] The CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology is
] celebrating its 40th anniversary by revealing a few dozen
] of its secrets for a new museum inside its headquarters
] near Washington.
]
] Keith Melton, a leading historian of intelligence, calls
] it "the finest spy musuem you'll never see." It is
] accessible only to CIA employees and guests admitted to
] those closed quarters

I'll bet Elonka gets to see this! I'm insanely jealous!! Take some pics with a "Mark IV Microdot" and post 'em, will ya? ;)

Laughing Boy

USATODAY.com - CIA gadgets: robot fish, pigeon camera, jungle microphones

] Diplomats from 191 countries meet this week in Geneva for
] the three-day United Nations World Summit on the
] Information Society. It's the occasion for The Helloworld
] Project to project thousands of 500-foot-high laser-light
] SMS messages onto the Geneva fountain.
]
] Internet users everywhere can post billboard thoughts
] almost instantly onto the fountain -- or onto the
] northern façade of New York's U.N. building, the face of
] a mountain in Rio de Janeiro or the front of a Bombay
] skyscraper.

It's like a sanctioned 2600 hack!

Go Tell It on the Mountain

] China's first manned space flight in October and its talk
] of a future landing on the Moon within the next two
] decades may end up being the spark to re-ignite the U.S.
] space program.

Thank GOD for Chinas space program.

U.S. eyes return to the Moon

] Startup MagiQ Technologies Inc. yesterday announced it's
] shipping what appears to be the first security system
] based on quantum cryptography.
]
] Quantum cryptography goes a step further than electronic
] cryptography through its employment of a stream of
] photons, the quantum properties of which determine the
] key. The fun part is that if an intruder observes or
] intercepts the transmission, those properties get changed
] -- an unavoidable principle of quantum mechanics --
] meaning the sender and receiver can tell if anyone is
] eavesdropping. Perhaps more important, the key can't be
] copied or faked (see Optical Science Gets Spookier and
] Quantum Cipher Sent by Fiber ).
]
] It's a potential breaththrough, though working with
] photons has never been easy, and, as the optical
] networking bubble has shown, it can be an expensive way
] to build technology.
]
] MagiQ's Navajo system, a box made to fit in a standard
] telecom rack, was unveiled in February and began beta
] trials in March.

Startup Says Quantum Crypto Is Real

] Like the Segway, Bombardier's Embrio concept--a prototype
] that may or may not make production--uses gyroscope
] technology to balance riders but adds a dash of flair
] absent in the Segway, which we as car nuts find slightly
] nerdy.

me want!

Canadian Segway

] While critics in the United States grow more concerned
] each day about the insecurity of electronic voting
] machines, Australians designed a system two years ago
] that addressed and eased most of those concerns: They
] chose to make the software running their system
] completely open to public scrutiny.

Wired News: Aussies Do It Right: E-Voting

] The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke
] diesel engine is the most powerful and most efficient
] prime-mover in the world today.

wow... 5,608,312 foot pounds of torque!!! Someone needs to build a muscle car with this engine...

The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World

] SunnComm Technologies Inc. (OTC: STEH), a leader in
] digital content security and enhancement for optical
] media, announced today that it intends to take legal
] action against the writer of a critical report titled:
] "Analysis of the MediaMax CD3 Copy-Prevention System."

CD 'shift-key' Hackers Sued

] A Princeton graduate student said Monday that he has
] figured out a way to defeat new software intended to keep
] music CDs from being copied on a computer %u2014 simply
] by pressing the Shift-key.
]
] In a paper posted on his Web site late Monday, John
] Halderman said the MediaMax CD3 software developed by
] SunnComm Technologies could be defeated on computers
] running the Windows operating system by holding down the
] Shift key, disabling a Windows feature that automatically
] launches the encryption software on the disc.
]
] Halderman said the protection could also be disabled by
] stopping the driver the CD installs when it is first
] inserted into a computer's drive.

LMFAO!!!

USATODAY.com - CD-copy protection system said to have simple flaw

] In the future, local rescuers arriving at an emergency
] will have wireless access to floor
] plans and other important details about the building.

Just like in Max Headroom

Responders to get instant access to critical data