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RadTimes # 50 - September, 2000
aka "Shit That Matters"
An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.
"We're living in rad times!"
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Contents:
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--IMF Meeting Closes Early
--IMF Wraps Up First Part of Meeting a Day Early
--Capitalism And Communism Look Equally Bad In Prague
--2 Prague stories
--SPJ statement on NAB expulsion of journalists
--Broadcasters celebrate big gains from violence and greed
--Humans destroying the natural world
--Processor Makers Embrace On-Chip Encryption Technologies
Linked stories:
*The LAPD's Rampart coverup
*Counterintelligence Legislation Critiqued
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Begin stories:
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IMF Meeting Closes Early
By HANS GREIMEL, The Associated Press
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (Sept 27) - The weary captains of global capitalism
said Wednesday they were finishing the annual summit of the IMF and World
Bank one day early, but insisted their business was done and they had not
been derailed by violent street protests.
Bank officials were reading final statements early Wednesday evening, saying
their only business Thursday, the original closing day, would be to hold a
news conference.
''They moved more quickly than anticipated - they finished ahead of time,''
said David Hawley, a spokesman for the International Monetary Fund. ''It has
nothing to do with the protests.''
The mood Wednesday morning had been decidedly glum, but Hawley said the
finance officials had not canceled any speeches or meetings before they got
to the close.
Delegates had filed past metal barriers and thousands of police, with some
worried for their safety in the wake of raging street riots the day before
that trashed the city center.
Martin G. Dlamini, central bank governor from Swaziland, said he had canceled
a business meeting outside the massive convention center because he was told
by authorities it was not safe.
''Whether these protesters will attack us - they may,'' Dlamini said. ''We
from less developed countries understand some of the issues being raised. But
this does not give us strength.''
Still, like many of the 14,000 other delegates at the joint annual meeting of
the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, Dlamini hoped to use day two
for tackling issues of debt relief and the war on poverty.
Trouble in the streets broke out again early Wednesday when dozens of people
scuffled with police outside a hotel where IMF and World Bank delegates were
staying. Authorities quickly pushed the angry crowd away from the building,
and police spokesman Jiri Suttner said about 100 activists were detained -
raising the overall number of detentions to more than 500.
Later, about 300 or 400 protesters began marching from a town square toward
the police station, but were stopped by anti-riot police. The activists
retreated to a town square, where they began cheering when they heard the
meetings were closing early.
Protest leaders said they were caught off guard by the end of the meeting,
but were quick to try to claim credit.
''If that is true I am really excited about it - that would be a real
success,'' said Cyanne Loyle with the Initiative Against Economic
Globalization, which had organized the mass demonstrations Tuesday intended
to echo those at financial meetings in Seattle and Washington.
Street protests raged a day earlier, with activists throwing Molotov
cocktails and rocks at riot police, who responded with tear gas and water
cannons. The fighting left more than 70 people injured, including 55 police
officers.
Police said Wednesday they believed 12,000 protesters had been on hand, far
more than the estimate of 5,000 they used Tuesday.
Top IMF and World Bank officials insisted the demonstrators had it all wrong
- that the agencies are not the enemies of the world's 2.8 billion poor but
the biggest lenders to poor countries needing cash infusions.
Representatives from the 182 assembled nations tried to give their own spin
on the protests, saying images of hooded anarchists hurling rocks at
black-clad riot police did not taint the image of the Washington-based
lending groups.
That's despite the fact that turmoil trails their meetings, with
anti-globalization activists wreaking havoc at the spring gathering in
Washington.
''This has been an exception rather than the rule,'' IMF spokesman William
Murray said early Wednesday. ''We found the actions Tuesday in Prague
deplorable.''
IMF and World Bank officials have been scrambling to refashion the annual
program to place greater emphasis on poverty reduction, hoping to blunt
claims that two giant bureaucracies exist mainly to do the bidding of the
rich countries holding a majority of voting shares.
