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News: Antivirus firms: FBI loophole is out of line |
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2:32 am EST, Dec 13, 2001 |
Antivirus software vendors said Monday they don't want to create a loophole in their security products to let the FBI or other government agencies use a virus to eavesdrop on the computer communications of suspected criminals. News: Antivirus firms: FBI loophole is out of line |
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Big Brother's watching - Tech News - CNET.com |
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2:05 am EST, Dec 12, 2001 |
"Do most of your customers disclose to their employees that they're being monitored, and what are the legal issues surrounding that?
Everybody is moving to full disclosure. We encourage it.
Every company has a right to monitor an employee while they're at work, whether it be phone or e-mail.
Do your clients usually monitor everyone at the company?
We've had executives that say, "I don't want myself to be monitored." CEOs are never going to be monitored. " Big Brother's watching - Tech News - CNET.com |
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3:08 am EST, Dec 7, 2001 |
"One aspect of our culture that is no longer open to question is that the most significant developments in the sciences today (i.e. those that affect the lives of everybody on the planet) are about, informed by, or implemented through advances in software and computation." Table of contents for this issue: Marc D. Hauser: How Does The Brain Generate Computation?
Jaron Lanier: The Central Metaphor Of Everything?
Alan Guth: A Golden Age Of Cosmology
David Gelernter: Streams
Jordan Pollack: Software, Property & Human Civilization Edge 95 |
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Salon.com Technology | Internet optimism lives! |
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3:07 am EST, Dec 7, 2001 |
From a Stanford symposium on the Web, a brief report on that rare, (lucky?) Valley dweller with an upbeat outlook. Choice excerpts: "We need to work to ensure that the original values of the Web endure." ... Paul Saffo (here he is again!) says: "There's never been a better time to think about where the Web is going, and everybody has a lot of time to think about it. ... Most ideas in Silicon Valley take 20 years to become an overnight success." Nathaniel Borenstein (remember him, c'punks?) says, "from the burned fields left behind by the Web's wildfire, will the pre-Web Internet reemerge? ... Once, the Net was a genuine commons. ... we have to acknowledge that the commons has been destroyed. That doesn't mean that we can't rebuild it." The net, a commons? Borenstein's been reading some Lessig lately, maybe? Salon.com Technology | Internet optimism lives! |
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Monthly Archives for interesting-people |
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3:54 pm EST, Dec 5, 2001 |
Dave Farber's interesting people list. Computer/Network Policy bent. When other information sources are spammed out, in flames, or covered with ads, this one pulls through. Monthly Archives for interesting-people |
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No Thumbprint, No Rental Car |
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2:47 pm EST, Nov 21, 2001 |
"The only print of mine Dollar is going to get is the front side of my middle finger," Glave said. This is disturbing considering the natural suspicion that would follow a refusal to allow finger printing. No Thumbprint, No Rental Car |
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Winnowing grain from the Internet chaff : ICON : News |
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12:19 am EST, Nov 16, 2001 |
From an article in the Australian newspaper _The Age_: "Reputation is the key to sifting the good from the bad on the Web. "How do you sort out the good stuff on the Web?" People have been asking this question ever since the Web specification escaped from its home in a Swiss nuclear research lab. Most Web professionals see it as pointless: They know what they trust. But only when I tried to answer this question for a friend recently did I realise how the answer has continued to change." Damn I need funding for this.... Winnowing grain from the Internet chaff : ICON : News |
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