eWEEK EDITORS

Civil liberties advocates are gearing up to force a long fight — instead of a quick surrender — over a proposal by the Department of Justice to vastly expand its wiretapping and surveillance capabilities. The proposal puts the Internet and other communications technologies in the crosshairs of the governments new war on terrorism. If Congress […]

Computer makers this week will ship the first consumer PCs featuring Microsoft Corp.s newest operating system, but hopes that Windows XPs arrival would rekindle sagging PC demand apparently have been dashed by recent events. The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and the increasingly dour economic news have all but assured that PC demand […]

In 1991, Microsoft Corp. was a tenth of its current size, with sales just crossing the $1 billion mark and about 5,000 employees. Its key products then were DOS, Windows 3.0, Word and Excel. Its research department was just getting organized as a separate unit. Today, Microsoft Research alone has a core staff of more […]

A week after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the head of Hewlett-Packard Co. returned to the task of trying to persuade nervous investors, skeptical analysts and doubting users of the merits of her companys proposed purchase of Compaq Computer Corp. But the challenges facing Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina—significant as they were […]

Firms Launch Relief Effort In the wake of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Microsoft and Cisco last week led an effort to create an umbrella Web site to connect those organizations with people who want to help. Other key organizers of the American Liberty Partnership, at www.libertyunites.org, include Yahoo, eBay, AOL Time […]

Surrender even a sliver of civil liberties, and youve given the terrorists exactly what they want: a paranoid, unpleasant America. That is the pivot of the argument civil libertarians are now making as they steel themselves for inevitable battles on Capitol Hill about how to fight terrorism. I dont know whether to embrace their argument […]

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have woken us up to the fact that we are at war. It is a war of freedom vs. totalitarianism and terror. In that way it is similar to previous wars we have fought, but that is perhaps the only similarity. In a war, […]

VeriSign likes to refer to each of its two main data centers as “the Fort Knox of the Internet” because of their tight security and restricted access. But if it was said with a smile before, the analogy became morbidly serious after Sept. 11. In the days following the worst terrorist attacks ever against the […]

Systems management startup Aduva is trying to reduce the cost of managing free software. As an open source operating system, Linux is available as a free download or through low-cost shrink-wrapped packages. But once the Linux cat is out of the bag, its numerous constituent components can make it difficult to herd, many users agree. […]

The first and perhaps most important step in constructing a network security strategy is understanding precisely what must be defended, and what it must be defended against. Every enterprise is different in this regard; one companys survival may rely entirely on keeping certain information secret, while another may be indifferent to data security so long […]