World Bank President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler
insisted Tuesday their institutions have heeded the calls of responsible
critics for reform and more openness.
But some delegates said that's not enough, and expressed sympathy for the
protesters.
''It helps bring the cause to the forefront and helps public opinion in the
countries where it matters,'' said Mawampanga Mwana Nanga, IMF governor from
the Congo, a country buried in $18 billion in foreign debt.
Nanga said it was especially important to be vocal in rich countries such as
the United States, saying violence was sometimes needed to wake them from
their slumber.
A delegate from tiny Papua New Guinea, watching the smoke drift across the
city, said he felt the demonstrators had a point in trying to raise the
awareness of poverty issues.
''We are hoping the developing world will be listened to,'' said Vele Iamo.
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IMF Wraps Up First Part of Meeting a Day Early
By Janet Guttsman
Reuters
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (Sept. 27) - The International Monetary Fund and World
Bank wrapped up their formal annual meetings a day early on Wednesday,
cutting a morning of speeches from their three-day agenda after talks marred
by violent protests.
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, the chairman of this year's
meeting, said 47 formal set piece speeches from finance ministers and central
bank chiefs had been concluded ``in record time.''
Highlighting the challenges of economic stability, equity and the need to
reform the two global lenders, he added, ``Our task is to turn words into
deeds, and in this, we cannot fail.''
Officials stressed that bilateral meetings would continue on Thursday, the
day originally scheduled for closing speeches by Manuel and others, and IMF
Managing Director Horst Koehler told CNN Television the schedule change was
not due to the protests.
``Our very efficient chairman made a proposal to the plenary whether we
should end today, and we agreed,'' he said.
But World Bank vice president Mats Carlsson admitted the demonstrations had
encouraged the decision to move the closing ceremonies ahead a day.
``We are having a consensus on many of the development issues, but it
probably is also prompted by the demonstrations yesterday,'' Carlsson told
Reuters Television.
``But today everything is calm and some things will still be going on
tomorrow.''
Tuesday, the first day of the meetings, was dominated by running battles
between police and anti-capitalism activists who argued that the two global
lenders were worsening the lot of the poor and suggesting the wrong ways to
solve countries' problems.
At the height of the battle protesters stormed to within yards of the edge of
the secure zone surrounding Prague Congress Center, lobbing cobblestones at
delegates and pelting them with eggs. Some 55 police officers and a few dozen
demonstrators were injured in a day and a night of fighting.
``I share with my colleagues the feeling of distress from the problems that
have arisen on the streets,'' World Bank President James Wolfensohn said in
his closing address to delegates. ``We regret that there were those whose
sole purpose was destruction, which colored the currents outside these
buildings.''
Almost 12,000 police were drafted in to protect the delegates and quell the
protests. Many delegates have already left and the bill to pay the police on
Thursday -- a public holiday in the Czech Republic -- would have been
enormous.
INPEG, the main protest group, said it was delighted that things were winding
up ahead of time.
``I don't know whether this is directly our achievement but we surely
contributed to it,'' said spokeswoman Alice Dvorska.
INPEG had promised to keep its protests peaceful, and Dvorska said she was
unhappy about the violence.
The protesters, wielding sticks and hurling stones torn from Prague's cobbled
streets, had briefly besieged the Congress Center on Tuesday until they were
driven back by police using truncheons, tear gas, dogs and stun grenades.
Delegates deplored the violence and gave their support to the IMF and World
Bank, institutions which the protesters insisted should close down.
``Violence has no place in a civilized society and I stand here on behalf of
India, the land of Mahatma Gandhi who espoused the cause of nonviolence, and
I condemn the violence which was unleashed here yesterday,'' Indian Finance
Minister Yashwant Sinha told fellow delegates.
``Whether the IMF and the World Bank exist or do not exist is a matter which
will be decided by the will of the 182 countries who are represented here,
not by a handful of hoodlums in the streets of Prague.''
