Rapid Fire 7/6/05

6 Jul 2005

* Bomb-stopping jello* Chilling at China's Los Alamos* Inside the Army's cybercrime unit* Moscow's stolen data markets* Terror database online

(Big ups: RC, Schneier, Sploid)

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