Archive of entries posted on 25th June 2002

You’re reading WHAT?!?

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“The FBI is visiting libraries nationwide and checking the reading records of people it suspects of having ties to terrorists or plotting an attack, library officials say. The USA Patriot Act that President Bush signed in October both authorizes such searches and makes it a criminal offense for librarians to reveal the details or extent …

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Threats, E-mail, and pols

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Are the anti-virus companies actually falsely identifying threats? E-commerce Times weighs in following the JPEG claim last week. Stop using ISP-provided e-mail addresses? How? Well. . . Here’s some further discussion about ICANN’s upcoming meeting agenda; there’s apparently a push by European, South African and US politicians to try to control it. Speaking of politicians, …

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