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Capitalism And Communism Look Equally Bad In Prague
Published on Wednesday, September 27, 2000 in the Toronto Globe & Mail
by Naomi Klein
What seems to most enrage the delegates to the meeting of the World Bank and
the International Monetary Fund in Prague this week is the idea that they
even have to discuss the basic benefits of free-market globalization.
That discussion was supposed to have stopped in 1989, when the Wall fell and
history ended. Only here they all are -- old people, young people, thousands
of them -- literally storming the barricades of their extremely important
summit.
And as the delegates peer over the side of their ill-protected fortress at
the crowds below, scanning signs that say "Capitalism Kills," they look
terribly confused. Didn't these strange people get the memo? Don't they
understand that we all already decided that free-market capitalism was the
last, best system? Sure, it's not perfect, and everyone inside the meeting
is awfully concerned about all those poor people and the environmental mess,
but it's not like there's a choice -- is there?
For the longest time, it seemed as if there were only two political models:
Western capitalism and Soviet communism. When the USSR collapsed, that left
only one alternative, or so it seemed. Institutions like the World Bank and
IMF have been busily "adjusting" economies in Eastern Europe and Asia to
help them get with the program: privatizing services, relaxing regulation of
foreign corporations, building huge export industries.
All this is why it is so significant that yesterday's head-on attack against
the ideology ruling the World Bank and the IMF happened here, in the Czech
Republic. This is a country that has lived through both economic
orthodoxies, where the Lenin busts have been replaced by Pepsi logos and
McDonald's arches.
Many of the young Czechs I met this week say that their direct experience
with communism and capitalism has taught them that the two systems have
something in common: They both treat people as if they are less than fully
human. Where communism saw them only as potential producers, capitalism sees
them only as potential consumers; where communism starved their beautiful
capital, capitalism has overfed it, turning Prague into a Velvet Revolution
theme park.
The experience of growing up disillusioned with both systems helps explain
why so many of the activists behind this week's protests call themselves
"anarchists." Anarchism is an ideology that defines itself by being fiercely
non-ideological. It rejects externally imposed rules and argues that we are
impoverished, as individuals and as communities, by overwork and
overconsumption.
Most of us carry a mess of negative biases about anarchists. But the truth
is that most are less interested in hurling projectiles than in finding ways
to lead simple, autonomous lives. They call it "freedom."
So what do the lifestyle choices of a small (but growing) radical subculture
have to do with the allegations being made against the World Bank and the
IMF? Everything.
Far from simply demanding debt relief, the mass protests against the Bank
and Fund are now driven by more fundamental demands: the elimination of both
institutions, and of the economic beliefs that drive their every decision.
Over the past decade, a critical mass of communities in poor countries have
questioned the Bank's belief that large-scale "development" always equals
"improvement."
The people coming forward have been displaced by World-Bank-funded mega-dams
and had their water systems polluted by World-Bank-funded mines.
Are these people Communists? A few. But most aren't capitalists either. They
are tapping into something different, and much older. The young anarchists
in Prague, also gathered here from around the world, have tapped into it
too.
The Indian writer Arundhati Roy put it best, writing about her crusade
against a World-Bank-funded dam: "Perhaps what the 21st century has in store
for us is the dismantling of the Big. Big bombs, big dams, big heroes, big
mistakes. Perhaps it will be the Century of the Small."
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2 Prague stories
<http://www.rferl.org/newsline/3-cee.html>
HEAVY CASUALTIES AFTER OPENING OF IMF/WORLD BANK MEETING
IN PRAGUE. Doctors had to treat 61 policemen, 31 participants in
the annual IMF/World bank meeting, and 65 rioters after the
first day of clashes in Prague, CTK reported on 27 September.
