Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Tuesday, September 24, 2002

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IBM Unveils Built-In Digital Security for Mainframes: "... operating system for the eServer mainframe will have built-in digital authentication capability." [osOpinion]


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A Cybersage Speaks His Mind: "David Sorkin of the John Marshall Law School ... says in an interview that privacy and intellectual property have both come to the forefront in terms of Internet-related law, but that there is little need for new legislation. Instead, Sorkin argues that most problems relating to the online world can be solved using laws intended for the offline world." [ACM News]


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Deborah Branscum points to The Skinny on Lessig at Los Angeles Times: The Cultural Anarchist vs. the Hollywood Police State. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]


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Wired: "Negroponte.  Mesh networks and the breakthrough in last mile connectivity (via Rajesh and Anand).  This also may be a way to route around censorship that media companies want to install on wireline networks.
Because further down the street, beyond the reach of my system, another neighbor has put in Wi-Fi. And another, and another. Think of a pond with one water lily, then two, then four, then many overlapping, with their stems reaching into the Internet."
[John Robb's Radio Weblog]


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Media future: Risk of monopoly?: "The Christian Science Monitor deserves kudos for its coverage of the full-steam-ahead approach to media concentration now taking place in DC: Media future: Risk of monopoly? Rewriting ownership rules could affect the balance between commercial and public interests." [JD's New Media Musings]