--- description: EYE SPY These days, employees who forget passwords or misplace ID badges are more than an annoyance--they're a security risk. Panasonic thinks it has a solution: the Authenticam ($240), an... title: In Brief: Nov. 12, 2001 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # In Brief: Nov. 12, 2001 by [Jyoti Thottam](/author/jyoti-thottam/) Nov 12, 2001 5:00 AM CUT by [Jyoti Thottam](/author/jyoti-thottam/) Nov 12, 2001 5:00 AM CUT EYE SPY These days, employees who forget passwords or misplace ID badges are more than an annoyance–they’re a security risk. Panasonic thinks it has a solution: the Authenticam ($240), an iris-scanning security camera that hooks up to a PC. Since it runs off the computer’s horsepower, it’s cheaper than door-mounted devices. You can even use it at home; it doubles as a webcam. FORGET ME NOT Where do old Web pages go to die? If they’re lucky, the Internet Archive, a nonprofit project to preserve the history of the Web. The archive recently marked its fifth birthday by launching the Wayback Machine [web.archive.org)](https://web.archive.org%29 "undefined") Type any URL into this free service, and you can see what the page looked like in the old days (1996). The archive has already devoted a special collection to the Sept. 11 attacks. MONKEY BUSINESS Meet Aiai, Sega’s newest superhero. Beneath that sickly sweet exterior beats the heart of a dangerously addictive video game. Aiai is the star of Super Monkey Ball ($50), Sega’s first title for the Nintendo Gamecube. The game, which hits stores this week, sends Aiai and his pals through an endlessly shifting universe of tilting floors and floating bananas. Pikachu: watch your back! –By Jyoti Thottam In Brief: Nov. 12, 2001 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6665218/in-brief-nov-12-2001/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6665218/in-brief-nov-12-2001/"},"headline":"In Brief: Nov. 12, 2001","datePublished":"2001-11-12T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-27T07:05:05.384Z","description":"EYE SPY These days, employees who forget passwords or misplace ID badges are more than an annoyance--they're a security risk. Panasonic thinks it has a solution: the Authenticam ($240), an...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6665218/in-brief-nov-12-2001/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jyoti Thottam","url":"https://time.com/author/jyoti-thottam/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6665218/in-brief-nov-12-2001/","name":"In Brief: Nov. 12, 2001"}}]}] ```