[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2002 - 22:02:15 PST


Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.

RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html


war

The Division of Afghanistan Begins
http://www.stratfor.com/fib/topStory_view.php?ID=203298

US Fails to Find Evidence at Camp X-Ray
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,658785,00.html
http://commondreams.org/headlines02/0227-02.htm

Propaganda, the Pentagon and the Rendon Group
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5188

Mistakes Were Made
(the controversy about Afghanistan disinformation)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7979-2002Feb26.html


civil liberties and security

Zimbabwe: Assassination Plot, or PR Frameup?
(you want the "11-17 Feb. 2002" issue)
http://mmpz.icon.co.zw/weekly.html
http://www.prwatch.org/cgi/spin.cgi?date=February%202002#1014787642

Paying for Big Brother: Surveillance Funding in the DOJ Budget
http://www.epic.org/reports/paying_for_bb.pdf
http://appropriations.senate.gov/releases/record.cfm?id=181386
http://www.usdoj.gov/02organizations/02_3.html

jargon watch: listen to the first quote from the "security consultant"
(it includes the classic method for breaking an association using a straw man)
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020226.me.06.ram

Critics Say New Rule Limits Access to Records
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/27/politics/27INFO.html

Big Brother in the Library
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20020225-88465531.htm

At Hearing, British Fingerprint Expert Calls FBI's Proficiency Test a "Joke"
(interesting how this all comes out *now*, when DNA identification is here)
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/2754410.htm
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/2754063.htm
http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/02D0046P.HTM

Watchdogs Rap eBay Policy Changes
(eBay is a monopoly, as predicted here, and they're acting like it)
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-845911.html

New York Times Internal Network Hacked
http://online.securityfocus.com/news/340
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2752998.htm

Microsoft Encryption in Company Networks Foiled
(more trustworthy every day)
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/data/anw-26.02.02-007/

Buffer Overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-04.html
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/0226iepatch.html

missing bounds checks! buffer overflows!
(technical illiteracy hurts everyone)
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/server_security_article-4515.html


scandal

Judge Orders Release of Energy Task Force Records
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13092-2002Feb27.html

compare today's bio of Army Secretary White ...
(in which Enron is a footnote)
http://www.army.mil/leaders/Secarmy/bio.htm

... to the "Aug 10, 2001" version that you can find here
(in which it's not)
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.army.mil/leaders/Secarmy/bio.htm


research

Social Informatics in the Information Sciences
http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol3/v3n2p89-96r.pdf

interview with Larry Smarr
http://www.techreview.com/articles/qa0302.asp
http://www.calit2.net/

Exploring a New Interaction Paradigm for Collaborating on Handheld Computers
http://guir.berkeley.edu/projects/geney/GeneyTechReport.pdf

"Smart Environment" Research
(survey of projects)
http://www.equator.ac.uk/projects/domus/documents/Smart_Environments_booklet.pdf

People, Places, Things: Web Presence for the Real World
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2001/HPL-2001-279.pdf

online proceedings of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Ubiquitous Computing
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/vs/events/dag2001/

online proceedings of the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning conference
http://newmedia.colorado.edu/cscl/

Association of Internet Researchers, Maastricht, 13-16 October 2002
http://aoir.org/2002/

New Developments in Digital Libraries, Ciudad Real, Spain, 2-3 April 2002
http://www.iceis.org/workshops/nddl/nddl-cfp.htm


everything else

MPAA's Valenti Pushes for Copy-Control PCs
(if you think this is extreme, you may not know enough about copy-control PC's)
http://www.theregus.com/content/6/24151.html

Microsoft Guru: Stamp Out HTTP
(does anyone have URL's on criticism of and candidate replacements for HTTP?)
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-845220.html

The Musician's Web Center
(includes lots of music shareware downloads)
http://www.hitsquad.com/

Exporting Harm: Techno Trash to Asia
http://www.svtc.org/cleancc/pubs/technotrash.htm

Bush shutting down "digital divide" programs
http://www.msnbc.com/news/716834.asp

The Beijing-Washington Back-Channel and Henry Kissinger's Secret Trip to China
http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB66/

Legacy Tobacco Documents Archive
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/

Spin of the Day
(full of good stuff)
http://www.prwatch.org/cgi/spin.cgi

WA bill asserting that the Declaration of Independence endorses creationism
http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2001-02/Senate/6500-6524/6500_01182002.txt
http://www.leg.wa.gov/wsladm/billinfo/dspBillSummary.cfm?billnumber=6500

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