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...with Washington's backing, had expressed grave reservations over irregularities in the first-round ballot - won by Fujimori, but without a sufficient majority to avoid a runoff - and urged postponement in order to resolve problems including candidates' access to the media, monitors' access to the polling stations, and the bug-prone software used to tabulate results...
Microsoft resists the monoculture argument as strongly as it does the DOJ breakup plan. "The reason [Love Bug] spread so rapidly is more a matter of the connectedness of systems than the specifics of platforms," insists Steve Lipner, manager of Microsoft's security-response center. Still, the company recognizes the threat from at least one source of infections. The latest version of Word profits from its predecessor's mistakes and comes with macros disabled by default, meaning that viruses like Ethan, Marker and even Melissa will find it harder to gain a toehold. But Outlook's macros...
...kill innovation in the OS--and impair the livelihoods of the tens of thousands of independent software developers who depend on constant innovation in the OS to make their products more attractive. Updates to Windows and Office technologies that could, for example, protect against attacks such as the Love Bug virus would also be much harder for computer users to obtain...
They may have caused up to $15 billion in damage, but it's not quite clear whether the authors of the "Love Bug" virus actually committed a crime. The reason is that the virus was launched in the Philippines, which doesn't have the same stringent body of laws governing behavior on computer systems as exist in the U.S. and some other industrialized countries. Government and business representatives from the G8 industrialized nations met in Paris Monday to discuss proposals for dealing with a new generation of cross-border, or more correctly, borderless crimes - after all, the Love Bug...
...standardize computer security legislation across the G8 members, as well as other emerging computer powers such as Israel, India and South Africa, that could serve as a basis for international cooperation in tracking and prosecuting offenders. But that wouldn't necessarily serve as a deterrent for the Love Bug authors and their ilk. "Anthropologists who've studied virus offenders conclude there's little correlation between the prosecution and punishment of virus offenders who've been caught and the behavior of those still out there creating viruses," says TIME Digital correspondent Lev Grossman. "They conclude that strengthening the law hasn...