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Crashing Computers
The Internal Revenue Service invested nearly 10 years and more than $3 billion on a computer modernization program that has fizzled.
Magazine
Another Federal Code to Crack
The debate over how--and whether--the overseas sales of devices that can turn computer transmissions into eavesdropper- proof gibberish should be regulated has never been short of complications.
Magazine
Top Secrets
Technology that allows companies to safeguard their customers' messages is crucial to the future of electronic business on the Internet. But U.S. enforcement agencies fear that encoded data sent at high speed from one computer to another are an invitation to terrorists, and they want access to the information.
Magazine
A Tangled Web
Members of Congress are the latest group to surf the Internet. But maybe they missed the wave. Some telecommunications gurus say the Internet was overhyped as an electronic marketplace because consumers won't pay for what they're getting for free.
