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New nets heat up Antarctica
Antarctica is a desert on ice. Although the continent holds more than 90 percent of the world's ice, it only averages a few inches of precipitation annually and is one of the least friendly places on Earth for human habitation.
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Site to monitor global slave trade
The State Department is sponsoring a Web site to draw attention to the international crisis of trafficking in human beings
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Treaty portal to get power search
Those seeking treaty information on the State Department's portal will soon find a new search function that will include treaties, compliance, inspection and other data
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Cohen: Superpower status has a downside
Cyberwarfare and other security threats simply come with the territory when your country is the world's only remaining 'superpower,' Defense Secretary William Cohen told a group of veterans last week.
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CIA uses technology to reform culture of distrust
Intelligence experts and critics argue that the Internet has turned the notion of 'central intelligence,' as in the Central Intelligence Agency, into an oxymoron.
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Global governments shape e-economy
A report from an international policy and technology consulting firm looked at foreign nations' 'ereadiness' five strengths needed for an economy to function in an IT world
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Superpower status risks cyberattack
Cyberwarfare comes with the territory when your country is the world's only remaining 'superpower,' Defense Secretary William Cohen said
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Key space station tech still weak
Problems still exist in the development of displays for the International Space Station's primary command and control computers, NASA's Inspector General reported
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Lab certified to test security software
CygnaCom Solutions Inc.'s Security Evaluation Laboratory has been certified to test information security software based on international criteria
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Iraq foils high-tech weapons inspections
Iraq has dismantled an automated video surveillance monitoring system installed by the United Nations at several weapons facilities, the CIA reports
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Report: China to tax E-Commerce
The United States has a ban on Internet taxes, but China will not let electronic commerce go tax-free, the director of the country's State Administration of Taxation has said
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Lack of embassy e-mail 'laughable'
A Florida congressman argues that risks to American interests were too great not to wire the State Department's overseas missions
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U.S. updates encryption export policy
U.S. companies can now export any encryption product to any end user in the 15 European Union nations and eight other U.S. allies
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Still facing a Cold War chill
The Clinton administration must rethink arms control policies if it is to deploy a limited missileinterception system and avoid a nuclear arms control crisis with Russia, experts recently warned Congress.
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Army's foreign service
Under a recent U.S. policy shift in foreign military sales, an Army team is helping the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland and possibly the Philippines build military command and control infrastructures.
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Policies hinder uniting of nations' networks
Senior Pentagon officials last week singled out rigid security policies and lack of planning as two key lessons from the war in Kosovo that pose the greatest challenge to improving interoperability among allied forces' computer systems.
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Infosec poses allied communication challenge
The war in Kosovo offered examples of how lack of planning and restrictive security policies can hamper allied interoperability
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Failure to communicate
When the Pentagon released its new strategic road map last month that outlined how it plans to prepare for the hightech battlefields of the future, it confirmed what senior officials and experts have said for years: The U.S. needs its allies and coalition partners.
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