[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 07:50:31 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    election
    
    Harris' Computers Held Bush Campaign Items
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000064592aug09.story
    
    The Imaginary Firewall
    http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/News/080901/Opinion/The_imaginary_firewal.shtml
    
    Katherine Harris registered to vote in two different counties
    http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/thursday/news_2.html
    
    jargon watch: if all else fails, accuse them of attacking an "easy target"
    (the jargon has an enormous arsenal of special-purpose phrases like this one)
    http://www.news-jrnl.com/2001/Aug/10/POL001.htm
    
    Report Calls for Justice Probe of 2000 Election
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53688-2001Aug9.html
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2001-08-09-election.htm
    http://www.electioncenter.org/
    
    Workshop on Trustworthy Elections, Tomales Bay, California, 26-29 August 2001
    http://www.vote.caltech.edu/wote01/
    
    
    politics
    
    "Read his lips. He lied."
    (but conservatives called him "honest" when he was lying in their interest)
    http://www.nypost.com/commentary/31278.htm
    
    remember when Bush was going to peel off a cohort of moderate Democrats?
    (now it's a Bush "victory" when he keeps his grip on moderate Republicans)
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/082001/crowley082001.html
    
    On a Mission to Unmask Pretenders to Military Glory
    (wasn't there a candidate who spent his National Guard time doing politics?)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/10/national/10FAKE.html
    
    Bush Aide Karl Rove Hid Business Link
    http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-08-09/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-121261.asp
    
    The Rumsfeld Death Watch
    ("the military no longer respects even conservative civilian authority")
    http://slate.msn.com/Code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=8/7/2001&idMessage=8093
    
    the conservative media's endless false claims about the "liberal media"
    (false claims of "bias" let them screen out all inconvenient reality)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h080801_1.shtml
    
    attacking Hillary for trying to regulate interstate traffic in fighting birds
    (very weird)
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/kstrassel/?id=95000940
    
    jargon watch: portraying liberals as violently attacking an abstract symbol
    (it's a mechanical formula, in this case "the legal war against goodness")
    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000064733aug09.story
    
    
    privacy
    
    dot-com privacy fallout: Web tracking info about 88 million users is for sale
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6831796.html
    
    article claiming Finland is thinking of embedding national ID's in cell phones
    http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/yourphoneisyou.jsp
    
    very small computers with sensors and wireless that can be dropped anywhere
    (e.g., to monitor your movements)
    http://www.chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001080201t.htm
    http://www-bsac.EECS.Berkeley.EDU/~pister/SmartDust/
    
    Automated Traffic-Camera System Has Flaws, Motorists and Cities Discover
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134326067_trafficam05m.html
    
    Don't Smile, You're on Surveillance Camera
    (this is about policy more than technology)
    http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf2001089_685.htm
    
    Encryption Cores Ramp for Pervasive Security
    (okay, it's AES, but pervasive embedded crypto hardware would be big progress)
    http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010809S0046
    
    
    security
    
    phenomena suggesting Code Red II back doors are being exploited in abundance
    http://grc.com/x/talk.exe?cmd=article&group=grc.news.feedback&item=23872
    
    Code Red II hits FedEx, AT&T, the Associated Press, and especially Hotmail
    (oh, but I forgot: it's all hype!)
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168837.html
    http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/12679.html
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6826572.html
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-6820012.html
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6829312.html
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/08/09/code.red/
    
    CAIDA Researchers Track New Infestations of "Code Red"
    http://www.npaci.edu/online/v5.16/wormreturns.html
    
    Code Red Virus "Most Expensive in History of Internet"
    (all such cost estimates are suspect, but send Microsoft the bill anyway)
    http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/12668.html
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Big Music's Digital Nightmare
    (I like that: "big music", right up there with "big tobacco")
    http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=729127
    
    NSI Supports Forcing All Domain Disputes to Virginia
    http://www.eff.org/Censorship/SLAPP/Forum_shopping/Heathmount_v_Technodome.com/20010802_eff_nsi_pr.html
    
    ICANN and the Problem of Legitimacy
    http://www.law.wayne.edu/weinberg/legitimacy.PDF
    
    
    everything else
    
    Windows XP: The Case for Unbundling It Now
    http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf2001089_824.htm
    
    Microsoft's legal delaying tactics to get Windows XP into the market
    http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=730280
    
    Baby Bell Breakup Movement Gains Ground
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-6818658.html
    
    broadband news and discussion site
    http://www.dslreports.com/
    
    Warp Drive Underwater
    (the decline of Scientific American is sad, but this article is cool anyway)
    http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501ashley.html
    
    The Internet's New Borders
    http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=730089
    
    another article about the guy who got arrested for installing distributed.net
    http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2001/tc2001088_076.htm
    
    NSF announces funding for the Distributed Terascale Facility
    http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-supercomput.html
    http://www.npaci.edu/teragrid/
    http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2001/nsf0151/nsf0151.pdf
    
    Toward a Unified View of Computer Supported Cooperative Work
    ftp://ftp.cti.dtu.dk/cscw/CSCWpapers/Mind_The_Gap.pdf
    ftp://ftp.cti.dtu.dk/cscw/CSCWpapers/CSCW_intro.pdf
    
    EU-funded research program on "The Disappearing Computer"
    http://www.disappearing-computer.net/
    
    listen to Henry Kissinger rage as justice closes in
    (and study the PR techniques he uses to make and break mental associations)
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010808.atc.02.rmm
    
    "logging allies launch coordinated effort to cripple Rainforest Action Network"
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2520/hoffman2520.html
    
    LA Times Cutting 1,611 Positions
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/30/BU197866.DTL
    
    World of Debating Grows, and Vermont Is Its Lab
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/09/national/09DEBA.html
    
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