This attack thus presents a serious threat to bank security.

Ross Anderson's students are getting into the act.

(You can also find a mirror copy of this paper, with slightly different formatting, at http://cryptome.org/dtapc.pdf )

Decimalisation Table Attacks for PIN Cracking [PDF]

... kids aren't interested in music anymore; "it's about gaming and PlayStation."

Twilight of the CD? Not if It Can Be Reinvented

Read daily reports from the National Infrastructure Protection Center, which will become part of the Department of Homeland Security effective 1 March 2003.

Each report begins with a daily overview, followed by summarized news items (with supporting URLs to the full text) in each of fifteen industry-specific categories.

NIPC Daily Report

Here's how you can play music with your wireless network card.

Poor Man's Theremin

] On May 19, 1995, I received a standard-sized gray
] envelope, stuffed with what looked like, through a small
] cellophane window, a check for $95,093.35.

] The documents I had expected to make me cry actually
] made me laugh out loud. First Interstate Bank of
] California was abbreviated throughout as FICAL. An acronym
] pronounced as fecal, not fical, I thought. This is a fecal
] matter.

Bank Error In My Favor: Collect $95,000: Man 1, Bank 0

] The Dept of Homeland Security would like to take this
] opportunity to explain the current political situation to
] you all.

Kieran Healy's Weblog: Public Service Announcement

quoted:
Shut up, antiwar people. Shut up, pro-war people. Shut down your computers and shut your goddamn pieholes. No one gives a shit what you write, so stop writing about the war. Shut up, all of you.

Just Shut Up, Nobody gives a shit what anti-war or pro-war writers think. Really. So shut up. That goes double for poets. Shut the hell up, poets. Everybody just shut up., by (02/20/03)

Three hundred and sixty-seven years ago, a small band of men and women left behind their embattled city, struck out on their own, and created a new community. Guided by principles of fairness and individual liberty that would later find their way into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, they stood together to resist the social intolerance and government persecution of their time. Out of a wilderness, they built a village. Over the centuries, that village became the vibrant city we love.

Those of us who live and work in Providence feel a grateful

connection to our seventeenth century founding fathers and mothers. Indeed, all Americans owe them a debt for their visionary contribution to the principles of religious tolerance, free speech, and the right to self-determination. Honored more in the breach than in the observance in 1635, these ideas have since proven themselves among the most powerful forces for change in the history of humankind, capable of moving entire nations toward more humane, equitable and economically successful forms of society.

Mayor David Cicilline's Inaugural 2003 Address

By K. Alexa Mavromatis, Staff Writer

With national recognition as an accepting, liberal place to live and work, Providence is developing a reputation as a welcoming place for gays.

The city’s combination of education, art and a community that is accepting to gays is attracting entrepreneurs who are enhancing the retail, service and high tech industries, among others.

Gay Business Comfortable in R.I.

Israeli scientists have devised a computer that can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC. The secret: It runs on DNA.

A year ago, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, unveiled a programmable molecular computing machine composed of enzymes and DNA molecules instead of silicon microchips. Now the team has gone one step further. In the new device, the single DNA molecule that provides the computer with the input data also provides all the necessary fuel.

Computer Made from DNA and Enzymes