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My article on Phil Zimmermann and Network Associates from a year ago: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,12854,00.html "I never would have allowed my own company to join the Key Recovery Alliance," Zimmermann told me yesterday. "As soon as I found out about McAfee being a member, I tried to do something about it." -Declan ******* Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:15:01 -800 From: Wired News Daily <wiredmail-info@wired.com> Wired News - a must-read for the latest information and commentary on our rapidly changing digital world. W I R E D N E W S Top Stories - 12:27pm 12.Nov.98.PST - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAI BACK IN KEY RECOVERY GROUP (TECH. 12:27 pm) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/technology/story/16219.html After pulling out last year to avoid negative political fallout, Network Associates is back in the Key Recovery Alliance, a group that promotes a controversial data-recovery technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HELL ON FRISCO BAY (BUS. 12:27 pm) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/business/story/16218.html Microsoft files six lawsuits against San Francisco Bay Area companies for allegedly selling counterfeit software. Also: Microsoft is considering taking a stake in Audible, maker of a player for audio books and magazines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARKET UPDATE (WRLD 12:27 pm) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/story/16220.html US stocks were mixed in late Thursday trading, with no resolution in sight over the crisis in Iraq. The Wired Index slipped 2.65 to 422.15, the Nasdaq lost 6.75 to 1855.36, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 22.39 to 8846.21. Europe: The UK's FTSE tumbled 27.80 to 5449.00, and the German DAX lost 77.81 to 4639.89. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRITISH TELECOM BUILDS ON MCI (BUS. 8:22 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/business/story/16214.html After realizing a US$1.8 billion profit from its investment in MCI/Worldcom, British Telecom will combine MCI's Concert business unit with an existing AT&T partnership. By R. Scott Raynovich. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TV V. NET: NOT A ZERO-SUM GAME (CULT. 7:46 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/culture/story/16207.html Nielsen says gaining Internet access doesn't necessarily lead to "substantially" less television viewing. So far. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PLUGGING IN PRINCE CHARLES (CULT. 7:46 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/culture/story/16208.html Seeking an "unfiltered way" to speak to his subjects, Prince Charles creates a Web site of his own. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TOBACCO TAX (WRLD 7:46 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/story/16209.html It took awhile, but Rob Reiner beat big tobacco. The movie director declared victory Wednesday for the California voter initiative he wrote, which would raise cigarette taxes to pay for children's programs. There are still a few absentee ballots to plow through, but eight days after the polls closed the measure's lead had grown to 57,070 votes among more than 7.6 million ballots counted, ensuring that the state's per-pack pinch will rise from 37 to 87 cents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LABOR MARKET: SOFT (WRLD 7:46 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/story/16210.html The number of newly idled workers filing for unemployment benefits jumped by 12,000 last week to the highest level since the summer, the US Labor Department said Thursday. Initial jobless claims, a figure that gives an early reading on the resilience of the labor market, rose to 321,000 in the week ended 7 November. Wall Street analysts had forecast a slight rise to 311,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHINA'S ANGER (WRLD 7:46 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/story/16211.html Beijing's propaganda machine, reacting to the Dalai Lama's White House visit this week, is portraying the exiled Tibetan leader as a manipulator hungry for sympathy and support of the international community. "The Dalai Lama show, staged again in the United States with the usual ploy of 'drop-by' meetings with White House politicians, is nothing but a public relations farce, despite the bluff and bluster of the Western media frenzy," the official China Daily wrote Thursday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THAT SETTING SUN (WRLD 7:46 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/story/16212.html Sterling is the only currency quoted in front of today's money standard, the dollar -- a reflection of a bygone era when most world trade was done in pounds. But when the single European currency begins trading on 4 January, sterling will fall to No. 2: It'll be a question of one euro being worth 0.70 pounds, more or less, rather than a pound being worth 1.42 euros. "I'm sure it will be seen by some as being the final nail in the coffin," said British economist Richard Jeffrey. "But realistically, who cares?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GOYA GIRLS (WRLD 7:46 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/story/16213.html For centuries, the only way to get to a dozen Goya frescoes at the Aula Dei monastary in northern Spain was to pass through monks' living quarters. That was a major no-no, a violation of the monks' vows. But this week Queen Sofia inaugurated a specially built passageway, one that allows entry to the 18th century works from the outside. Women are in, monks are safe, everyone's happy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FEDEX STRIKE MAY FREEZE E-SALES (BUS. 3:00 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/business/story/16192.html With visions of e-dollars dancing in their heads, online retailers worry that a strike by pilots will affect holiday deliveries. By Polly Sprenger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SILICON MATCHMAKING (TECH. 3:00 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/technology/story/16205.html NASA and the microprocessor big boys meet to pair the esoteric science of nanotechnology with the prosperous world of silicon chip production. By Niall McKay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHIP DIP OVER IN 1999 (BUS. Wednesday) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/business/story/16204.html The worldwide semiconductor industry will grow next year, after one of the worst in a decade, according to an industry group. Investors boost chip stocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VIRUS THRIVES ON HTML (TECH. Wednesday) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/technology/story/16206.html A new demonstration virus is the first to exploit the language of Web pages. Observers say it's a new frontier for malicious computer code. By Chris Oakes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NETSCAPE SNAGS ATWEB (BUS. Wednesday) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/business/story/16190.html Netscape spends US$95 million in stock for a software company to bolster its own small business offerings.... Also: Oracle agrees to buy Concentra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GATES LASHES BACK AT GOVERNMENT (POL. Wednesday) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/politics/story/16200.html Chairman Bill tells shareholders he has "incredible respect" for the US justice system, but wonders why the government is taking his enemies' side. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A 'CROSSING GUARD' FOR NET HATE (CULT. Wednesday) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/culture/story/16197.html A watchdog organization develops software to block racist and anti-semitic sites from the eyes of young netsurfers. Is filtering hate speech a slippery slope? By Steve Silberman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PATENT MAY THREATEN E-PRIVACY (TECH. Wednesday) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/technology/story/16180.html A Seattle company says that pending patents will require anyone using Web privacy technology P3P to pay the company royalties. That could have wider repercussions. By Chris Oakes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - FREE DOWNLOADS, PC INFO, AND MORE! Join the Intel Owner's club and get access to the latest information for your PC - from Intel. 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