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> "The Internet Gets Serious"
> Unresolved issues over securing the Internet and administering
> copyright law to the Web are some of the biggest obstacles to the
> growth of the U.S. technology industry.  Security experts believe
> that it would be advantageous for the government to utilize open ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item1
> 
> "'Spam' Multiplies, Spurring New Efforts to Curb It"
> With unsolicited commercial email multiplying exponentially,
> lawmakers and regulators are supporting measures that would
> impose severe restrictions on spam.  Anti-spam strategies are
> being floated or implemented by a number of entities, including ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item3
> 
> "Reporting Web Flaws Still Flawed"
> A partnership between the government and the private sector that
> should secure the Internet from attack is snarled up in
> infighting and rushed decision-making.  For example, a lack of
> coordination between Apache software developers and Internet ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item4
> 
> "Conference to Focus on Future of Internet"
> The Internet Society is hosting its 2002 INET conference in
> Arlington, Va., this week, where some of the world's leading
> technologists will meet to discuss the Internet's future.
> Tuesday's opening day featured workshops and educational forums ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item6
> 
> "Colleges are Defending Against Computer Hacker Attacks"
> College and university computer networks are ripe targets for
> hackers because of their openness, and the sophistication of such
> attacks has caused many schools to allocate more funds toward
> beefing up security.  Hacker attacks have risen sharply in the ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item10
> 
> "Beam Me Up!"
> Physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) report
> that they have successfully teleported a laser beam from one
> location to another almost instantaneously; although
> approximately 40 labs around the world have been conducting ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item11
> 
> "Questions Surround Domain Names"
> During the recent congressional hearing on ICANN, the issue of
> ICANN's management of the domain name system was spotlighted.
> Although everyone agrees that the DNS is functioning technically,
> ICANN is seen as bungling domain name policy issues.  Domain name ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item16
> 
> "Apache: Few Checks on License, Registration"
> Apache software has an open code, but the "corporate-friendly"
> terms of the Apache Software License have come under fire from
> Free Software Foundation (FSF) founder Richard Stallman for
> allowing companies to modify the code and pass it off as ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item18
> 
> "They Want You for a Safer Infrastructure"
> Critical Infrastructure Protection Board Chairman Richard Clarke
> and Vice Chairman Howard Schmidt aim to beef up the nation's
> cybersecurity by promoting cooperation between competing
> technology vendors, businesspeople, and bureaucrats.  The ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item19
> 
> "Study: Equal Security in All Software"
> At a technical conference in Toulouse, France, Cambridge
> University researcher Ross Anderson presented a paper concluding
> that idealized open-source programs have the same level of
> security as closed-source programs.  Anderson says the key ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item2
> 
> "Fears of Misuse of Encryption System Are Voiced"
> A prominent European technologist and University of Cambridge
> computer scientist has released a paper that points out the
> possible misuses of the encryption technology supported by the
> Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, a group which includes tech ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item3
> 
> "Web Thinkers Warn of Culture Clash"
> Engineers and policymakers met this week at the annual meeting of
> the nonprofit Internet Society to discuss how corporate and
> government initiatives could curtail the Internet's democratic
> aspects.  Government efforts, which are motivated by control, and ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item5
> 
> "Hard Lessons in Learning a Common Tongue"
> Web services, which will allow companies to take full advantage
> of the Internet, need a standardized way to communicate industry
> jargon and definitions between computer systems.  XML, or
> extensible markup language, is now the accepted platform for ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item6
> 
> "Taking Security Concerns Private: U.S. Appeals to IT Firms"
> Hobbled by a lack of expertise and staff, government
> administrators believe that the only way to develop technologies
> to help secure federal IT systems and defend the nation's
> critical infrastructure is to turn to the private sector.  The ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item12
> 
> "The End of the Revolution"
> In Milton L. Mueller's new book "Ruling the Root," Mueller traces
> how the DNS and the Internet have evolved from the time when Jon
> Postal allocated domain names himself while being funded by the
> Defense Department, to a utopia ideal of decentralized free ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item14
> 
> "Whose Domain Is It Anyway?"
> What is at stake in ICANN reform is who should oversee ICANN: the
> Internet community, the U.S. government as Sen. Conrad Burns
> (R-Mont.) advocates, or a polyglot of national governments,
> writes Esther Dyson.  Today ICANN provides a crucial role as the ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item15


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