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...carrying. Not bombs or secret government documents, but software to make other kinds of documents--electronic books--less than secret. Working for Moscow-based ElcomSoft while finishing his Ph.D., Sklyarov had used his head and hands to write code that cracks the security on an e-book reader sold by software giant Adobe. What Sklyarov did is perfectly legal in the rest of the world, and it was legal here until last year. "I was in the wrong place at the wrong time," Sklyarov told TIME in his first interview since being released on bail...
Although evolution has been the subject of decades of derision and court battles, it finally emerges triumphantly as one of the three greatest theories of our time. Along with relativity and quantum physics, evolution forms the cornerstone of human understanding of nature. Your article, aimed at the lay reader, is one of the best scientific pieces I've read in years. It puts man where he belongs. He is part of the cosmos, driven relentlessly by evolution and emerging by pure chance, not by any divine fiat. VU NGUYEN Chino Hills, Calif...
...story on the discovery of a new apelike human ancestor that walked upright induced monkeyshines in many of you. "Some of my forebears may have hung by their necks," chuckled a Los Angeles reader, "but none ever hung by their tails." A Kentuckian averred that "the evolutionary process has evidently gone into reverse. The scientists have devolved into baboons." And a South Carolina man hoped that "since TIME has firmly established our lineage, we may begin paying for our subscriptions in bananas...
...about creating my own virus, the first created by someone who is not the manufacturer of antivirus software. By "creating," I mean writing about it and hoping a reader makes it for me. The Stein Virus Variant A will find Web users over 60 and e-mail them my column every week. Stein Virus Variant B will infiltrate the AOL home page and jam it with a big story about what Erik Estrada is up to now. You can imagine how disheartened I was to discover that that's exactly what is already on the AOL home page...
...Doubtless there will be some speedy readers who won't mind the concept of renting a book for ten hours. For others, the idea of a book that can deliberately make itself unreadable at a given moment - no matter the reason - will have a disturbing, Farenheit 451-ish quality to it. Luckily, there's still an invention that will let you read the same book at no charge for two or three weeks, during which time you can lend it to as many friends and copy down as many passages as you wish: the public library. But how long such...