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...hope this will be a neighborhood watch of badware,” said Executive Director of the Berkman Center John G. Palfrey, Jr., who is co-directing the project. “Based on what we hear, we’re going to design programs to combat the problem.” Almost sixty million American adults have spyware on their computers, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. For Palfrey, the problem is more than a nuisance; he said badware raises issues of corporate responsibility and trust. Many companies that put on legitimate faces...
...down to the level of superstition or mental illness, leaving virtually nothing except self-indulgence as a philosophy or a worldview. This purposelessness is the primary cause of Europe’s malaise, and, given the way things have developed, it will be very hard, if not impossible, to combat...
...Department designated Banco Delta Asia in Macau as a "primary money laundering concern" and alleged that it facilitated the North's criminal activities by circulating counterfeit currency (charges the bank denied). And a senior Treasury Department official called on the South Korean government last week to help the U.S. combat the North's alleged involvement in such businesses as counterfeiting U.S. banknotes and exporting drugs...
...renew the USA Patriot Act, which is due to expire soon. Bush allies believe this could be one of the most politically effective, galvinizing moments of the speech, leaving Democrats who have been wary of renewing portions of the act looking less than vigorous in the effort to combat terrorism...
...years, guides annual spending decisions by venturing how the U.S. military is likely to be waging war in years to come. But, defense officials say, it continues to pump billions of dollars into weapons of dubious utility in the war on terror-like the Army's $161 billion Future Combat Systems. The Army says this welter of weapons-tanks and helicopters, both manned and unmanned, all bound together with computer data links-will let soldiers "move, shoot and communicate better than ever before." But at a time when the military is still belatedly buying sufficient armor for its Humvees...