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Reports on the discovery, by researcher teams, of ways smart cards meant to securely store data for electronic identity protection systems, debit cards and mobile phone users are attacked. Reading of subscriber identity module (SIM) cards used in GSM phones through peripheral data; Discovery that card's memory address map can be reverse-engineered.

Reports on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) admission that its electronic mail wiretap system Carnivore hampered an investigation into Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. Destruction of electronic mail by FBI technician.

Summarizes developments regarding the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gases. Ratification by European Union nations on May 31, 2002 and by Japan in June; Position of U.S. president Bush's administration.