TBTF Chronological Contents, 1995-1996
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TBTF for 1996-12-24: Fasgrolia
- Judge rules ITAR unconstitutional in Bernstein case
- A new structure for top-level domain names is proposed
- Apple acquires NeXT
- Netscape Communicator 4.0 beta ships early
- Should felons connect?
- AltaVista to accept advertising
- An update on the GIF-LZW saga
- FutureSplash
- A little night physics
- Jargon Scout: Fasgrolia
TBTF for 1996-12-14: Flight 54 where are you?
- Opposition is building to key-recovery plan
- Web spoofing: now why didn't we think of this before?
- Microsoft bids to dilute Java
- E-commerce: a go-slow forecast and a counterexample
- Cable channels try to turn the tables
- The largest spam in history, so far
- A new Net access point
- Push, push, push
- Company and product news
Microsoft acquires NetCarta; Netscape licenses ODI's Persistent
Storage Engine; PGP announces PGPcookie.cutter and PGPmail 4.5;
Taligent technology bridges Web server APIs
- A business-plan assembly kit
- Flight 54 where are you?
TBTF for 1996-12-02: Primetime for Pentiums
- PGP, Inc. buys PrivNet
- Here's pushing at you, kid
- HP, Intel, and Microsoft team on key-recovery framework
- Two ways to crack an NT
- Hitting spammers from the supply side
- Mac Internet Explorer now available with Metrowerks Java
- Update on the International Ad Hoc Committee
- An Internet fable and how it grew
- How to search domain namespace by company
- What's your segment?
- Primetime for Pentiums
TBTF for 1996-11-12: Where seek is find
- From the Internet Law Symposium
- Good news for roamers
- A new crypto cracking technique proves versatile
- Death ping
- A once-theoretical threat to Unix systems materializes
- Java bugs cause problems under load
- IE 3.0 for Macintosh and a browser-wars update
- Tasty
- Online commerce and the single girl
- Personalized content
- Where seek is find
TBTF for 1996-10-31: Information super chariot
track
- Backbone woes and the end of flat-rate pricing
- Flogging key recovery abroad
- A plan for adding new domains hits a speed bump
- Cyber Promotions, the largest email spammer, staggers
- Trustmarks for electronic transaction
- Oracle and Netscape team up (against guess who)
- Halloween special: Web crawlers
- Science Surf
- Information super chariot track
TBTF for 1996-10-20: Blind chihuahua
- Whither Netscape?
- Taking ITAR to court in Cleveland
- A heavyweight newsletter on electronic commerce
- Exploring the elephant
- Yet another new paradigm for delivering Web content
- A pornagraphy safety net is floated in the UK
- Blind chihuahua
TBTF for 1996-10-09: Can't get there from here
- SYN flooding revisited: defenses emerge
- Followup: What Marimba is up to
- Yet another spin on key escrow
- Injunction against a spammer
- Spam relief for the U.K.? Not
- Followup: Crypto anarchy
- Paul Erdos is dead at 83
- Can't get there from here
TBTF for 1996-09-23: Next year in Anguilla
- The thorniest denial-of-service attack
- The CIA's home page hacked
- Followup: new email-alias service treads a fine line
- The view from here
- NTT moves into e-cash
- Next year in Anguilla
TBTF for 1996-09-08: En Espanol
- Are NT Workstation and NT Server the same?
- AOL enjoined from blocking spam
- A pioneer anonymous remailer shutters the shop
- Religion on the Net
- Followup: How's Java doing?
- Essential Tools: Publicizing your Web page
- Learning to think like an email direct marketer
- En Espanol
TBTF for 1996-08-25: A simple twist of spam
- More top-level international domains are on the way
- Netscape and Microsoft turn up the heat
- Princeton's crack team fingers a hole in Internet Explorer
- Phil Zimmermann wins Norbert Wiener award
- Mac cryptography conference scheduled
- Hackers hit Justice Department Web site
- A simple twist of spam
TBTF for 1996-08-18: Like Wildfire
- Search from your browser's URL window
- A newsletter on Net security
- Classifying Internet payment systems
- What are consumers doing online?
- Followup: Ultraseek public beta
- Jargon Scout: a short quote as a nickname
- Essential Tools: tips and tricks from one of the best
- Like Wildfire
TBTF for 1996-08-08: Ein kleines Nachtwortspiel
- An equal opportunistic encryptor
- MSNBC uses Netscape Navigator on a Macintosh
- An imaginative business built on four domain names
- PhotoBubbles
- The first Excel macro virus
- Can you use NT Workstation as a Web server?
