Word: bug
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...here's my analysis: Buy what you can afford. The Handspring Visor, at $149, is kind of like the VW Bug of yesteryear. It's cheap, has a certain elegance and runs on the same gas as the Palm line. But if you want a luxury ride with tons of options, go with a Palm. Either way, you can still beam...
...creating superresistant bacteria in humans. Here's new evidence: after contact with cattle on his family's farm, a 12-year-old Nebraska boy became infected with the same antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonella that had sickened the cows. Using a "molecular fingerprint," researchers confirmed that the cow bug and human bug were indeed one and the same...
Even after having to temporarily release the Manila man they had in custody for insuffucient evidence, Filipino investigators and their FBI buddies say they've got a list of 10 suspects in their hunt for the progenitor of the Love Bug, all connected to a Manila computer school - including the man, his girlfriend and her sister. But the problem with police action is that it's all cure and no prevention. And the sad fact, says TIME technology writer Lev Grossman, is that there will always be another Love Bug, another Michelangelo, another Melissa. And there's not much anybody...
...barged through Reomel Ramones' front door Monday and started seizing computer equipment (but no computer, which was apparently disposed of while police tried to find a statute to prosecute on and a judge tech-savvy enough to issue a warrant), most offices and government agencies ravaged by the Love Bug last week had put their digital lives back together and passed out software patches to plug this Herbie's favorite holes. But no matter what their IT guys tell them, says Grossman, "virus writers will always be able to find a way around whatever walls and patches the anti-virus...
State's record is not encouraging. Last year, in another case, FBI agents found a Russian bug in a room that TIME has learned was used by CIA officials to discuss intelligence. And State's inspector general's report, produced last September, singled out the Intelligence and Research Bureau for loose handling of SCI material, recommending its control over it be taken away. As for the laptop, the search continues, but hopes are not high. Says a U.S. security official: "Nobody has any f______ idea where that laptop is, and they may never find it." Ever more desperate feds...