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...mail from a friend or colleague. In a matter of days, she was replicating herself all over cyberspace--from Berlin to Beijing, from the U.S. Marine Corps to the office of Republican Congressman Jim Talent--causing shutdowns in more than 300 computer networks. Worse still, her freely available source code soon spawned copycat viruses, like Papa and Mad Cow. Suddenly, Melissa wasn't sexy, crazy or even cool anymore. She was a menace to wired society...
...Facilitating this high-tech sleuthing, Smith is also supposed to have left his name in the source code of a file available on the Source of Kaos web site that was seized this week in Orlando, Florida. Smith's name appeared three separate times in the revision logs of files found in virus toolkits: As David L. Smith, DLS and DA Smith. TIME Digital has learned that the FBI is keeping the investigation open on the possibility that it was a two-man operation. Smith is said to be VicodinES; a suspected accomplice, Alt-F11, has yet to be identified...
...Turing and other Enigma-code crackers at Bletchley Park build Colossus...
Turing, on the basis of his published work, was recruited to serve in the Government Code and Cypher School, located in a Victorian mansion called Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. The task of all those so assembled--mathematicians, chess champions, Egyptologists, whoever might have something to contribute about the possible permutations of formal systems--was to break the Enigma codes used by the Nazis in communications between headquarters and troops. Because of secrecy restrictions, Turing's role in this enterprise was not acknowledged until long after his death. And like the invention of the computer, the work done by the Bletchley...
DIGITAL SIGNALS Alec Reeves develops pulse-code modulation system in 1939 for converting analog information into digital style on-and-off signals...