Fifteen of the rioters have remained in hospital, three of
them for the over-consumption of drugs. Reuters on 27
September reported that a total of 422 rioters have been
detained. Police had to use tear gas and water cannons in
their attempts to disperse the rioters, a number of whom
moved in the late afternoon to downtown Prague. The
protesters attacked buildings housing "international
corporation symbols" such as McDonald's, Kentucky Fried
Chicken, C&A, and Mercedes-Benz in the vicinity of Wenceslas
Square. Two branches of the Czech IPB bank were also
attacked. Underground transportation in Prague was partly
interrupted as a precaution. MS
CZECH PRESIDENT, POLITICIANS DENOUNCE VIOLENCE. Vaclav
Havel on 26 September denounced the activities of radical activists
protesting the IMF/World Bank meeting in town and called on
all participants in the protest "to quit the violent forms
that have already claimed dozens of injured." CTK reported.
Parliamentary chairman and leader of the opposition Civic
Democratic Party (ODS) Vaclav Klaus and ODS Deputy Chairman
Ivan Langer expressed "resolute support for police
intervention against the breach of public safety, destruction
of property, and violence against citizens." The organizers
of the main groups participating in the protest also
distanced themselves from the rioters. Initiative Against
Economic Globalization spokesman Viktor Piorecky stressed
that only 1 percent of demonstrators took part in the violent
actions. He also said that police violence "predominated on
Prague streets" and that police had attacked groups of
demonstrators "without any reason." MS
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SPJ statement on NAB expulsion of journalists
Sept. 27, 2000
CONTACT:
Randy Lyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Co-chair, Freedom of Information Committee
Society of Professional Journalists, No. Calif. chapter
Statement of SPJ Northern California Chapter on the Sept. 22 expulsion of
journalists from NAB convention in San Francisco
The Society of Professional Journalists is shocked and embarrassed by the
expulsion of several reporters from the National Association of Broadcasters
convention in San Francisco last week. As an organization that depends on
the First Amendment for its own survival, the NAB has set a very bad example
for other individuals and organizations to follow. What happens now if a
presidential candidate or a political party decides to expel working
journalists in response to coverage that is perceived as unfavorable? They
can point to the NAB, which apparently retaliated against the reporters --
who published articles critical of the association -- by stripping them of
their credentials and having the police remove them from the convention hall.
There appears to have been some confusion and irregularities concerning the
issuance and use of press credentials, but that fact alone would not seem to
justify the NAB's heavy-handed response. What's appalling is that an
organization that lives and dies by the First Amendment showed a surprising
lack of respect for the principles of free speech and expression. The NAB's
hypocrisy in refusing to tolerate dissent sets a very bad example, and we
call on the organization to apologize for its misbehavior -- and not trot
out some laughable excuse about the lack of proper stickers on cameras. If a
network news photographer had been expelled from a convention on similar
grounds, the NAB would be screaming and demanding a federal investigation.
Tim Graham
Society of Professional Journalists
President, Northern California Chapter
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Broadcasters celebrate big gains from violence and greed
By Norman Solomon
September 14, 2000
Does America have a military-industrial-media complex?
Whether you consider the question in terms of psychology or economics,
some grim answers are available from the National Association of
Broadcasters, a powerful industry group that just held its radio
convention in San Francisco.
When a recent Federal Trade Commission report faulted media companies for
marketing violence to children, various politicians expressed outrage. But
we've heard little about the NAB -- a trade association with a fitting
acronym. The NAB has a notable record of nabbing the public airwaves for
private gain.
Nearly 40 years ago, a farewell speech by President Dwight Eisenhower
warned about the "conjunction of an immense military establishment and a
large arms industry." He said: "In the councils of government, we must
guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or
unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the
disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." That
potential has been realized, with major help from media.
Rather than scrutinize the merchants of militarism, large news
organizations have been inclined to embrace them. (In some cases, as with
General Electric and NBC, the arms contractor and the network owner are
one and the same.) The Pentagon's key vendors can rest assured that big TV
and radio outlets will function much more as allies than adversaries.
