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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17389)	2/11/1998 1:14:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Microsoft makes a pitch to foreign governments seattletimes.com To go with the noire-ish aspects of the preceding story, we got this one. At the conference, called "Empowerment 2001," vendors are showing Microsoft and other software products aimed at helping governments contact and communicate with citizens via the Internet or stand-alone kiosks in libraries, agencies and stores. Software intended to smooth data and communications exchanges among government agencies also was being demonstrated. I'm sure Bill's friends in Beijing can think of plenty of uses for new ways to "contact and communicate" with citizens. All they got to do is pay Bill for his software, and he'll offer them all manner of assistance, I'm sure. Just another instance of Bill's legendary political naivete at work. Cheers, Dan.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17389)	2/14/1998 12:02:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>> Two U.K. scientists recently wrote that a clever amateur armed with $100 in electronics can detect every word on a targeted PC monitor by "listening in" on leaked radiation. They should know. The Cambridge University dons developed the technique while working on a way for Microsoft to covertly monitor illegal software useage.<<< Well, sheesh, they already got the OS and IE in control of your computer, I don't know why they got to mess around with this stuff instead of just having the installed software shoot off an IP packet toward www.microsoft.com every so often. <<< Strange story. First of all, you could do this with a little dish from a van in the street by the 1960s, at the latest. One of the elements of the Tempest military PC standard is a keyboard case and cable that prevents exactly this technique, because it's pretty well known. Same with the monitor signals, network cables, etc. Why this would have to be researched I don't know. Give me three months and a $5000 account at radio shack and I could do it, including PC and a used van. Or get the stuff off the shelf at spys-r-us. These signals are very loud and clear. A hundred bucks, though, is pretty low considering the cost of decent amps and antennas. Maybe they build it from the ground up with transistors, wire, and coat hangers. ;-) Second, is Microsoft monitoring in the US? In other countries? (this is illegal in many places, like most other forms of bugging.) Just their own employees in Redmond playing Quake on company time? Are they really doing it at all? Strange story. Chaz