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From: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 08:42:27 +0800
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7-29-96. EBNews:
"Encryption ICs Enable Ironclad Net Security."
New encryption ICs on PCMCIA cards will be unveiled
imminently to allow PC users to make transactions over
the Internet with ironclad security. "This will open up
electronic commerce pervasively and launch a new market
for PCs," said TIS's Bill Sweet. Both National
Semiconductor and VLSI Technology plan to unveil
affordable chips shortly for PCMCIA encryption cards.
National's thumb-scan project, which aims to provide an
additional security factor, is a joint effort with
Identix. In this system, a holographic laser chip on the
card would image a portion of the holder's thumbprint.
That image will be compared with the holder's digital
thumbprint pattern stored on a memory chip in the card.
7-31-96. Jane's:
"Future Warfare | Rise of the robots."
A US Defense Science Board (DSB) task force is putting
the final touches to a study that members promise will
be one of the most controversial ever produced by the
panel. The next century adversary will aggressively use
offensive information warfare, rely on underground and
covert urban facilities and have some ability to attack
low earth orbiting satellites. It will require a
"revolution in military affairs" achieved through
enhanced surveillance capabilities, weapons of mass
destruction, thousands of inexpensive missiles, a few
very low observable cruise missiles, mines and diesel
submarines.
The only aspect of tactics and technology that everyone
in the DoD seems to agree on is that the most important
developments for warfighting over the next 10 to 20
years will be related to information systems.
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