On television, the recruitment ads for the armed forces symbolize the cozy
-- and lucrative -- ties between the producers of fantasy violence and the
planners of massive carnage. Military leaders have good reasons to
appreciate the nation's entertainment media for encouraging public
acceptance of extreme violence.
In practice, big money rules the airwaves, and that's the way the NAB
likes it. The industry is swinging its mighty lobbying arm to knock down a
proposal -- approved by the Federal Communications Commission -- to
license low-power radio stations. The specter of community-based
"microbroadcasting" worries the NAB, which sees wealth as a vital
precondition for control of broadcast frequencies.
But the NAB has championed some new laws, like the landmark
Telecommunications Act of 1996 that made it possible for a single
corporation to own several radio stations in the same city -- and hundreds
of stations across the country. Now, more than ever, cookie-cutter
stations from coast to coast are beaming identical syndicated garbage to
millions of listeners.
With autumn getting underway, the NAB convention's keynote speaker was a
former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "Colin Powell is a true
national hero," said NAB's president.
Powell won great media acclaim for overseeing the Gulf War slaughter of
Iraqi people -- 200,000 of them in a six-week period, according to a
Pentagon estimate. At the time, America's broadcasters and their cable
television colleagues presented the bloodshed as a glorious exercise of
military prowess -- rendered on TV screens as dramatic video games.
Political bluster tells us that children should not be desensitized by
media images of simulated violence -- but it's A-OK to depict the real
thing as a big feather in the nation's patriotic cap. The
military-industrial-media complex takes its toll with deeply ingrained
patterns of newspeak and doublethink. Orwell recognized such patterns long
ago.
American media's high comfort level with sanctioned violence -- imaginary
or real -- has a numbing effect on people of all ages. Meanwhile, the
dominant weave of propaganda and militarism is, for some, a brocade
embossed with gold.
Since September 1998, Powell has been on the management board of America
Online. Nine months ago, the retired general voted with other members of
the board to approve AOL's purchase of Time Warner.
Gen. Powell holds AOL stock options worth $13.3 million. His son Michael
Powell -- one of the five FCC commissioners -- has refused to recuse
himself from the agency's pending vote on whether to approve the merger of
AOL and Time Warner.
Dissent was not on the agenda at the NAB convention. But I was glad to be
among more than a thousand people who protested nearby, in the streets of
San Francisco, to confront the dire centralization of media ownership.
Articles probing the current clout of America's broadcast industry are
posted at <www.mediademocracynow.org> -- a website that's unlikely to be
mentioned on the national airwaves. One of the most insidious prerogatives
of radio and TV giants is that they largely filter out news about
challenges to their own power.
----
Norman Solomon's book "The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media"
won the 1999 George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution
to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, presented by the National
Council of Teachers of English.
Norman Solomon's archived columns may be found at
<http://www.fair.org/media-beat/index.html>
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Humans destroying the natural world
by Paul Brown
Guardian 8/10/98
HUMANS have destroyed more than 30 per cent of the natural world
since 1970 with serious depletion of the forest, freshwater and marine systems
on which life depends.
Consumption pressure from increasing affluence has doubled in the
past 25 years and continues to accelerate, according to a ground-breaking
report
from the World Wide Fund for Nature, the New Economics Foundation, and the
World
Conservation Monitoring Centre at Cambridge.
The Living Planet Report says that the acceleration in environmental
destruction shows that politicians who have been paying lip service to
sustainable development have done little to promote it. "Time is running
out for us to
change the way we live if we are to leave future generations a living
planet," Nick
Mabey, WWF's economic policy officer, said at the launch of the report in
London
last week. "We knew it was bad, but until we did this report we did not
realise how
bad."
One of the most serious problems revealed for the first time is the
depletion of freshwater resources with half of the accessible supplies
being used
by humans - double the amount of 1960. The rate of decline of freshwater
eco-systems is running at 6 per cent a year, threatening to dry up many
wetlands,
and push the species of those habitats to extinction.
