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Fires that occur in the zone where suburban sprawl abuts rugged wild lands are known as intermix fires, and they are a fire fighter's nightmare. Vastly complicating the ability to protect property and lives are nonnatural hazards like narrow, twisting roads that dead-end in blind canyons or houses with cedar-shake roofs and logs stacked beside the kitchen door...
...buying a new one. You're better off paying an extra 10% for replacement-cost coverage, which doesn't adjust for depreciation. For even more security, you can buy extended-replacement-cost coverage, which provides a 20%-to-30% buffer above what should be the cost of rebuilding, to protect against the price gouging that often occurs after disasters. And, notes Mogil, anyone with a home worth more than $500,000 should look at a guaranteed-replacement-cost policy that pays to rebuild no matter how high costs go. Only a few companies--including Chubb, Fireman's Fund...
...Pearl Harbor"? Physical attacks are targeted to specific geographic areas; if you're not there, you're probably safe. But if you have computers or are affected by them--and that's everybody--you're at risk of inconvenience, intrusion or, technologists fear, much worse. Building better defenses to protect home computers, business networks and civic infrastructure must therefore be--however cliched it is to say--the Next Big Thing. In 1999 security incidents reported to the CERT Command Center, a federally funded research group, totaled 9,859; from January to September of this year, there were 114,855. Security...
Humans strike at computer systems in one of two ways, through malevolence or incompetence. Unfortunately for law-enforcement agencies and the people they protect, the bad guys are getting much better at what they...
...tell them how to do their arcane jobs. Yet three of the most significant laws of the past 10 years--the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley financial-modernization law (1999) and last year's Sarbanes-Oxley corporate-reform act--all have mandates to protect and secure data. Still needed, Geer argued, are laws that hold companies liable for holes in their security that make us vulnerable to attacks from elsewhere. Responsibility for passive negligence "might be better than, God help us, the U.S. Senate imposing an argument about what the limits of liability should...