[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 22:11:23 PST

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    Here are some more URL's, including both war-related topics and
    others.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
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    war
    
    Ground War Strategies, Part 2: The Northern Alliance Offensive
    http://www.stratfor.com/home/0111072355.htm
    
    Support Deepens for the Taliban, Refugees Report
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58791-2001Nov7.html
    
    Bin Laden's PR Blunder
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1648000/1648027.stm
    
    survey of world opinion with links
    http://prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/11/rayman-read-a-11-08.html
    
    A War We Cannot Win by John Le Carre
    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011119&s=lecarre
    
    Bombing of Afghanistan is Illegal and Must Be Stopped
    http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumnew36.htm
    
    "the terrorism properly is categorized as a criminal act, not an act of war"
    http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/terrorismdrumbl.htm
    
    Militarization in the Age of Globalization
    http://www.fpif.org/commentary/0111mic.html
    
    "a huge shift of intelligence power away from the Pentagon to the CIA"
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,590478,00.html
    
    read Bill Clinton's speech about the war
    http://www.truthout.com/11.10A.Clinton.htm
    http://www.georgetown.edu/admin/publicaffairs/protocol_events/events/clinton_glf110701.htm
    
    now see the Washington Times twist it
    (while making room for one personal slight against him for every 140 words)
    http://www.washtimes.com/national/20011108-470100.htm
    
    and watch the Washington Times' distortions ripple through a braindead press
    (even Andrew Sullivan, having mindlessly propagated them, is mortified)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h110901_1.shtml
    
    Uncle Sam Wants Napster!
    (very odd)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/washtech/techthursday/columns/dotcom/A59099-2001Nov7.html
    
    Sources: Middle Eastern Terrorists Have South American Link
    (no surprise: the same area housed the Nazis who ran our friends' regimes)
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/11/07/inv.terror.south/
    
    Manufacturing Dissent: Chomsky Dissembles on Afghan Hunger
    (it's not just Rush Limbaugh who falsely declares the media to be silent)
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001_11_04_archive.html#6884599
    
    a frightening trend: wholesale fabrications that find their way into print
    (by now a whole generation has grown up surrounded by aggressive irrationality)
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h110701_1.shtml
    
    
    politics
    
    interesting nationwide table of this week's election outcomes
    http://www.truthout.com/11.08B.2001DG.htm
    
    the lesson of Virginia and New Jersey: Americans are repudiating hate
    (a political empire is built on that hate, and it's scared right now)
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/online/sullivan110701.html
    
    half the country still realizes that Bush was not elected
    http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york110701.shtml
    
    Revitalizing Our Nation's Election System
    http://www.truthout.com/4.Election.Report.pdf
    
    Republicans Behaving Badly
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2058495
    
    campaign against war profiteering
    http://www.ourfuture.org/
    
    Enron Admits to Overstating Profits by About $600 Million
    (the Bush administration is full of Enron executives and fakes its numbers too)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/09/business/09POWE.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/09/business/09NORR.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/10/business/10POWE.html
    
    Official Blames Defeat on Flier That Wrongly Linked Her to Afghanistan
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000089364nov08.story
    
    
    investigation
    
    US Agents Were Told: Back Off Bin Ladens
    ("soon after George Bush became president")
    http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/08/world/world4.html
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4293682,00.html
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/newsnight/newsid_1645000/1645527.stm
    
    Lessons from the Al Qaeda Cult Handbook
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11895
    
    
    aviation security
    
    Why DeLay, Armey and Bush are Dead Wrong on Airline Security: Part 1
    (with many links)
    http://www.buzzflash.com/BuzzScripts/Buzz.dll/sub3
    
    legislators know from personal experience what a joke airport security is
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000089684nov09.story
    
    The Leader in Airport Security, and in Lapses
    (meet the company that House Republicans are going to the wall to defend)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/09/business/09SECU.html?pagewanted=print
    
    local radio station's report on security at the Denver Airport
    http://www.850koa.com/news/news_DIA.html
    
    
    privacy and civil liberties
    
    DOJ Field Guidance on New Authorities Enacted in the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act
    http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/DOJ_guidance.pdf
    
    proposal for expanded law enforcement access to Social Security files
    http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1152/11-8-2001/20011108004148700.html
    
    Congress Probes Death Data Security
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011107/pl/selling_dead_numbers_2.html
    
    FTC Chief Grilled on Privacy at First Congressional Hearing
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171954.html
    
    Ashcroft Proposes to Eavesdrop on Attorney-Client Conversations
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011108/pl/attacks_monitoring_2.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64663-2001Nov8.html
    
    Council of Europe Adopts First Cybercrime Treaty
    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2823645,00.html
    
    Europe Reruns Through Spy Bill
    http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48224,00.html
    
