Sunday, June 18, 2000

6/18/2000 10:47:45 PM

• Infecting yourself. London's Times newspaper describes this ironic bungle: After Serbs launched virus attacks against NATO during the Kosovo conflict, NATO personnel with the KFOR peacekeeping force in Pristina were experimenting with anti-virus tactics. They created a virus called Anti-Smyser 1 which, unfortunately, escaped from the laboratory. The virus grabs documents from the disks of infected computers and sends them out as invisible email attachments. Anti-Smyser 1 has now turned up at the Czech ministry of defense. And this same cheeky virus is now believed responsible for sending a restricted document, detailing NATO rules of engagement, to a London publishing company last April.

6/18/2000 10:12:19 PM

• What would you like to do? Did you ever wish that, just once, you could answer The Paperclip's rhetorical question in all seriousness? Here is what I'd say.