[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sat Sep 22 2001 - 22:50:35 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's on topics unrelated to the attacks and war.
    Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    
    Microsoft worms
    (oh yeah, large parts of the Internet got destroyed last week)
    
    Nimda Microsoft Worm Still Spreading in Asia
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7238100.html
    
    New Studies Reveal Nimda's Tenacity
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7250546.html
    
    major online political site is hammered by the Nimda Microsoft worm
    http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=10472
    
    Nimda Virus Cripples Bank, Hospitals, MPs
    http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/21/biztech/biztech6.html
    
    Nimda Microsoft Worm Slows, but Infects a Microsoft Site
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/630583.asp
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-202-7231660.html
    
    Nimda Winds Down; Companies Recover
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7239193.html
    
    Gartner recommends businesses move away from Microsoft IIS
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-7239473-0.html?tag=nbs
    
    "some broadband access providers have cut service to customers with worms"
    (this is ludicrous)
    http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,47037,00.html
    
    statistics suggesting that worm propagation causes Internet routing instability
    http://www.renesys.com/projects/bgp_instability/
    
    A "Tarpit" That Traps Worms
    http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,46964,00.html
    
    technical information and initial press reports on the new Microsoft worm
    http://www.incidents.org/react/nimda.php
    http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.aat_private
    http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/nimda.shtml
    http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/09/18/010918hnworm.xml?0918alert
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/18/151203&mode=threadred.com/
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7215349.html?tag=lh
    http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,46944,00.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-worm.html
    http://kgate.virtual.net/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?action=Browse&id=NIMDAWorm
    
    
    other news from planet Microsoft
    
    Microsoft FrontPage Restricts Free Speech
    ("you may not use the Software with any site that disparages Microsoft")
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/21/1438251&mode=thread
    http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/09/17/010917opfoster.xml
    
    Microsoft Opens Up Passport Service
    (this is typical Microsoft strategizing: Passport is still very dangerous)
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7231441.html
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/631517.asp
    http://www.internetweek.com/story/INW20010920S0008
    http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2813501,00.html
    
    Why Microsoft's Open HailStorm Promises Flatter to Deceive
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21792.html
    
    Microsoft propaganda about Passport
    http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/sep01/09-20PassportFederationPR.asp
    http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/sep01/09-20passport.asp
    
    Operating System Directions for the Next Millennium
    http://research.microsoft.com/research/sn/Millennium/mgoals.html
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    The Future of Democracy in ICANN
    http://www.internetdemocracyproject.org/newslt11.htm
    
    Bill Could Force Copy Control on IT Companies
    http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010919S0008
    
    Senator Fritz Hollings (D-Disney) Avoids Talking About SSSCA
    http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/20/2047211
    
    
    everything else
    
    Privacy and Security in the Digital Age, New York, 13-14 November 2001
    http://www.cmius.com/privacyad.htm
    
    Automotive Freedom and Privacy Issues
    http://freedom.house.gov/auto/
    
    DARPA's Disruptive Technologies
    http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/oct01/talbotall.asp
    
    Malicious Email Filter Project
    http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ids/mef/
    
    New Software Takes Aim at Messy Data
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-7227639.html
    
    Chapel Hill Seeks Best Role for Students' Laptops
    ("requirement yields savings, but educational gains are hard to measure")
    http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i04/04a03101.htm
    
    In Parking Garages, Putting an End to the Space Race
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/13/technology/circuits/13HOWW.html
    
    Voting Devices to Be Updated
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000075146sep19.story
    
    tenure-track jobs in new media and political economy of communication
    http://communication.ucsd.edu/intro/temppositions.html
    
    "parents of ill children are rewriting the rules of the medical industry"
    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.09/disease.html
    
    Science Photo Library  
    http://www.sciencephoto.com/
    
    ITPapers White Paper Search  
    http://itpapers.com/
    
    Art Deadlines List  
    http://artdeadlineslist.com/
    
    Proposed Ban on Secret Settlements in California Fails  (bummer)
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ69G3ASRC
    
    Design Architecture
    http://www.designarchitecture.com/
    
    a grade school that conducts structured goal-setting exercises
    (this is good: the next step is to work back rationally from goals to actions)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000075150sep19.story
    
    Who's Scoring Those High-Stakes Tests? Poorly Trained Temps
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0918/p19s1-lekt.html
    
    Media Industry Efforts to Eliminate and Weaken the Ownership Rules
    http://www.democraticmedia.org/
    
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