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The following story was based on an article in the Register, which has now been revised by its author. It seems that the claims made for D.I.R.T. in the Powerpoint presentation discussed below are not accurate, in the sense that the program is not as powerful as thought. Specifically, it cannot actually defeat all firewalls. Unfortunately, what it can and cannot defeat seems to be unclear.

The program would still presumably allow the placement of files on a computer where it was resident.

The new article suggests that it should be somewhat easier to detect D.I.R.T. on a PC than was implied in the last one. To read the new article click here.

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Bacteria that are immune to antibiotics are in your grocery store and kitchen right now, meaning that you are at risk for a unique form of food poisoning.

The microbes can cause illness and even death. But there?s also the danger that when the microbes mix with other bacteria in your kitchen or inside your intestines, they could share their resistance to drugs with more benign bacteria, causing them to become immune to treatment, as well.
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Doctors in the U.K. have observed the exact moment when a new strain of drug resistant bacteria evolved in a patient. These ?superbugs? are new bacteria that cannot be treated with existing antibiotics. Relatively harmless bacteria are capable of turning into superbugs when they acquire new genetic material from other bacteria that have become resistant to various antibiotics, usually from overexposure to the drugs.

Until now, no one had been able to pinpoint exactly how a regular bug turned into a superbug. This changed when a baby who had been hospitalized from birth because of breathing problems picked up a respiratory tract infection. It was identified as a normal, non-resistant Staphylococcus bacteria and the usual antibiotics were given.
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On April 23, 2001, a gigantic flash of light was recorded by US satellites hundreds of miles above the Pacific Ocean southewest of Los Angeles. The Air Force’s Technical Applications Center issued a press release on May 25 stating that the flash was not nuclear. This is believed to have been the third largest explosion recorded in the upper atmosphere since global satellite observations started 25 years ago.

The blast was about the size of the Hiroshima bomb and sensors detected the sound as far away as Los Alamos.

US satellites regularly detect the explosion of meteors entering the earth’s atmosphere.

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