely perceptible speed variations in the Cassini spacecraft as it moves toward Saturn to provide the first direct detection of gravitational waves, a basic feature of how the universe behaves.
http://www.cosmiverse.com/space11210102.html

FBIs Keylogger Virus

The FBI is developing software capable of inserting a computer virus onto a suspect?s machine and obtaining encryption keys, a source familiar with the project told MSNBC.com. The software, known as ?Magic Lantern,? enables agents to read data that had been scrambled, a tactic often employed by criminals to hide information and evade law enforcement. The best snooping technology that the FBI currently uses, the controversial software called Carnivore, has been useless against suspects clever enough to encrypt their files.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/660096.asp

"Cyclone" blows computer bugs out of code

A new computer language designed to avoid unforeseen programming errors could prevent many computer security breaches, according to the US researchers behind the project. -- Ill believe it when I see it.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991578

Hidden Dangers of Carnivore

The three primary dangers of Carnivore to innocent people can be called the Backdoor problem, the Rogue Agent problem, and the Mishap problem.
http://www.stopcarnivore.org/threeproblems.htm

Bruce Lee to Star in NEW Film

More than 28 years after Bruce Lees death, CGI technology will resurrect the kung-fu icon to star in the $50 million-budgeted chopsocky actioner "Dragon Warrior."
http://www.dtheatre.com/read.php?sid=1584

EU Anti-Hacking Proposal

This anti-hacking proposal of the EU Commission makes provisions worse than those already in COE Cybercrime Treaty. If this proposal becomes EU law, "illegal access" will be considered a "serious attack against information systems" even if the access was unintentional. As penalty for any indirect damage in course of "illegal access" the maximum sentence must a minimum of four years. The proposal has not been published and is to be presented November 27, 2001, in Brussels.
http://cryptome.org/eu-antihack.htm

Particle physics telescope explodes

One of the worlds leading particle physics instruments has been severely damaged in an accident. The underground Super-Kamiokande Observatory in Japan detects elusive neutrino particles from space by using photomultiplier tubes to register the flashes of light they produce when they pass through a huge tank of water.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1664000/1664447.stm