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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...
From his apartment in Brookline, Mass., Richard M. Smith (no relation), president of Phar Lap Software, explored other viruses posted from the same e-mail account. In Stockholm, computer-science grad Fredrik Bjorck suggested that Melissa's code bore a strong resemblance to the work of a virus writer called VicodinES. When he heard that, Smith says, "I jumped all over it." He went to Vicodin's website and downloaded the virus tool kits he found there. Pulling files apart, he found names embedded in the source code. One of them appeared three times: David L. Smith...
...they aren't letting go. In the past two weeks 33 universities have signed on to a plan designed by the Fair Labor Association, a consortium of human-rights groups and manufacturers like Nike and Reebok, to come up with a uniform code of conduct for the apparel industry. Though the agreement has won the backing of the White House, a core group of student leaders has joined UNITE in opposing it as inadequate...
...electric motor cuts in at that point, and you can cruise at 13 m.p.h. for about eight miles. Its throttle, unlike the Buzz's, is not variable, only on/off, which makes the experience more challenging and herky-jerky. In June, ZAP is coming out with a sit-down model (code-named Pappy), which I also tried. It too was loads of fun, but it felt more like a toy. And it did not include a built-in basket. The Buzz did, making it the clear leader in the e-scooter race...
...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...