Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war Iraq war plans http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq8aug08.story http://www.aviationNow.com/avnow/news/channel_military.jsp?view=story&id=news/aw080524.xml http://www.aviationNow.com/avnow/news/channel_military.jsp?view=story&id=news/aw080522.xml http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/al-udeid-imagery2.htm Rush Limbaugh: Blast Iraq on 9-11 (he attacks NYC's memorial plans -- what a guy) http://wnd.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28545 the Pentagon briefing that asserted that Saudi Arabia is our enemy http://slate.msn.com/?id=2069119 more on the media anthrax suspect http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.hatfill08aug08.story http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=515&u=/ap/20020808/ap_on_re_af/anthrax_hatfill_1&printer=1 http://makeashorterlink.com/?M67742771 F-22 Avionics Require Inflight Reboot http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/22/0615221.shtml?tid=126 War Exercise Adds a Digital Front http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-battle9aug09.story Radio Sawa: Objective News or Propaganda? (you may have to go in through the arabnews.com home page to get this) http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=17609 entertaining 9/11 conspiracy site http://www.geocities.com/killtown/bush civil liberties and security Truck Drivers Are Deputized to Watch Pennsylvania Roads http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/3830417.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp Concerns Raised on How US Treats Enemy Combatants (does anyone have a URL for this report?) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=578&u=/nm/20020809/ts_nm/attack_combatants_dc_1&printer=1 Total Information Awareness System ("Program Manager: Dr. John Poindexter") http://www.darpa.mil/iao/TIASystems.htm Calculating Human Rights ("State Dept urges a judge to consider political and economic implications") http://www.feer.com/articles/2002/0208_15/p018region.html Yahoo! Risks Abusing Rights in China http://hrw.org/press/2002/08/yahoo-ltr073002.htm more on the Japanese ID system (in no particular order) http://www.itworld.com/Man/2688/020806japanid/pfindex.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-briefs8.5aug08.story http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020806a2.htm http://www.asahi.com/english/politics/K2002080600399.html http://www.asahi.com/english/politics/K2002080300210.html http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020806wo03.htm http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26559.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2173003.stm http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=2&cid=581&u=/nm/20020805/tc_nm/japan_identification_dc_3 http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200208/03/20020803p2a00m0dm021000c.html http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200207/28/20020728p2a00m0dm025001c.html http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200207/22/20020722p2a00m0fp025000c.html http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200202/24/20020224p2a00m0dm011001c.html censorship of student newspapers http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52716-2002Aug6?language=printer http://www.splc.org/ California Drivers Worry New Monitoring System Threatens Privacy http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3825855.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp Cameras to Help Keep South Los Angeles Alleys Clean (what's new is not cameras as such but motion sensors and recorded warnings) http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/3804673p-4830091c.html Microsoft Settles FTC Charges Alleging False Security and Privacy Promises http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2002/08/microsoft.htm http://www.ftc.gov/os/2002/08/microsoftcmp.pdf Nielsen Begins Monitoring TiVo Usage http://news.com.com/2100-1040-948580.html States Move to Halt Fraud in Licensing of Drivers (does anyone have URL's for security and privacy analysis of this?) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A57205-2002Aug7?language=printer OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks http://www.oecd.org/EN/document/0,,EN-document-0-nodirectorate-no-12-33186-0,00.html column mocking the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26553.html ... but much coverage seems unaware of how easy a massive DOS attack would be (it's been done: use a worm to infect 10,000 machines with attack bots) http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/08/06/0806dos.html comprehensive analysis of the Klez Microsoft worm (which could easily have been written to pretty much shut down the Internet) http://toronto.virusbtn.com/magazine/archives/200207/klez.xml depressing test results on intrusion detection systems (but some are questioning whether the tested systems were fully enabled) http://www.nwfusion.com/techinsider/2002/0624security1.html Web Building Security Issues http://webbuilder.netscape.com/webbuilding/0-7532.html Exploiting Design Flaws in the Win32 API for Privilege Escalation http://security.tombom.co.uk/shatter.html "almost all of the world's info is on hard drives with one-year warranties" http://www.shift.com/print/web/385/1.html companies planning in case WorldCom's part of the Internet goes down http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/782984.asp corruption Bush's Fancy Financial Footwork http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48301-2002Aug6? Bush: "you know what it means to be let down by shady corporate practices" (he actually said this) http://www.msnbc.com/news/791117.asp Halliburton Subsidiary Overcame Fraud Investigation to Land Military Contracts http://www.boston.com/dailynews/217/wash/Halliburton_subsidiary_overcamP.shtml Cheney: "when there is