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National Security and Open Government
October 18, 2003National Security and Open Government: Striking the right balance. Campbell Public Affairs Institute, The Maxwell School of Syracuse University. 2003. Commentaries edited by the Campbell Public Affairs Institute from a Symposium co-organized with the Open Society Justice Initiative. The terror attacks of September 11, 2001 have compelled a reappraisal of the balance that should be [...]
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How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle
October 17, 2003The Digital Imprimatur by John Walker September 13th, 2003 Revision 3 — October 9th, 2003. Once an optimist, Walker has turned pessimist and, in this white paper, describes in detail a “collection of technologies in various states of design, development, and deployment” that, if “implemented and extrapolated to their logical conclusion”, will create “an Internet [...]
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Trusted Computing: Promise and Risk
October 17, 2003EFF: Trusted Computing: Promise and Risk By Seth Schoen. The Electronic Frontier Foundation examines Microsoft “trusted computing” environment originally called Palladium and now referred to as the Microsoft Next-Generation Secure Computing Base, or NGSCB. Our most fundamental concern is that trusted computing systems are being deliberately designed to support threat models in which the owner [...]
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The great MP3 caper
October 17, 2003The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a new Flash movie aimed at explaining what’s good and what’s at risk with file-sharing. Check out the“Great MP3 Caper”. [shout out toboing boing]
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Book Excerpt: Digital Dilemmas: Ethical Issues for Online Media Professionals
October 17, 2003OJR article: Copyright Issues Present Ongoing Dilemma: To Link or Not To Link?
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RFID in Libraries
October 17, 2003USATODAY.com – SF library wants to track books with computer chips By Ron Harris, Associated Press, 10/3/2003. Radio frequency identification chips (RFID) have been in the news lately, mostly in the context of retailers and wholesalers who wish to track product shipments and ease commerical transactions. (See, for instance, Don’t Let Protesters Scare You About [...]
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FCC Plan Would Cripple Computers
October 17, 2003FCC Targets Copying of Digital TV (TechNews.com) By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Thursday, October 16, 2003; Page E01. The FCC is considering a rule that would require that personal computers to comply with a “broadcast flag” that would be embedded in digital television signals. Opponents of the proposed rule… are especially concerned that the plan [...]
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Patriot Act Curbing Data Retention
October 17, 2003Patriot Act Curbing Data Retention New York Times October 13, 2003, Monday, Late Edition – Final. By Bob Tedeschi. Section C; Page 6; Column 1; Business/Financial Desk. This story explains how some retailers are concerned about the privacy of their records and are taking steps to keep their records private … and how others, like [...]
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Ejournal for bibliographic instruction
October 17, 2003Journals Division of UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS SIMILE is a journal that is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals which can be found at this site: http://www.doaj.org/ This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The aim of SIMILE is to provide a venue for scholarly articles which will [...]
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Pentagon Restores Unclassified Documents
October 17, 2003Yahoo! News Oct 16, 2003. The Pentagon restored Internet access Thursday to hundreds of unclassified documents that it recently took offline, including directives on myriad topics, from defining policies on conscientious objectors to displaying flags at half-staff. A Pentagon spokesman is quoted as saying that “about 10,000 documents were pulled” off the web after the [...]