[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sat Aug 18 2001 - 10:50:55 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    election
    
    Voting Rights Group Sues Florida Over Election Reform
    (conservatives fight voting rights because they fear democracy)
    http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/08/15/florida/
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17529-2001Aug15.html
    http://www.aclufl.org/electionlaw081501.html
    
    Republicans learn about "Winning Through Election Reform" from Katherine Harris
    http://www.orgop.org/OR2001-WesternLdrshpRegist.pdf
    
    Broward Officials Want Students to Try Hacking Mock Election
    http://ap.tbo.com/ap/florida/MGAJ6W8YGQC.html
    
    
    politics
    
    Congressional Budget Office says the Bush "budget" spends Social Security money
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010816/3548419s.htm
    
    The Neglected Facts
    (this will seem boring at first, but slow down and give it a chance)
    http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/08/13/
    
    an impressively ugly story about the HMO "deal" and the Bush guy behind it
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/082001/lizza082001.html
    
    Bush's Stem Cell Estimates Disputed
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26831-2001Aug17.html
    
    Bush Decided One Month Ago About Stem Cell Compromise
    http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010812/nysu005a.html
    
    Social Security Dismantling Commission to Have Closed Meetings
    http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2001/aug/17/081705780.html
    
    GAO Demands Bush Surrender Cheney Records
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26857-2001Aug17.html
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000066942aug18.story
    
    On Missile Defense: A Pattern of Deception
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/08/12/ED213628.DTL
    http://cgi.cbs.com/video/video.pl?url=cbs/cbs/demand/20000601/martin_cbs_scam_20.rm
    
    felony charges against missile defense "test" protesters
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,537084,00.html
    
    Republicans discover that the military acts like any other interest group
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20010813-6004592.htm
    
    media coverage of Al Gore is absolutely bizarre
    (and they're *still* saying that he claimed to have invented the Internet!)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h081401_1.shtml
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h081101_1.shtml
    
    laugh-out-loud deconstruction of the WSJ's attack on Hillary over cockfighting
    (but it fits the party line: elitist Hillary hates the red states)
    http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2001/cockfight.html
    
    Rush versus Reality
    http://communities.msn.com/RushversusReality&naventryid=111
    
    
    security
    
    SirCam: The Worm That Won't Die
    (Microsoft has convinced people this sort of travesty is just a fact of life)
    http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,46087,00.html
    
    Hacking IIS -- How Sweet It Is
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20960.html
    
    Microsoft systems-engineer training downplays security
    http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-81_STO63028,00.html
    
    Microsoft Retracts XP Virus-Protection Claim
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/08/17/microsoft.security.ap/
    
    PDAs Increasingly Vulnerable to Hackers
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-202-6894699.html
    
    
    Microsoft's many threats to privacy
    (as distinct from its many threats to security)
    
    Privacy Group Attacks Windows XP, Passport
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6886386.html
    http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-08-15-xp-privacy-complaint.htm
    
    Passport 2.0 Ready for a Stamp
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/08/17/passport.2.0.idg/
    
    MS Passport: Straight to the FTC
    http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,46095,00.html
    
    Microsoft, Banks Battle to Control Your E-Info
    http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010813/3540771s.htm
    
    
    everyone else's threats to privacy
    
    MTA Gives Court Toll-Use Data
    http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/225/business/MTA_gives_court_toll_use_data+.shtml
    
    Charlotte Car Tags to Be on Candid Camera
    http://www.wral.com/news/910501/
    
    Green Light for Clever Speed Cameras
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,536549,00.html
    
    DC Plans ID Card for Students
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12001-2001Aug14.html
    
    Web Sites Fail Global Privacy Standards
    http://news.excite.com/news/r/010816/11/net-tech-privacy-dc
    
    Think Tank Urges Face-Scanning of the Masses
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20966.html
    
    Super Bowl Surveillance: Facing Up to Biometrics
    http://www.rand.org/publications/IP/IP209/IP209.pdf
    
    "group seeks recruits to take photos at clinics, post them on the Internet"
    http://www.starnews.com/print/articles/abort17.html
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    (except for all of its many threats to security and privacy)
    
    Microsoft to Change Software After Kodak Complaint
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Microsoft-Kodak.html
    
    Lords of Net Duel -- But Probably Not to the Death
    (temporary URL)
    http://www.usatoday.com/money/bcovthu.htm
    
    How Microsoft Is Using Its Own Legal Defeat to Hurt Java
    http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010816.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    Will Open Source Lose the Battle for the Web?
    http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-08-13-009-20-OP
    
    Open Source Software Development, Newcastle, 25-26 February 2002
    http://www.dirc.org.uk/events/ossdw_ncl.html
    
    Open Cultures and Free Knowledge, Berlin, 11-13 October 2001
    http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/wos2/topics-e.html
    
    Free Online Scholarship Newsletter
    http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
    
    The Internet Can Be Controlled
    http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/sep01/mannall.asp
    
    Open Relay Database (roughly 100,000 hosts that can be used to send spam)
    http://ordb.org/
    
    Digital Camera Scam Takes New Twist
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/613759.asp
    
    Censorship in Action: Why I Don't Publish My HDCP Results
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.61.html#subj1
    http://www.securityfocus.com/news/236
    
    Computers, Freedom and Privacy, San Francisco, 16-19 April 2002
    http://www.cfp2002.org/
    
    UK dot.com Victims to Sue
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,538186,00.html
    
    Enron Goes Overboard
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/17/opinion/17KRUG.html
    
    state-of-the-art movie industry strategy: saturation hype for bad movies
    (pack 'em in on opening weekend so you don't get killed by word-of-mouth)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000065461aug12.story
    
    excerpts from Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber's new book on PR
    http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/01/26/
    http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/01/29/
    http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/01/30/
    http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/01/30/2.html
    
    in a reasonable world, science would decide whether and when biotech is safe
    http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200107/charman.asp
    
    British police trying to prevent showing of a film about deaths in custody
    http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,535583,00.html
    
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