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Thanks to hazzmat for sending this one my way: In this article a Microsoft exec by the name of Matusow states that the BIOS in many new PC's will pass 1/1/2000 but recorrupt itself exactly one year later. Server networks fed data from these recidivist PC's will be at risk. This all independent of the OS and application's compliance status. Hey, how come they say things like this abroad, but not here in the US ? Another reason to buy an iMac ?

Rodger Donaldson writes "According to this story, the security on most current GSM digital phones and smartcards could be compromised by deficiencies in the encoding scheme. Would more knowledgable /. readers care to comment on whether this is The Real Thing, or a storm in a teacup? "

Alex Tan sent us a link to something called NSBIOS. It's a new OS being used currently for stock market type stuff. Completely not backwards compatible, and written basically by one guy over 3 years, in assembler, the article claims it's amazingly fast. Certainly not something I'm going to use any time soon, but it looks kinda cool.