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...Network Systems determined that the problems lay with an "operating system bug" associated with new software that is intended to more efficiently control information flow through the Harvard network...
...Such fecundity has evolutionary benefits. The more offspring she produces, the better the chance that one of them will be born resistant to whatever poisons future scientists decide to spray. Today's best roach bait is almost universally fatal, but it's only a matter of time before a bug that's immune scuttles out from underneath someone's fridge...
...called some Apple iMovie execs, who said mine was the first such bug report they'd had. They did, however, recommend that iMovies not be longer than about 40 clips. If I was beyond that stage, they suggested, I should get Final Cut Pro, professional editing software that costs $999 and currently runs only on a top-of-the-line PowerMac...
Technical solutions will be slow in coming, and little can be done for now except to urge the technology industry to place a higher priority on issues of security usually buried in bug reports and fixed in infrequent updates. For the longer term, however, security should be integrated into the way we think about technology. Last month President Clinton proposed as part of his technology initiatives a college tuition subsidy for students who agree to study computer science and work after graduation for the federal government to improve computer security. This sort of "G.I. Bill" for computer security could...
...high market has been a wonder drug. Plunging share prices would erode people's security and sap consumer confidence. It could, well, kill me. On the bright side, though, I've got a better health plan than the President. Dr. Greenspan has an interest-rate antidote for every bug I catch. He gave me a quarter-point injection last week, and I expect two more by spring. They're painful but usually effective...