Tasty Bits from the Technology Front

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Tasty Bits from the Technology Front

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Tasty Bits from the Technology Front is a weekly email-based newsletter. 
bringing you bellwethers in computer and communications technology, with
special attention to commerce on the Internet.

6/12/97 And now, every day a new fresh-baked Tasty Bit, served up right
here on the Web! 

TBTF is offered free of charge to the Internet community as a service of
the Technology Front, a consultancy solving problems at the nexus of
Internet technology, business, and marketing.

Recent Contents:

Contents

     Ping Flood attacks -- A program called Smurf uses
     laser-like amplification to tie up target systems; it may be
     responsible for outages at a major Internet switching center 

     A meeting on domain names -- All sides met and talked in
     Washington, making progress but arriving at no final
     resolution 

     Four horsemen not riding yet -- A study intended to
     uncover deleterious effects of encryption on criminal
     investigations finds none, so far 

     An alliance against free software (?) stumbles --

     Separated at birth -- Just what you need, yet another
     weekly newsletter brimming with technology news and
     analysis 

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