- Followup: Germany calls on UN to create Web standards
- Ein kleines Nachtwortspiel
TBTF for 1996-07-21: Internesia
- The Seven Cryptographers answer a shadowy opponent
- U.S citizens can now download 128-bit Netscape Navigator
- Looking back (I)
- Looking back (II)
- Jargon Scout
TBTF for 1996-07-14: Mutiny on the
Internet
- A carrot, a stick, and a judge
- Great-grandson of Clipper
- A timeline of Internet history
- The long, dark mineshaft to Web profits
- Now that's a backbone
- Biometric encryption
- Mutiny on the Internet
TBTF for 1996-07-02: Buzzword luck
- An unstable environment but mine own
- Strange bedfellows Down Under
- Marimba: Java pioneers' new company emerges partway into the light
- The most venerable What's New page goes dark
- Sorted out
- Buzzword luck
TBTF Bulletin, 1996-06-12:
Commumications Decency Act overturned
TBTF for 1996-05-31: People know you're
a dog
- A slow news week
- Tired of coding HTML tables?
- Over the transom
- The Bandwidth Conservation Society
- Too many hits
- People know you're a dog
TBTF for 1996-05-20: Link at your peril
- White House to propose Grandson of Clipper
- Fatter pipes: a survey
- Cypherpunks in meatspace
- New MS Word macro virus "Challenge" uncovered
- From the International Java Developers Conference
- Georgia law could prohibit Web links
TBTF for 1996-05-12: Pasta, fruit, and
a roll
- HTML 3.2 tries to halt proprietary drift
- Ultraseek
- Prodigy bought out by executives and Mexican backers
- Two new Java security holes
- Of maps and imagemaps
- Your own private tunnel
- The Lunch Menu Man
TBTF for 1996-05-05: Land rush in
namespace
- From Spring Internet World
- A global bulletin board
- Become an international arms trafficker in one click
- Followup: Yahoo sidesteps controversy over switchboard.com database
- Land rush in namespace
TBTF for 1996-04-28: Listen what
DaveMan say
- Java prepares to descend into the OS
- Netscape leads coalition to define Internet directory services
- Web sites that advertise too much and the surfers who loathe them
- What "R" (of "RSA") has been up to
- Internet Privacy Coalition
- Followup: "Le Grand Secret" in English
- Apple's Internet strategy: Me too little too late
TBTF for 1996-04-21: Daylight snafu time
- Followup: Zero-tolerance security policy revisited
- Followup: Net telephony challenge
- Followup: Free services and privacy
- Bernstein case: source code is protected speech
- Speedy weather
- An excessively underappreciated page
- Daylight snafu time
TBTF for 1996-04-14: All Greek to me
- Anatomy of a protracted Net attack
- How fast are your Web pages being delivered?
- A theoretical model of server performance
- Serious wordsmithery at Cork and Case
- All Greek to me
TBTF for 1996-04-07: Lawyers guns and
Linux
- Basic patent in online commerce conquors all
- Free services page
- The Internet Caucus
- An engrossing study of crime on the Net
- Strong crypto under attack across Europe. Now Belgium. Who knew?
- Enforcing the CDA improperly may pervert Internet architecture
- Lawyers guns and Linux
TBTF for 1996-03-24: There's no there
there
- Netscape Navigator 2.01 released -- lets users disable JavaScript
- Top Web sites of the week
- Netscape to build in telephony
- There's no there there
TBTF for 1996-03-17: It Still Doesn't
Network
- ISDN: one user's story
- The backlash against free speech on the Net
- Followup: Essential Tools
- Followup: Deadline extended for individuals to join CIEC lawsuit
- Followup: Mark Twain Bank and DigiCash
- Followup: Java and JavaScript security concerns escalate
TBTF for 1996-03-10: Three-headed-dog
night
- Are they listening?
- Bills introduced to ease cryptography export regulations
- Hanging up the I-Phone
- The funniest 650K you'll download this month
- An online who's-who of cryptography researchers
- Full U.S. phone book, residential and business, now online
- Security (1): Apple server unbreached in 45-day open challenge
- Security (2): Followup on JavaScript flaws
- Security (3): Another hole in Java, fixed
- Security (4): The real story of Microsoft's Registration Wizard
- Security (5): Three-headed-dog night
TBTF for 1996-03-03: Binding with briars
my joys and desires
- A case study of the effects of a software patent
- A case study of the effects of a software copyright
- An analysis of Sun, Netscape, Microsoft, and Apple moves
- Network security scanners
- Comparitive review of Web search engines
- Followup: a new lawsuit against the CDA
- Paint it red
TBTF for 1996-02-27: Ribbon 'n' blues
- JavaScript can't claim to be secure
- Americans can now legally go abroad bearing PGP
- Essential Tools
- Jargon Scout
- Followup: Cross-platform color compatibility
- Ribbon 'n' blues
- Emendation (V. Jelanik cite)
TBTF for 1996-02-19: Aftermath of
indecency
- Fallout from the Communications Decency Act
- IBM's Aqui: organized copyright violation
- Validating the standards makers
- Java and JavaScript
TBTF for 1996-02-10: Netscape's new
features; indecency on hold
- Netscape Navigator 2.0 is out
- 1995 on the Net
- Followup: censorship provisions in the telecomm reform bill
- Metaphor crash
TBTF for 1996-02-04: Imminent death of
Usenet predicted
- The Wild West becomes the Bible Belt overnight
- Blue ribbons and black pages
- Followup: German networks' blocking access to webcom.com
- Tim May, Charles Platt, Carl Kadie observations
TBTF for 1996-01-31: Nailing jello to a
tree
- Germany is at it again
- France tries to ban a book
- Netscape 2.0 to ship without Java support on Macintosh
- Et tu, states?
