TBTF ping for 2001-06-11:: Friend Indeed

• An appeal for a TBTF Irregular and a good friend

• TBTF's long hiatus is drawing to a close

• A perfect privacy storm
• Regulatory foolishness abroad France: unintended consequences
  Australia: streaming content = broadcasting?
  Germany: taxing Internet use at work
• Spam fighters duke it out
• MAPS RBL finally gets sued
• NSI holding overdue names to ransom
• Poking at Echelon
• What if smart people wrote computer viruses?
• Take It Offline evolves into Quick Topic
• The View from Softpro
• The CARROT and the STIC
• Many fathers

• Domain naming as speech Dot Republicans
  Exploiting Elian
  Advertising and humor
• Adbots and spyware
• Dow Jones to launch a bandwidth index
• WebWirelessNow and infolinks
• Jargon Scout dot-communist
  bugwards-compatible
  emailingering
• Process monitor as lava lamp
• That darn paperclip

• Catching up again ICANN in Cairo
  Amazon.com poisons the well
• Breakers of Cyber Patrol get sued and settle on Internet time
• Judge rules that deep linking is OK
• Anonymity under fire
• Process Tree Network: monetarized distributed computing
• TBTF book review: At Home in the Universe
• Jargon Scout: four terms for our time
• Quick bits Edinburgh Financial Cryptography Engineering conference
  Cryptome daily news
  Mailexpire
  Accompany becomes MobShop

• Catching up
• Privacy boils over DoubleClick flip-flops, gets sued
  Texas company accuses Yahoo of privacy violations
• TBTF book review: Database Nation
• Playing keep-away with scrambled files
• An artificial newsreader
• QuickLinks
• Hubat: A promising automatic directory builder
• Quick bits Y2K the molecule
  Snow screeching on water
  Noodle

• Is eToys paying in market cap for bullying etoy?
• Backflip and the limitations of privacy policies
• German high court overturns censorship verdict
• OpenSRS to blow open domain-name competition
• NSI suspends its dispute-resolution policy
• The Internet Freedom Journalism Awards
• A systematic model for selecting cryptographic key sizes
• Unimobile: a worldwide mobile device made of bits
• Year 2000 Corner: assessing Y2K's worldwide impact
• See anywhere from anywhere

• The straight dope on the DVD encryption crack
• Introducing t byfield's roving_reporter
• Not.com
• Google's submarine ads push Network Solutions
• TBTF book review: High Stakes, No Prisoners
• Siliconia: Silicon Valley Forge, a.k.a. Philicon Valley
• The largest online transaction so far
• webACE: the world's smallest Web server
• Working 3-D optical storage
• Quick bits The return of the vacuum tube
  Why is there rain?
  An odd day
• The TBTF Log experiment
• Department of shameless commerce

• Transmeta aims squarely at Intel
• ICANN, NSI, Commerce kiss and make up
• US cryptography export rules eased
• 97 >> 512
• A working Israeli quantum computer (not)
• Take It Offline: enhancing online discussion
• Neural network said to beat people at speech recognition
• Quick bits and followups Amazon's zShops
  Google site comes out of beta
  Eclipse followups
• On trusting code
• Egg hunt

• EU moving rapidly to open export of strong crypto Sweden: general license for 128-bit crypto
  Germany deregulates crypto exports
• Sorting out the Microsoft _NSAkey flap
• US Army moves from NT to Macintosh Web server
• Swedish teen on trial for linking to music files
• Robot misbehavior Log-file pollution
  Cost transfer
• Smart dust
• Dark matter annihilation at the galaxy's core
• The partial eclipse at the duomo
• Here's how it works

• Researchers factor RSA-155
• Court goes against trademark holder in domain-name dispute
• ICANN's Santiago meeting
• US panel recommends relaxing crypto controls
• Windows 2000 DDNS: control battle coming?
• Windows Trojans collected
• Netscape offers a compact encryption upgrade
• Will software patents endanger open-source development?
• Ancient software
• Jargon Scout
• The Luddite Reader
• Aibo rampant on a field azure

• Justice Department wants a warrant to break into your computer
• Court to AOL: you've got bupkus
• Privacy policies and cookies
• Looking for one good technology team
• Donald Knuth to lecture at MIT on "God and Computers"
• Debunking a new urban legend: "chemtrails"
• Race you to the edge of the solar system
• Year 2000 corner SEC gets tough
  Don't call it a bunker
  State Department's list of naughty and nice
  Airlines playing it cautious
  Y2K backdoor?
  Y2K compliance with a twisted grin

• Food fight
• The Microsoft trial you haven't heard of
• Domain naming news Price war for domain names begins
  ICANN cuts NSI's influence
• Voyeur cams and the law
• The short life of the Fidnet proposal
• Reno urged banning crypto products on the Internet
• Open source governance models
• OS usability challenge issued
• Censorware Project roasts N2H2's Bess
• It's a strange world after all (not)
• Too close
• Delusional

• Bill to relax crypto exports is gutted
• House holds hearing on ICANN
• US national identity card looms in October
• US Senate committee OKs a digital signature bill
• A gaggle of geeks
• Searchspy
• The Hunger Site
• The beginnings of molecular-scale computing
• Tracking satellites at home
• Lunar Prospector to go out in a blaze of... water?
• Block that metaphor

