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...notice it's there. When they try to log on to a blocked site, they are presented with either a blank page or a standard error message that reads, "This page cannot be displayed." Cybersitter works on e-mail, instant messaging, newsgroups and file-sharing sites. A System Snooper feature enables you to scan your hard drive for evidence of "recent internet activity where potentially objectionable material has been accessed." One downside to Cybersitter: it doesn't work on Macs...
...about the police pursuing terrorists or serious criminals," says Roger Bingham, a spokesman for the human-rights group Liberty. "This raises the possibility of civil servants trawling through data collected for one purpose and used for another." The government rejects assertions that it is opportunistically creating a snooper's charter. "We're not talking about content of e-mails here," says a Home Office spokesman. "We're talking about dates and times of communications" - who contacted whom, and when. Requests for warrants to actually intercept content as part of a criminal investigation, he adds, would be subject to stringent criteria...
When the Pentagon announced last December that it was retiring the famed Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, it explained that satellites can do what the high- flying (100,000 ft.), 3,000-m.p.h. spy plane did and at less cost. But was the real reason that an even faster snooper is being developed in the Nevada desert? The 1986 defense budget contained a mysterious reference to the "Aurora" project. Now a prototype of the aircraft is reported to be rocking the desert with shock waves during test flights. Rumors say the Lockheed plane may be unmanned and can fly at speeds...
...rescue the eleven-ton Long Duration Exposure Facility, designed to test the effects of solar radiation on computer chips, by using the shuttle Columbia to retrieve it from orbit in December. A supersophisticated Air Force-CIA Key Hole spy satellite failed after deployment on Aug. 8. The $1 billion snooper is tumbling wildly, but the time of its demise cannot be predicted...
...precious. The author invents an alter ego , character who prods the legally lamed Ian Hamilton to get on with his project despite the court's restrictions on paraphrasing. He also takes the liberty of imagining what Salinger might say to him: "It is you I hate. You are a snooper and a thief...