    Irish cell phones are being used as tracking devices
    http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,48251,00.html
    
    Interrogating a Suspected Terrorist
    http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/terrorismparry.htm
    
    Screening, Travel IDs Sought for Air Safety
    (i.e., massive, detailed, centralized dossiers on most of the population)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000089663nov09.story
    
    Fed Cybersecurity Chief: ID Plan Unpopular
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7816442.html
    
    Go Slow on National Identification Cards
    http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumnew37.htm
    
    Online Index Documents Post-Sept. 11th Censorship, Free Speech Incidents
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171976.html
    http://www.ncac.org/issues/freeex911.html
    
    Maher Expects to Be Axed
    (this would be a very dangerous precedent)
    http://www.pagesix.com/celebritynews/4948.htm
    
    
    freedom of information
    
    Eclipsing the Sunshine of E-Government
    http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=661
    
    Bush Tries to Close the Vault of History
    (listen as his people lie to cover up his father's crimes)
    http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=5069
    
    The Problems With Bush's Executive Order Burying Presidential Records
    (John Dean has become a remarkably valuable commentator)
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20011109.html
    
    Bush Urged to Rescind Order on Presidential Materials
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51774-2001Nov6.html
    
    Bush Attempts to Have His State Papers Declared Federal Property
    http://www.auschron.com/issues/dispatch/2001-09-28/pols_feature2.html
    
    Amid War, GAO Puts Legal Fight With Cheney on Hold
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64520-2001Nov8.html
    
    
    news from Planet Microsoft
    
    How Tenacity Kept Monopoly Intact
    (details of the "government" capitulation to Microsoft)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/655131.asp
    
    Microsoft Deal Fans Flames of Revolt
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1276-210-7815103-1.html
    
    some probably over-the-top speculation on the deal
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/dgillmor/dg110701.htm
    http://davenet.userland.com/2001/11/06/youreFreeToThink
    
    Official: Microsoft Is a Monopoly in Israel
    http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=92883
    
    How .NET Assures the Continuation of Monopoly
    http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20011108.html
    
    Microsoft's dangerous attempt to suppress free exchange of security information
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7823586.html
    
    this is Microsoft's manifesto for the suppression of security information
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/columns/security/noarch.asp
    
    some peculiar ranting from Microsoft's security spinner
    (long-time readers will recall detailed analysis of his rhetoric)
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1014-201-7819204-0.html
    
    Microsoft IIS is significantly more vulnerable than other Web servers
    (in a test, it became infected before it even finished downloading)
    http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D708%2526a%253D17362,00.asp
    
    IE Security Hole Leads to Cookie Jar
    ("writing a tiny bit of JavaScript to hijack information in a cookie")
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7828689.html
    
    Cookie Data in IE Can Be Exposed or Altered Through Script Injection
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-055.asp
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172017.html
    
    worm that spreads on Outlook or Outlook express if you simply preview it
    http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.dat_private
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    Web Mega-Archive Raises Legal Questions
    (actually these questions have been around for a long time)
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991534
    
    MIT Puts Course Material on Web
    http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article.aspx?ref=123710
    
    interesting article on the intellectual-property politics of Cipro pricing
    http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2001/000092.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    In US Court, Yahoo Beats French Order Over Nazi Memorabilia
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ5IEWWRTC
    http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/yahoo/yahoolaligue110701.pdf
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011107/tc/yahoo_nazi_auctions_1.html
    
    An Introduction to EVINCE: Using Ethnography to Evaluate IT-Related Change
    http://www.rdg.ac.uk/EVINCE/
    
    Ken Goldberg's Hotlist in Art Forum
    (you might remember his book on telerobotics, excerpted here)
    http://www.artforum.com/index.php?pn=inprint&id=1792
    
    Quest for Future-Car Standards
    http://wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,48252,00.html
    
    Security Hole in Cash Machines
    (good example of how insanely subtle cryptographic security can be)
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1645000/1645552.stm
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22751.html
    
    "online auctions may not be the perfect pricing mechanism after all"
    http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=852466
    
    The Race for a New Internet
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,589431,00.html
    
    Reports from the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee
    http://www.itrd.gov/pubs/pitac/
    
    US Online Population Holds Steady
    (remember when it was going to grow exponentially forever?)
    http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,,5911_919221,00.html
    
    Does "Digital Divide" Rhetoric Do More Harm Than Good?
    (I just don't think that "digital divide" is a useful concept)
    http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i11/11a05101.htm
    
    Computers Have Had Little Impact in College Classrooms, Stanford Prof. Argues
    http://chronicle.com/free/2001/11/2001110802t.htm
    
    Footprints and Milestones: Population and Environmental Change
    http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm
    
    Berkeley Potters' Guild Holiday Sale
    http://www.berkeleypotters.com/saleseventsn4.html
    
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