The report says that governments should increase the efficiency of
their water use, and stop wasteful irrigation schemes where water losses
are highest.
Carbon dioxide emissions have doubled in the same period, and, being
far in excess of the natural world's ability to absorb them, are accelerating
global warming.
Global consumption of wood and paper has increased by two-thirds, and
most forests are managed unsustainably. In the same period, marine fish
consumption has also more than doubled, and most of the world's fish resources
are either fully exploited or in decline.
Although Western countries have high consumption rates, some of the
developing countries are depleting their natural resources at an alarming rate.
The people of Taiwan, the United States and Singapore are singled out as the
world's most voracious consumers, responsible for depleting the Earth's
resources
faster than other countries. Britain comes 41st in the list of more than 130
countries.
The report says that though governments are failing to take action to
protect croplands and resources, every individual bears a responsibility for
being careless with the world's resources.
Dr Norman Myers, of Green College, Oxford, said: "As the world
becomes economically richer, it becomes environmentally poorer. Many people
have known this for a long time, but they have sometimes lacked evidence of a
comprehensive and compelling sort. More power then to WWF for documenting our
declining prospect in such fine grain detail."
Although the report says that a growing population is part of the
problem, increased consumption has been the main problem. The average North
American or Japanese consumes 10 times as much of the world's resources as the
average Bangladeshi. Japan and Bangladesh have the same populations but have a
vastly different effect on the world's eco-systems, particularly in timber
and fish
consumption.
The average North American resident consumes fives times as much as
an African and three times as much as an Asian. However, in total Asia takes
more of the Earth's resources because there are 3.2 billion Asians compared
with
only 0.3 billion North Americans.
The Swiss billionaire industrialist Dr Stephan Schidheiny, who is
president of the Avina Foundation, said: "This index indicates a serious
decline in
the health of the Earth's ecological balance sheet, which reflects our
imprudent and
inefficient use of natural resources. To restore its ecological health, we
must ensure
that our consumption and production of food, water, materials and energy are
within the Earth's carrying capacity now, and in the future."
He said people could help save the planet and save themselves money
through energy efficiency, reducing waste, using water sparingly and not
contaminating it, and by avoiding unnecessary trips in vehicles.
Gro Harlem Brundtland, head of the World Health Organisation, said:
"This quantifies for the first time a scary decline in the health of the
world's forest, freshwater and marine ecosystems. It shows we have lost
nearly a
third of the Earth's natural wealth since 1970."
Sir Ghillian Prance, director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew,
said: "The index presents a warning which we should all take most seriously
because it charts an alarming decline in the health of natural forest,
freshwater
and marine ecosystems over the past 30 years.
"The conservation of natural ecosystems is not a luxury which only
the rich can afford, but is essential to ensure the maintenance of the vital
ecological functions of our planet upon which we all depend for our survival."
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Processor Makers Embrace On-Chip Encryption Technologies
<http://www.electronicnews.com/enews/news/4854-271NewsDetail.asp>
By Mark Long, e-inSITE
Sep 27, 2000 --- Information security concerns surrounding the use of the
Internet for e-commerce have led several microprocessor manufacturers to
embed encryption algorithms and other information protection strategies into
their latest chip offerings.
Chip manufacturers are embracing the use of mathematical algorithms that
serve as the electronic keys for unlocking consumer credit card accounts and
a variety of intellectual property products from music sound tracks to
e-books. Some of the latest high-security chips will also feature ID codes
that identify the specific machine that is receiving any secure download. In
these respects, the embedded microprocessor world's transition to high
security parallels the development of security systems for television that
the American cable and satellite TV industries began adopting during the
mid- to late-1980s.
