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homeless hacker cuts deal with Feds
January 13, 2004According to this Wired story, Adrian Lamo has pled guilty to hacking into the NYT and LexisNexis computer networks. This is a strange case in which the NYT, LexisNexis, and federal prosecutors (IMHO) have been extremely heavy-handed. Lamo is a “white hat” hacker who broke into networks and then reported security flaws to the companies. [...]
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Will ALA sign on to this RFID position paper?
January 12, 2004RFID Position Statement on the Use of RFID on Consumer Products, November 14, 2003. Issued by: Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and numbering (CASPIAN), Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) , Junkbusters, Meyda Online, and PrivacyActivism. Includes a brief discussion of implications for libraries.
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2004 Bloggies award
January 8, 2004> Features >> Fourth Annual Weblog Awards” href=”http://www.fairvue.com/?feature=awards2004″>Fourth Annual Weblog Awards. Vote for your favorite blog!
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Do Web search engines suppress controversy?
January 8, 2004Do Web search engines suppress controversy? by Susan L. Gerhart. First Monday, Volume 9, Number 1 Ñ January 5th 2004. Web behavior depends upon three interlocking communities: (1) authors whose Web pages link to other pages; (2) search engines indexing and ranking those pages; and (3) information seekers whose queries and surfing reward authors and [...]
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Search Engine Watch on Google
January 7, 2004Google’s (and Inktomi’s) Miserable Failure A few weeks ago, blogs and emails pointed out that if you searched Google for “miserable failure” the top ranked site was a George Bush biography page at the U.S. Whitehouse web site. This article examines why and concludes that “the real miserable failure is Google itself.” The article includes [...]
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“Intellectual Property” newsletter from National Academies
January 7, 2004IP @ The National Academies IPR-NEWS is a quarterly e-newsletter featuring information on intellectual property rights-related events, reports and projects at the National Academies.
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The FBI Almanac Memo
January 6, 2004FBI: Potential Terrorist Use of Almanacs A few days ago, the news was full of stories about the FBI memo that warned of “potential terrorist use of almanacs.” Now, Cryptome has the memo itself. This might be just silly and worthy of ridcule, parody, and even a light moment on NPR: BLOCK: Maybe it’s there [...]
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“blog” the #2 word of 2003
January 5, 2004According to yourDictionary.com , “blog” is the #2 word of 2003. #!? “Embedded”. Read on.
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High-tech black market
January 5, 2004High-tech black market by Annalee Newitz of the SF Bay Guardian. An interesting article about fair use, and how the DMCA is creating a large black market for software to circumvent DRM. “But as the stakes get higher in crimes of circumvention, the losers are bound to be innocent consumers and white-hat hackers. In their [...]
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Open Access News for January, 2004
January 5, 2004Here’s the The january issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 1/2/04. In addition to the usual round-up of news and bibliography from the past month, it takes a close look at open access momentum during 2003, the “many-copy problem” and “many-copy solution”, and the gap between the literature directly available through a university library [...]