Serbs take offensive in the first cyberwar, bombing America; unsolicited e-mail hits targets baffled to be contacted; no end to the 'Yugospam.'

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As NATO continues air strikes against Serbia, over 10,000 Internet users in the U.S. and elsewhere have been bombarded with electronic mail from at least 25 computers in Yugoslavia, attacking the NATO bombing campaign. When recipients of the unwanted 'spam' from Serbia ask to be removed from the Serbian mailing lists, often copies of those requests are subsequently forwarded to all those who originally received the first unwanted message, which in turn propagates yet more messages from other sources. The quantity of unsolicited e-mail from Serbia is prodigious. At present, for example, e-mail between the 6,500 names on the mailing list of an association in Belgrade is ricocheting around the world. Some recipients have reported receiving up to 20 e-mails every half hour. The Serbs who are conducting the 'cyberassault' claim that it is the only way to fight back as NATO bombs their country. Individuals and companies receiving the unwanted barrage of boomeranging messages have resorted to screening out all e-mail they receive from addresses ending in 'yu.' One Internet service provider, MindSpring Enterprises Inc., now blocks mail sent into its service from spammers in Yugoslavia, and has shut down several e-mail addresses associated with one offender, the Belgrade Academic Association for Equal Rights in the World.

Yugoslavia, Equipment and supplies, Electronic mail systems, E-mail, Email, Email software, United States foreign relations, War and society, Society, Wars, Records and correspondence, NATO-Yugoslavia Conflict, 1999, Yugoslavian foreign relations, Serbs, International communication, Serbia, International correspondence

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Linux takes Hollywood as Microsoft, SGI trail

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The new computer animated motion picture titled "Shrek" has become a credit to the Linux operating system that DreamWorks SKG opted to use over other operating systems like those from Microsoft Corp. or Silicon Graphics Inc. Even George Lucas, maker of "Star Wars" has planned to replace almost half of its SGI workstation with Linux based-hardware.

Electronic computers, Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Strategy & planning, Computers & Auxiliary Equip, Systems Software Pkgs (Micro), Motion picture & video production, Motion Picture Production, Motion Picture and Video Production, Analysis, Computer industry, Microsoft Corp., Operating system, Operating systems (Software), Operating systems, Motion picture industry, Movie industry, Silicon Graphics Inc., SGI, Movie production, MSFT, Competitions, Motion pictures, Movies, Computer animation, Animation software, Linux/AXP 2.2 (Operating system), Shrek (Motion picture), Dreamworks SKG

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Tantau works at making wireless security sounder - and sexier

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Software from Tantau Software Inc. fixes the Wireless Application Protocol gap, the 'WAP gap,' or the brief gap between the two different encryptions, that of the cellphone and that of the Web server, that takes place during transfer of encrypted information. Despite clients and success, Tantau also has competitors, namely 724 Solutions Inc.

Tantau Software Inc.

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