17.14.1. firewalls, virtual perimeters, swIPe-type encrypted tunnels, an end to break-ins, 17.14.2. "What kind of encryption will be used with ATM?" - (ATM = Asynchronous Transfer Mode, not Automated Teller Machine) - some reports that NSA is developing standards for ATM 17.14.3. Shapes of things to come, maybe....(laws of other countries) + India has a fee schedule for BBS operators, e.g., they have to pay $50,000 a year to operate a bulletin board! (This sounds like the urban legend about the FCC planning a modem tax, but maybe it's true.) - "The Forum for Rights to Electronic Expression (FREE) has been formed in India as a body dedicated to extending fundamental rights to the electronic domain....FREE owes its creation to an attack on Indian datacom by the Indian government, in the form of exorbitant licence fees (a minimum Rs. 1.5 million = US$50,000 each year for a BBS, much higher for e-mail)." [amehta@doe.ernet.in (Dr. Arun Mehta), forwarded by Phil Agre, comp.org.cpsr.talk, 1994- 08-31] - for more info: ftp.eff.org /pub/EFF/Policy/World/India/FREE 17.14.4. Cyberspace will need better protection - to ensure spoofing and counterfeiting is reduced (recall Habitat's problems with people figuring out the loopholes)
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