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...title of a Robert Ludlum novel but is rather a geeky delight that sits at the heart of the Web and e-mail revolution. Internet protocol (generally called IP) is a language computers use to talk to one another: a hyperefficient chatter that lets phone-company machines banter by sending digital data "packets" back and forth. These packages can contain anything--a frame of video, a few lines of a fax or a split second of conversation. The computers don't care what kind of data they are moving, which makes for a faster, cheaper way to send information...
Like letters at the post office, each packet is individually addressed. IP tells the network how to read the packets and where to send them. Unlike a traditional phone call, which sets up a circuit between two phones (think of the 1930s operator plugging wires into jacks), IP allows phone carriers simply to throw the packets onto a network, where they will be sorted and delivered by any one of thousands of machines (called routers), just as if they were postcards at a post office...
...revisions to their Internet browsers at a hellish pace, leapfrogging each other with new features so quickly that the things aren't adequately debugged. And now we learn that for the past year, their free e-mail programs have contained a dangerous defect that allows any bad guy to send e-mail that can crash your computer. (It's so easy, even...
...Bill Cheswick, a security expert at Bell Labs, argues that simple carelessness caused the glitch: "It's an old rookie mistake--something you get in freshman programming." The bug enables an evil-minded e-mailer to send an attachment whose file name can be an executable program thousands of lines long. Apparently, someone forgot to set a size limit on file names for attachments. Oops. While Microsoft and Netscape say they've yet to hear of any hackers exploiting the bug, "I would be surprised if there weren't some bad guys out there who already had this in their...
...doesn't help your local retailer pay the rent or salaries, and that means less money for employees' groceries and necessities. If local retail stores suffer and some are forced to close, there will be poorer local selection and services. More people will desert local merchants to send their consumer dollars to businesses and shippers who have no interest in or commitment to the buyer or community. GARY JARMAN Corvallis...