corporate fraud, the government will prosecute" (really) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/08/politics/08CHEN.html?pagewanted=print more on Bill Simon's fraud (he knew nothing, nothing) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-me-simon7aug07005046.story http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-gov8aug08005054.story just as you figured: the Harken story is a liberal media conspiracy (this is so weirdly backward: major media largely ignored the story in 2000) http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york071202.asp United States v. Samuel Waksal http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/imclone/usvwaksal080702ind.pdf http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1028321291119 latest on WorldCom http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/Page/SpecialLevel1&cid=1024578255278 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/09/technology/09TELE.html?pagewanted=print&position=top Ex-Executives Say Sham Merrill Lynch Deal Helped Enron http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/08/business/08ENRO.html?pagewanted=print Banks, Attorneys Blast Corporate Bankruptcy Bill http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1028321280034 creeping dictatorship US Defies Judge on Enemy Combatant http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50845-2002Aug6?language=printer Congress Members Hit White House Over Secrecy ("even the most routine and basic congressional requests for information") http://www.thehill.com/080702/secrecy.shtm scroll down for an interesting list of FBI false terrorism alarms (more right-wing ambivalence about the authoritarian danger) http://www.insightmag.com/news/260123.html protesters (but not supporters) again kept far away from a speech by Bush ("we have open debate in our society", he says) http://www.news-record.com/news/opinions/ed1tues06.htm GOP Book Advises House Candidates ("when discussing Medicare, be careful to choose your terms carefully") http://dailynews.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=684&u=/ap/20020808/ap_on_el_ho/gop_advice_2&printer=1 let's revisit the clownish press coverage of the 2000 election (why? because it's election season again, and the same lies are back in style) http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh080502.shtml http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh080602.shtml http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh080702.shtml http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh080802.shtml http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh080902.shtml Fundamentalism's Threat to Democracy, Houston, 19 August 2002 http://www.tfn.org/faithnetwork/fundproject/conference/ American Anti-Confederate Society http://templeofdemocracy.com/ "the RNC did a focus group on the president's vacation" http://www.msnbc.com/news/791093.asp intellectual property critical analysis of the (minor) revisions to UCITA (which isn't dead yet) www-affectat_private/pdf/AFFECTresponseMarch%2002.pdf">http://www-affectat_private/pdf/AFFECTresponseMarch%2002.pdf assorted ICANN critics http://www.templetons.com/brad/dns/fix.html http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3742425599.html http://www.internetdemocracyproject.org/newslt14.htm search for prior art to defeat JPEG patent claims http://www.jpeg.org/newsrel1.htm peer-to-peer streaming audio http://www.peercast.org/ Gnutella Bandwidth Bandits (Web clients' selfishness didn't hurt the net, but that was pure luck) http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/08/gnutella_developers/print.html Radio Titan Clear Channel Hits the Skids ("their lack of a sense of humanity is shocking") http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/08/07/clear_channel/print.html everything else more on the much-criticized BMW 7-Series user interface http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020808.atc.17.ram Quantum Computer Called Possible With Today's Tech http://www.eetimes.com/printableArticle?doc_id=OEG20020806S0030 10 Reasons We Need Java 3.0 (claims that benefits of total overhaul outweigh backward compatiblity) http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/2524 serious tech review of Mozilla http://arstechnica.com/reviews/02q3/mozilla.1/moz-1.html claim of an efficient test for prime numbers (big as math, but in practice highly accurate probabilistic tests are faster) http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/news/primality.html increasing the distance between high-voltage wires to avoid killing raptors http://enn.com/news/enn-stories/2002/08/08022002/s_47756.asp the guy who saved the miners (he's a government bureaucrat, and you've never heard of him) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A57631-2002Aug8?language=printer funny column about brave new kindergarten http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48380-2002Aug6?language=printer Study: Schools Are Resegregating (we need desegregated schools so people will grow up knowing one another) http://www.msnbc.com/news/792013.asp http://www.censusscope.org/FreyWPFinal.pdf review of a book on the mass deaths from the 1995 Chicago heat wave http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/020812crbo_books more on the US Postal Service's latest stupid privatization trick (packages to Europe) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A57382-2002Aug7?language=printer how PR doubletalk gets from the pros to the end user: a textbook case (e.g., purposely vague "perceptions", selective facts, non sequiturs, etc) http://www.nacs.org/public/research/marketwatch/121.asp?id=cmb no, you don't need to drink a half-gallon of water a day http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020808.me.07.ram Making the World Safe for Obesity http://www.prwatch.org/spin/July_2002.html#1027915200 end
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