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APRIL 05, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Here's a comforting bedtime story: Offshoring won't just save companies money. It will also create jobs. And reduce inflation. And grow the economy. Those are the top-line conclusions of a new report from the Information Technology Association of America, the IT vendors' lobbying group. Just don't read very far past that top line -- at least, not if you want to get any sleep tonight. See, the report says those new jobs won't be IT jobs. And that reduced inflation will come in part from lower pay -- "wage compression," as it's charmingly dubbed by...

Journalist perpetrates online terror hoax By DAN VERTON ComputerWorld, FEBRUARY 06, 2003 Editor's note: An online story yesterday by Computerworld reporting on terrorist claims of responsibility for having authored the Slammer worm was based on a hoax. The security reporter who wrote the story, Dan Verton, explains in this first-person account how he and others were misled by a U.S. journalist who pretended to be someone named "Abu Mujahid." The original story has been removed from Computerworld's Web site. There's an old Italian proverb that says, "Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas." That's the situation in which...