At this week's Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Motorola unveiled a
family of information security processors that offer support for Bulk Data
and Public Key encryption. The MPC180 and MPC180e have been designed to
offload the processing of IP Security Protocol (IPSEC), Internet Key
Exchange (IKE), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Wired Access Protocol (WAP), and
Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS) protocols. Motorola says that its
security technology has been designed to support performance up to 351
Mbit/s for the Triple Data Encryption Standard (3-DES) Bulk Data Encryption,
and 363 Mbit/s on SHA-1 authentication.
The MPC180 offers Public Key performance with an expected signature time of
32ms for RSA supporting up to 13 IKE connections per second. In addition to
the RSA support, the MPC180e offers Elliptic Curve Cryptography performance
with an anticipated 11ms signature time that can process up to 45.5 IKE
connections per second.
Both the MPC180 and the MPC180e have been designed for integration into
systems already using host, integrated, and network processors from
Motorola. The devices feature a glueless interface to the local 8xx bus for
the MPC8260, and also to the 60x bus operating at 50 and 66 MHz,
respectively.
Packaged in 100-pin LQFP, the suggested price for the MPC180 processor is
$16.25 in 10,000 unit quantities. Samples will be available in 4Q00. For the
MPC180e, the suggested price is $20.25 for 10,000 quantities with samples
also available in 4Q00.
Cirrus Logic Inc. also used this year's Embedded Systems Conference as the
launching pad for its latest Maverick processor. The EP7312 has been
designed to store and process specific hardware IDs, such as those assigned
for Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) or any other authentication
mechanism. Through the use of a security technology called MaverickKey, a
permanent SDMI specific 32-bit ID and a 128-bit permanent random ID can be
programmed into the device through the use of laser probe technology.
Cirrus claims that having these unique IDs on-chip provides more robust
security than typical systems where these IDs would be outside the chip. In
addition, MaverickKey allows the most sensitive part of security firmware to
be executed on-chip for added security. The Maverick chip also incorporates
hardware and software protection against unauthorized invasion by "locking"
the chip from the inside out with the "keys" inside.
Meanwhile, Broadcom Corporation has rolled out CryptoNET, a processor chip
that the company says dramatically accelerates the processing of secure
e-commerce transactions over Internet Information Servers running Windows
2000.
A single BCM5820 CryptoNET processor can reportedly sustain up to 1,000
Public Key (1,024-bit RSA) transactions per second. Multiple chips may also
be added onto a single PCI card, as well as onto multiple PCI cards
installed within a single system, to scale any BCM5820 enabled server to
handle thousands of RSA transactions per second.
The BCM5820 reduces all the required functions into a single 256-pin TBGA
chip, with no external components or memory required. The BCM5820 also
reportedly accelerates the ARCFOUR, 3DES and DES symmetric algorithms and
supports MD-5, SHA-1, and random number generation through a 32/64-bit,
33/66-MHz PCI 2.2 interface.
The BCM5820 is packaged in a 256-pin TBGA and will sample to lead customers
beginning in October, with production quantities available in November.
Sample quantity pricing is $200.
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The LAPD's Rampart coverup
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/09/27/rampart/index.html?CP=SAL&DN=665>
A veteran detective says Chief Bernard Parks had evidence of the scandal a
year before
it was revealed, but kept it from the district attorney -- and the public.
By Jan Golab
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Counterintelligence Legislation Critiqued
<http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2000/09/ct2000.html>
The proposed Counterterrorism Act of 2000, which may be included in the
pending Intelligence Authorization Act, contains several provisions that
"pose grave threats to constitutional rights," according to civil liberties
groups. Two provisions in particular, they say, tend to erode the dividing
line between foreign intelligence collection and law enforcement.
The objections are described in a September 25 letter to the Senate
Intelligence Committee from the ACLU, the Center for Democracy and
Technology, and the Center for National Security Studies.
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"Anarchy doesn't mean out of control. It means out of 'their' control."
-Jim Dodge
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"Communications without intelligence is noise;
intelligence without communications is irrelevant."
-Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC
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-J. Krishnamurti
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