Microsoft's
Internet strategy , pitting Visual Basic and the new VBScript against
Java and JavaScript.
Sun's Java language
and what it could mean for the Web and beyond.
Some dissenting views on
Java's significance.
Legal efforts by the
Church of Scientology to get the toothpaste back in the tube after Church
documents were published on the Net; and legal defeats in
Washington,
California,
Virginia,
Colorado
The use of
electronic one-time pads
for a radically more secure encryption technology; and a challenge to one
company's claim to this technology by the
Cypherpunks.
The privacy implications of multiplying Web sites with
registration required before
you can access the prime content.
The spread of mailing-list spam:
a discussion with a real-world example, and some of the
countermeasures the Net is evolving to deal with the problem.
The measurement of Web-site visitors /
readers and the limits on what a Web server can know.
The ClickShare proposal for
Internet commerce and collection — addressing questions of privacy, advertising
demographics, and security.
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