US claims victory in
exporting crypto-export controls
at Wassenaar.
Now
South Africa
mulls forcing ISPs to monitor the Net.
A research biologist succeeds in
dis-integrating Explorer,
confounding Microsoft's protestations of impossibility.
India is moving toward
heavy-handed Net interception.
What current case law says about
linking copyrighted material.
TBTF's Prognostication Contest --
minutes of fun for the easily amused.
What's left undone 30 years after
Engelbart's killer demo.
Cutting-edge technolust:
toys for geeks
just in time for the holidays.
A successful experiment in
six degrees.
A new security exploit: no
static, frames-based page
is safe.
Fears of an Open Software lockout ease as the
I2O SIG frees its spec.
They're taking a
Tomahawk missile
for a test cruise over Los Angeles — and they're our friends.
Reverberations from a
leaked Microsoft memo.
DigiCash goes down
— flawed concept or flawed execution?
Carbon nanotubes grown like
grass on glass.
The Halloween Document —
whose trick, whose treat?
Massive Mexican project
chooses Linux
for 140,000 school labs.
2,500 pigeons went
missing
in two smash races.
An NRC study says the
Net can't be secured.
Navigator 4.06
spies on you.
HALO to provide a
bitcloud above the city.
The
clouded future
of domain naming.
How real is the threat of a
European data embargo?
Bertelsmann's deal with Barnesnadnoble.com
nearly happened with Amazon
instead.
Linux company
Red Hat
gets investment from Intel, Netscape.
Access to
government cookies
is denied.
Would you like to
swing into space
on a rope?
The Net handles
the Starr report
in stride.
Digital execs say Microsoft
killed their project.
NetBus does most of what
Back Orifice
does, and on Windows NT.
The practice of
E-mall slamming
spreads.
A comparison of
virus scanners
turns up surprising differences in effectiveness.
Watching the watchers watch
Transmeta.
The
New IANA
plan pleases most of the people, most of the time.
Are these old Microsoft emails the
smoking gun
that shot DR-DOS?
You thought software patents were trouble? Now they're patenting
Net business models.
A cautionary tale of
Back Orifice:
beware of geeks bearing gifts.
Microsoft's Java defense is
at odds
with statements in the DoJ case.
Haven't you always wanted to
peck your cookies
to death?
Diversity-fed evolution is causing
churn
in the land of Linux.
They're tracking you. Still want to
bite that cookie?
Is it now
too late
to start on Y2K remediation?
Back Orifice is
open for mischief.
Is the name
altavista.com
worth $3M?
Tracking the spread of a
Web-era meme.
A revived
Communications Decency Act
passes the Senate.
What was Windows NT doing onboard a
disabled Navy ship?
An
interplanetary Internet --
more than global TLDs.
A custom computer
defeats DES
in 56 hours.
After a long respite,
four new security holes
in Microsoft Web products.
The
future of Linux
looks brighter after this roundtable.
Russia may force ISPs to
tip Big Brother.
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