] "Says cinematographer Bill Pope: “It’s going to make
] ‘The Fast and the Furious’ look like ‘The Slow and the Dimwitted’.”

Excellent read! Can't wait!

Make a mental note: 2003 is going to be the year of “The Matrix.”

Decius wrote:
] ] "The Bush administration is planning to propose requiring
] ] Internet service providers to help build a centralized
] ] system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and,
] ] potentially, surveillance of its users."
]
] This is the big story of the day. This is the Communications
] Assistance for Law Enforcement Act 2.0... Unlike the streets,
] where people seem to be meek, on the net this sort of thing
] never flies. They have people howling all over the place and
] the report hasn't even been released yet! :)

If you set aside the conspiracy theories, the proposed system actually sounds a lot like the "NIMI" that NSF and DARPA are already doing. In addition to NIMI, there is a standing proposal for a "GIMI." You may also already know about CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis.

I've linked to the NIMI site here.

Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet

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IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience

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]
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]
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In 2003, IEEE is offering a new publication that may be of interest to you.

IEEE Security & Privacy magazine

"What does the future hold when every garage has got a new car in it?"

As Post-Boom Dust Settles, the South Grimly Downsizes

] Steganography, and whether or not terrorists are using it:
] http://elonka.com/steganography/

Bruce Schneier has included the URL for Elonka's talk in the latest issue of the Crypto-Gram newsletter.

PhreakNIC hits the big time! Maybe you can get Schneier to show up next year and give a keynote speech.

Also, this URL should be updated to include a link to MemeStreams.

Counterpane: Crypto-Gram: December 15, 2002

(3) the social environment in which thoughts originate and evolve, and mindsets develop.

MemeStreams is not Yet Another Web Site.

Beyond 'Couch Potatoes' | First Monday

Decius wrote:
] ] Henry Kissinger ... "a troubling signal ...
] ] that this is the person who is going to lead this effort."
]
] I think this guy is just plain too controversial
] to be responsible for something like this.

Tom, the New York Times agrees with you:

] "His affinity for power and the commercial interests
] he has cultivated since leaving government may make him
] less than the staunchly independent figure that is needed
] for this critical post. Indeed, it is tempting to wonder if
] the choice of Mr. Kissinger is not a clever maneuver by the
] White House to contain an investigation it long opposed."

The Kissinger Commission

Was there really a gender gap in Blogville? The answer, I soon learned, was complicated.

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