• Domain naming developments
• Cult of the Dead Cow strikes at Microsoft's heart
• Taxing the Internet
• Microsoft prevails in Bristol antitrust case
• Spammers lose ground in Canada and Austria
• Heads up for XHTML
• IE4 chews bandwidth
• One fiber-optic network, hold the fiber
• New Mersenne prime is worth $50,000
• A confusion of ideas

• Anything ICANN do
• US admits crypto export controls are about signals intelligence
• Baby steps towards privacy marketing
• Google turbocharges Netscape's search page
• @Home to limit upstream bandwidth
• Hazards of the young and mobile Is your cell phone damaging your brain?
  Neural confusion engendered by PDAs
• SETI at home
• Maybe this year a storm
• Best of the Web logs Two, two, two sites in one
  An online auction for domain-name speculators
  A line around the world
  Odd bits
• The patron saint of the Internet

• Light shining on Echelon
• Worm tracks Worm.Explore.Zip worm packs a devastating payload
  PrettyPark worm/trojan hits Windows users
• Supreme Court reverses on Zurko patent
• A report from ICANN's Berlin meeting
• Klones
• Jargon Scout Filler app
  e2e, offlist
  FBC
• The Blue Screen of Death evolves
• The Skycar
• Elements 118 and 116 produced at Berkeley
• Two ancient floods Pangaean lava
  Martian water
• New units coming
• Trinkets for topologists

• HushMail: free Web-based email with bulletproof encryption
• ICANN increasingly under fire
• Good news and bad news from Europe EU reverses course, won't ban caching
  EU passes mandatory Net wiretap regulation
• Canada will not regulate the Net
• Domain-name competition? Not yet
• Live from Linux Expo
• Chicken Little was right

• Intercepting communications worldwide
• An advance in factoring: Shamir's TWINKLE
• Bernstein wins appeal
• Stunning Australian censorship proposal could become law
• Talk of US-mandated disabled access to Web pages is premature
• Electronic ink debuts
• The e-Coast
• Snailmail for the Internet age
• Web logs
• The world through an eBay lens eBayla
  Car dealer accused of libeling a competitor
  Auctioning an ISP team
  13-year-old bids $3M, thinking it's a game
• Jargon Scout: Netopath

• At long last, domain-name competition
• Two court rulings on domain names A typo pirate is slapped
  Domain names are property
• An Open Source virtual private network
• My favorite icon
• British court rules ISPs must police content
• Get a cable modem, go to jail
• Magnetic RAM
• Four records The first multi-planet extrasolar system
  The most distant galaxy
  The thinnest conductor
  The largest bacterium
• Three fripperies A versatile dialectizer
  Making HTML misbehave
  The ad graveyard

• NSI's power grab
• Caching may become illegal in Europe
• Infomediaries
• Getting a handle on open source licenses
• Clue train
• The first e-serial novel
• Introducing Lloyd Wood's Jaundiced Eye
• Mouse type
• WebWasher
• Heyidiot.com

• FCC half-rules that calls to ISPs are long-distance
• The long reach of the NSA
• Update on NetBus and other trojans
• HTML smudging
• Bookmarklets
• Browser wars of the radio-telegraph age
• The database that NSI forgot
• Glenn Fleishman's Unsolicited Pundit
• A Silicon Continent?
• Pennsylvania puts its URL on license plates
• Light of other days

• Eolas sues Microsoft over patent covering ActiveX
• Strikes over high telecomm costs spread
• Open Source gets mainstream boosts
• Ganging up on Microsoft Microsoft and Java
  Attention Mr. Boies
  Be Inc. debunks Microsoft claims
  How Microsoft leverages education grants
• Research notes Toward the optical transistor
  Cracking RSA easier than factoring?
  Space mirror breaks
• Beating down an urban legend
• Ko-boom
• Dark skies

• CDA-II ruled unconstitutional
• Squammers
• Windows Refund Day
• A new kind of trademark dispute
• Net weather and traffic
• IBM joins Linux International
• Book bots
• Followups Intel's Big Brother problems multiply
  Compromised utility package updated
  We can get it for you wholesale
  Becoming a Y2K urban legend
• An interview at the NSA
• Rings

• Software distribution center cracked
• Portal plays
• Intel relents
• Lyrics Server shut down
• Deep Crack and distributed.net beat DES III
• France eases crypto restrictions
• A progress report on global electronic commerce
• Business model patents challenged
• Networking the home
• A history of online magazines
• Year 2000 corner Pot calls kettle non-Y2K-compliant
  Report of a very Confucian incentive is a joke

• Uncensored Australian crypto report comes to light
• NT 4.0 fails government cryptography test
• Judge orders Sun, Microsoft to settle Java dispute
• Supreme Court says computer algorithms can be patented
• Make it up on volume
• Quick bits Microsoft releases a fix for frame spoof
  No kudos from BugNet
  Cyber Underwriters Laboratories
  India warns against US crippleware
  A specialized shopping bot
• Jargon Scout: verbing dog-food
• Physics news of 1998
• Year 2000 corner

• An offshore view of free US browsers
• Cookie privacy flaw affects most browsers
• Brazilian Internet strike virus spreading by email
• Blue Mountain gets early win in Microsoft suit
• US loosens crypto export rules
• Open Source quantum computing
• Followup: on not linking
• Silicon creatures
• Blue moons