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/ end
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