Since a substantial worm attack appears to be under way on the Internet, I'll take a moment to send out a small batch of URL's that are not related to the east coast attacks and war fever. No evidence yet links the worm attack to the aircraft attacks. I and others are experiencing sustained bandwidth problems today, but I have no idea if they are related to the worm. (It would have to be quite a worm to cause widespread response problems.) Also, while I'm at it, my own Web site at UCLA is also having problems today, and I apologize for anyone who is trying to get through to any of my Web pages. In any case, the RRE Web archive at <http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/> is working fine. If you have benefitted from RRE's coverage in the last week, I hope you will make a contribution to your country's chapter of Amnesty International: <http://www.amnesty.org/actnow/donate.htm>. If this war goes ahead as announced, it will be a serious human rights issue on many fronts before it is done. security Lethal Worm Spells Double Trouble ("it is extraordinary how much traffic it has created in a couple of hours") http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5097089,00.html Flash Worms: Thirty Seconds to Infect the Internet http://www.silicondefense.com/flash/ The Future of Internet Worms http://www.crimelabs.net/docs/worm.html Can Hacking Victims Be Held Legally Liable? http://www.sidley.com/cyberlaw/features/liability.asp?print=yes Fallacies of a Secure and Private Internet http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/13092.html Security Hole Found in Gauntlet Firewall (very bad) http://www.securityfocus.com/news/248 Information Security Solutions Europe, London, 26-28 September 2001 http://www.eema.org/isse/ politics The DiIulio Resignation in Context http://www.islam-online.net/English/Views/2001/09/article1.shtml The Not Obviously Insane Network (that would be CNN) http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011001&s=alterman Movin' on Up with the Federalist Society http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011001&s=bach everything else faculty position announcement: information and public policy http://www.si.umich.edu/careers/faculty-posting2.htm Surge in Cell Phone Calls Strains 911 System http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7072-2001Sep10.html http://www.nena9-1-1.org/ "European Copyright Directive", basically the European equivalent of the DMCA http://www.eurorights.org/eudmca/CopyrightDirective.html BBC Accused of Cancelling Quiz Show After Contestant "Lost on Purpose" (i.e., in order to share the prize with other contestants -- can't have that) http://www.WhatThePapersSay.co.uk/news.asp?dnid=10560 How the Internet Is Being Changed from Liberation to Authoritarianism http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/PGPR01.html Chinese Editor Imprisoned for E-Mail http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010915/aponline035518_000.htm Gates at Appomattox: Why the US Surrendered http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=special&s=moglen20010909 cut 'n fold paper model of Bill Gates' mansion http://papertoys.com/gates.htm "mental health hotline" that was a cover for Scientologists http://www.sptimes.com/News/091501/Worldandnation/_Mental_health__hotli.shtml end
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