A
trademark dispute
erupts over the word "Internet."
The secret intelligence services
invented public-key crypto
years before Diffie and Hellman.
More entries for the
TBTF Exclusionary Sites
Hall of Shame.
Phil Zimmermann
sells PGP
to a key recovery company.
Internet Explorer
4.01 --
it fixes bugs, it provides accessibility, it munches disk.
An English court
rules against
domain-name hoarders.
A
spineless spammer
bids to acquire some backbone.
Denial of service:
LAND attack
crashes TCP stacks.
Should
cookie files
be public records?
Which part of
make no law
don't you understand?
Another
Pacific island
is registering domain names.
Ganging up on Microsoft:
et tu, Nader?
The
buffer overrun
is #15 on the TBTF 1997 list of MSIE security bugs.
Sun
cheats on a Java benchmark,
says it was all a mistake.
Random numbers from
Lava Lite
lamps.
56-bit RC5 is
broken
in a massive distributed computation.
Is Internet Explorer a
virus?
Stop that
Pentium II
at the border.
How does Microsoft really see
Java?
Microsoft
security exploit #14
risks IE4 users' data.
IE4 causes an
uproar
among blind users.
The Spam King
sets the chutzpah meter
to 11.
Sun sues Microsoft
over Java incompatibility.
The House of Representatives
scrutinizes domain naming.
Alice encounters
a fabled kingdom
whose citizens can export only square wheels.
So the proposed Oxley amendment is
unconstitutional, unbelievably
expensive, and technically impossible.
So what's your point?
AGIS Internet
jettisons the spammers.
A New York firm aims to capture
accidental eyeballs.
Two committees of the House of Representatives
turn the SAFE bill into a
parody
of its former self.
A new IE4.0 bug lets Java applets
misbehave.
Netscape gets
patent protection for SSL.
The crypto debate
polarizes
some more.
Lycos patents the
intelligent spider.
Teledesic wants to throw a
fiber-optic net
around the world.
US encryption export rules are declared
unconstitutional.
When data about me is
not my data.
Find
little green men
at home in your spare cycles.
The Commerce Department wants to play
bring me a rock
with Web sites that download crypto software.
ActiveX technology
is rare on the ground.
The Commerce Department closes its request for comments on
domain names,
and boy did they get an earful.
PGP 5.0
legally escapes
US export restrictions.
The long-sought
blue laser
may be at hand.
Microsoft
invests in Apple --
what's it all mean?
A group of newsgroup administrators imposes the
Usenet death penalty
on UUNet.
The new
Java Mischief bug
affects MSIE, Netscape, and HotJava.
The
Ping Flood,
an old but revived denial-of-service attack, may have caused outages at
a major Internet switching center.
The
I2O alliance --
which looks suspiciously anti-Linux — makes a boo-boo.
Why does the
dreaded backhoe
display such an affinity for network fiber?
Eugene Kashpureff
hijacked InterNIC traffic
twice, and now he's enjoined.
A
declassified transcript
provides insight into the worldview of key-escrow advocates.
Hewlett Packard
reintroduces the slide rule
to the digital age.
The Internet has a
hard week
of snafus, cable breaks, and denial-of-service attacks.
Microsoft greets the hackers at the
Black Hat Briefing.
Meet Trellix, a
new breed of office software
for writing, reading, navigating, and printing hypertexts.
FBI director Louis Freeh wants
easy and secret access
to the keys of all US computer users.
A
large hole in JavaScript
opens your browsing history, and all of your keystrokes, to capture.
Is CussOut a mildly
malicious ActiveX applet,
or just a clever marketing ploy?
Is the IAHC plan for domain namimg
on hold
after the Commerce Department calls for public comment?
Yet another way —
SSPING/Jolt
— to kill a machine across the Net.
Open Market unveils the elegant metaphor of secure
digital coupons.
The Communications Decency Act's
patently offensive
provision is unconstitutional.
Learning good design by studying bad: meet the
Web Pages That Suck.
The earth has another
fellow traveller
besides the moon.
microsoft.com had been hard to reach and
hackers are part of the
reason why.
56-bit DES has been
cracked for the first time
in the largest cooperative Internet calculation ever.
The Pacific island of
Tonga has hung out its
shingle in competition with Network Solutions, Inc.
Signs and portents that the Administration is
losing
the battle to control encryption.
A Dane finds a
nasty Netscape bug
but gets no bounty.
What's new in the
fight against spam.
A new way to crash Windows machines at a distance --
WinNuke
— spreads on the Net.
Prominent cryptographers study the
costs of key recovery
and say we can't afford it.
How to make a
cup of coffee
compute.
The International Ad Hoc Committee's
Memorandum of Understanding
is signed, but opposition mounts.
Windows Magazine
de-lists
MS Office 97 and MS Outlook.
The largest ISPs start to
charge
the mid-sized ones.
Bill invites
a hundred CEOs
to see his new house.
The IAHC nervously watches
governments
belatedly grapple with domain naming.
An ODBC update opens a
security hole
in MS Office 97.
Sun
suborned
an ActiveX hack.
The
hooks and hingles
of the world.
EE Times spotlights a wannabe
Microsoft security issue #8,
but the company refutes it.
Austria goes dark to protest
a too-little, too-much police action.
Will
online gambling clean up
before Congress shuts it down? Can they shut it down?
Does
Alta Vista see all,
know all? Not hardly.
The Supreme Court hears
CDA arguments .
Microsoft struggles to address
three more security exploits.
Reports from
two conferences:
Financial Cryptography '97 and VRML '97.
javElink
does Web notification right.
A new group
directly challenges the IANA
for stewardship of Internet names.
Microsoft scrambles
to plug three security holes found by college students.
Now you can get
true random numbers
delivered to your browser.
Coming soon:
spam so personalized,
they're hoping you speak at least one of the languages in the email.
Online Design, Inc.
sues IANA and IAHC
over the .web domain.
The state of
encryption regulation outside the U.S.
How much will
HTTP 1.1 speed up the Web?
IAHC adds
seven top-level domains.
A demonstration of an
illicit funds transfer
via ActiveX.
In Java math all architectures are
not created equal.
Who is the
NaughtyRobot
and why is it telling me lies?
A new
NT security hole and a
workaround.
RSA's 40-bit challenge is
broken immediately.
Netscape's
Easter eggs.
Windows NT
outsells Unix in 1996 --
or does it?
Network Solutions Inc. is
making a botch
of the domain-name business.
Macromedia acquires
FutureWave.
The Commerce Department's
EAR
replaces ITAR.
RSA says:
break my cipher,
please.
What was the
Saturn-like object
near Comet Hale-Bopp?
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