Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war planning for war on Iraq (the fact that we're even having this conversation is too weird for me) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/sunopinion/la-000031814may05.story Jenin War Crimes Investigation Needed http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/05/jenin0503.htm Demand Dick Armey Retract Call for Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians (he says insane things without consequence) http://www.adc.org/action/2002/02May2002.htm Stop Blaming Europe http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42401-2002May6.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18441-2002May1.html Iran News http://payvand.com/news/ US Offensive in Latin America: Coups, Retreats, and Radicalization http://www.monthlyreview.org/0502petras.htm Guerrillas, Drugs and Human Rights in US-Colombia Policy, 1988-2002 http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB69 Army Confirms Making Anthrax in Recent Years http://www.sunspot.net/news/health/bal-te.anthrax13dec13.story Anthrax Sent Through Mail Gained Potency by the Letter http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/national/07ANTH.html World Trade Center Building Performance Study http://www.house.gov/science/hot/wtc/wtcreport.htm civil liberties and security Free Burma Coalition http://www.freeburmacoalition.org/frames/home.htm In Michigan, Anti-Terrorism Effort Goes Public http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37210-2002May5?language=printer latest national ID card and driver's license politics http://www.msnbc.com/news/747901.asp http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/story/0,10801,70721,00.html http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=02052002-072009-4333r http://www.idg.net/ic_855521_1794_9-10000.html Federated Identity Management by Dan Geer http://www.simc-inc.org/archive0002/February02/Speakers/geer-keynote.htm UK Plan to Make Identity Theft a Criminal Offense http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,710798,00.html public-interest groups' comments on financial information-sharing practices http://www.epic.org/privacy/financial/glb_comments.pdf SonicBlue Ordered to Track ReplayTV Users' Viewing Choices http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3186191.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/3194142.htm First-Ever VeriChip "Chipping" Procedure on May 10th (I demand a boycott on the word "chipping") http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020502/22172_1.html police access to personal identification of Canadian air travelers http://www.privcom.gc.ca/media/nr-c/02_05_b_020501_e.asp Facial Recognition Vendor Test 2002 http://www.frvt.org/FRVT2002/default.htm California DMV -- click on "Vehicle Smog Check History" (entering the license plate of any car gets you its VIN and smog history) http://www.smogcheck.ca.gov/ Knives, Tanks, Whales: Airport Screeners Now Failing to Catch Anything http://www.satirewire.com/news/march02/screeners.shtml Chinese Hacker Group http://www.counterpane.com/alert-ceu.html CERT's Top Six Attack Trends http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/attack_trends.pdf security problems threatening Web services http://news.com.com/2009-1017-893230.html the bottomless corruption of Enron Enron Forced Up California Energy Prices, Documents Show (are any of these documents online?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/business/07ENRO.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42867-2002May6?language=printer Enron Pipeline Leaves Scar on South America http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37365-2002May5?language=printer preview of the Enron trial http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZOWHRIS0D politics "the budget is worse than even the most dour pessimists had thought possible" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/03/opinion/03KRUG.html http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/05/06/economy/ The NRA's Moral Equivalence http://slate.msn.com/default.aspx?id=2065227 "this continuum of Republican attack politics from Watergate to W" http://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/050602a.html article on Bush and the Christian right http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/9/easton-n.html intellectual property Why Entertainment Companies Want to Hack Your Computer (hack it? they want to outlaw it) http://www.reason.com/0205/fe.mg.hollywood.shtml it seems people who don't watch the commercials on TV are committing "theft" http://www.inside.com/product/product.asp?entity=CableWorld&pf_ID=7A2ACA71-FAAD-41FC-A100-0B8A11C30373 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/3200101.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp Drug Companies Maintain "Astounding" Profits http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7345/1054/b Microsoft in Peruvian Open-Source Nightmare http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25157.html everything else court finally allows an ISP to cut off a spammer (now I can think of some whole countries that should get cut off) http://litigation.paetec.net/ a new low point in the long-running debacle that is digital television (actually, at least three of them) http://www.tvinsite.com/multichannelnews/index.asp?layout=story_stocks&articleid=CA214798 http://mccain.senate.gov/dtvfloor02.htm http://www.democraticmedia.org/news/washingtonwatch/drmUpdate.html Collection of Software Bugs (i.e., bugs that caused death and destruction) http://wwwzenger.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/persons/huckle/bugse.html Theatre und Internet (course syllabus in German with excerpts from some readings in English) http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem1.htm http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem2.htm http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/perfa.htm http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/perfb.htm Media in Transition 2, MIT, 10-12 May 2002 http://cms.mit.edu/conf/mit2/ electronic proceedings for a peer-to-peer workshop back in March http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/ Wireless Linux Router Brings in Subscribers for Ghana's Largest ISP http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=23733 Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries http://www.ejisdc.org/ IT, Communications & Development, Katmandu, 1-3 December 2002 http://www.itcd.net/ Jellyfish "Blooms" Could Be Sign of Ailing Seas (you haven't lived till you've found yourself swimming amid stinging jellyfish) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37617-2002May5?language=printer Ever Precise, Scientists Describe New Form of Life as "Weird Bug" (does anyone have public URL's for scientific reports on these things?) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000032145may06.story end
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