Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Pick Hit: Generation Beur FM war Remote Afghans Are Slowly Starving http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2002/01/07/bonavash/ Good And Bad Terrorism? http://writ.news.findlaw.com/mariner/20020107.html Our Own Terror Cells (requires paid subscription) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/01/08/army_of_god/print.html The Necessity of Fear (no comment) http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2001-12-28.htm excellent rant about the incompetent FBI and the malevolent Saudis (Hitchens should stick to ranting at people who deserve it) http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020121&s=hitchens stuff that that West got from Islam http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/01/08/alphabet/print.html Still Digging for Lost Sons After a Million Tons of Pain http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/08/nyregion/08GHOS.html civil liberties and security Tribunal Injustice (shortcomings even of the leaked improvements to the tribunal plans) http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020121&s=schwartz Has John Walker's Religious Quest Convinced the Administration to Go Easy? (he's a fool at best, but as far as I can tell they have no proof of a crime) http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20020103.html Saudis Freed From US Jails Claim Maltreatment (but apparently give few details) http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2002/01/08/FFXZULX45WC.html Upgraded Driver's Licenses Are Urged as National ID's http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/08/national/08LICE.html Why Giving Prior Notice of a Privacy Invasion Does Not Mitigate Its Seriousness http://writ.news.findlaw.com/colb/20020102.html Nuclear Threat Initiative http://www.nti.org/ Credit Card Cloners' $1B Scam http://www.nydailynews.com/today/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-137421.asp World Governments Choosing Linux for National Security http://govtech.net/news/news.phtml?docid=2001.12.03-3030000000003951 interesting discussions of outbound filtering by firewalls http://keir.net/firehole.html http://tooleaky.zensoft.com/ Army Intranet: World's Largest (there's no way this could be secure) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48183,00.html http://www.gcn.com/vol20_no21/news/4751-1.html security of a separate GOVNET http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0111.html#5 further discussion of buffer overflow security problems (billions of dollars of damage have been caused by *trivial* design errors) http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.85.html#subj5 claim that hackers release viruses to avoid DMCA liability in reporting bugs (to be taken with a grain of salt, of course, but still ...) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,49483,00.html?tw=wn20020107 politics When Partisan PR Passes for News http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6398-2002Jan6.html trying to make the government pay for double-hulling of oil tankers (of course they promised to double-hull when the Alaska pipline was planned) http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA51DBR5WC.html Robertson Pushes House Bill Allowing Churches To Endorse Political Candidates http://www.au.org/press/pr010702.htm where are the conservative defenders of fiscal prudence now? http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/08/opinion/08KRUG.html Marc Enron's Ten Worst Ideas http://www.missoulanews.com/Archives/News.asp?no=1165 news from Planet Microsoft Microsoft Promotes Linux From Threat to "the" Threat http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22770.html All You Ever Wanted to Know About the DoJ's Windows Cave-In http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22684.html How Microsoft Tax Policy Saves Gates Millions http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23573.html Constructing a Windows-Less Office http://www.crn.com/Sections/CoverStory/CoverStory.asp?ArticleID=31793 intellectual property "Lockware": Hollywood's Intellectual Property Strategy for the Digital Age http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020103_sprigman.html Rick Boucher's letter questioning whether copy-protected CD's are legal http://www.dotcomscoop.com/article.php?sid=80 http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5101267,00.html http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2001/samuels-2001-04.html Oxford University Press Sets Up Giant Research Web Site (by subscription, and shrinks its free reference site) http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,628005,00.html music WDET Hosts' Top Picks for 2001 (public radio in Detroit) http://wdetfm.org/content/special_feature.php#top25 everything else The Anthill Project ("supporting the design, development and analysis of P2P protocols") http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/anthill/ Blinkenlights (if you don't know what "blinkenlights" means then you won't be interested) http://www.blinkenlights.de/ Meet the Innovative Force Behind the New Handspring Treo http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/06/BU190190.DTL Vaporware 2001 Empty Promises http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,49326,00.html more on the rise and fall of Michael Saylor http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11212-2002Jan7?language=printer interesting list of scams doing the rounds in South Australia http://www.ocba.sa.gov.au/scam_scamex.htm Kissinger Had a Hand in "Dirty War" (Insight is far from credible, but the documents should be easy to identify) http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=161506 radio documentary based on surveillance tapes from Archer Daniels Midland http://www.thislife.org/ra/168.ram end
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