- Neither flame nor spam nor storm of Net
TBTF for 1996-01-22: Free-speech
farrago; junk-mail viruses
- Do hate groups deserve free speech?
- Microsoft acquires Vermeer Technologies
- What good is the Net?
- Followup: Scientology wins one for a change
- A new planet swims into Sun's ken
- Junk-mail viruses
TBTF for 1996-01-14: PGP flies free
- Government drops prosecution of Philip Zimmermann, author of PGP
- Followup: Compuserve, Usenet, and the German prosecutors
- Followup: More on Digital's Alta Vista spider
TBTF for 1995-12-31: Compuserve
censors Usenet; DigiCrime
- Compuserve's censorship of Usenet newsgroups
- Essential tools: BareBones Guide to HTML, Introduction to security on
the Net, Web server data
- Followup: Intuit's official statement on Social Security numbers
- DigiCrime
TBTF for 1995-12-22: Intuit
reconsiders on SSN; money laundering vs. privacy
- Intuit's banking service revealed users' Social Security numbers
- Is the money half-dirty or half-clean?
- Gamelan registry for Java applets
- Another country heard from: FTC launches Web privacy initiative
- Sue for your right to spam
- Apple and Microsoft stop talking about relicensing Windows
- Konrad Zuse dies at 85
TBTF for 1995-12-18: Digital's Alta
Vista spider; one-time pads and Cypherpunks
- Tenegra Internet Marketing Excellence awards announced
- Followup: Elementrix's "Power One Time Pad" technology reconsidered
- Followup: quantum cryptography
- Followup: Scientology loses two more
TBTF for 1995-12-15: Timing is all;
Microsoft security in the crosshairs
- Fundamental vulnerability identified in many public-key cryptosystems
- Microsoft quietly patches over a security chasm
- Community ConneXion strikes again
- Netscape Bugs Bounties claimed
- Everybody's getting an Internet strategy (Lotus)
- Essential tools: Web style guide
- Don't look now
TBTF for 1995-12-10: Punctuated
equilibrium: Visual Basic vs. Java
- Microsoft's Internet strategy
- Followup: Protests planned against "indecency" bill
- Followup: Scientology loses two more
- Followup: credit to neeri
TBTF for 1995-12-06: List hijacking
revisited; the state of Usenet spam
- I. The Crusader / National Alliance spams
- II. List hoovering by iaf.net
- The state of Usenet spam
- House conferees approve sweeping net censorship
- Netcom not liable in Scientology case
TBTF for 1995-12-02: Security/privacy
breach -- fixed
- Someday your style sheets will come
- Attention IPO jockeys
- Essential Tools
BrowserWatch
HTML syntax validators
- Followup: Netback -- introducing Surety
TBTF for 1995-11-29: Dissing Java;
Netscape 2.0b3; savvy search
- Net notary and Net backup (Netback)
- A lawsuit for spam (ReplyNet sues Promo Enterprises)
- Followup: Vermeer Technologies
TBTF for 1995-11-26: Internet
advertising straws in the wind; four followups
- Newspapers reject advertising that points readers to the Net
- Virgin Atlantic Airways fined for misleading Internet ad
- Followup: Costs of web presence
- Followup: Java adoption
- Followup: Cross-platform color woes (monitor gamma)
- Followup: ClickShare
TBTF for 1995-11-19: Win95's barn
door; death of a gateway; costs of Web presence
- Another Windows 95 security hole
- Public news gateway folds after a decade
- Costs of Web presence
- 2nd thoughts from Internet World (FrontPage, Excite)
TBTF for 1995-11-08: Java and
UltraSPARC; plundering the Hermitage
- From Sun's Ultracomputing event
- Bill Gates licenses Hermitage collection
TBTF for 1995-11-03: Blackbird flying
in the dead of Net
- Mondex sued for false anonymity claim
- Rodney Dangerfield's page violated
- Privacy straws in the wind: Equifax / Louis Harris survey; Nick Szabo
"Privacy Marketing"
- Zima's enticement to webmasters
TBTF for 1995-10-30: eCash gets real;
cross-platform color snafus
- Mark Twain Bank exchanges e$ for $
- Cross-platform color snafus: palette and gamut
- update on Brooks Talley's Satire Online
TBTF for 1995-10-24: Postcards from
Netscape 2.0 beta; privacy bellwethers
TBTF for 1995-10-18: Open Market's
security pages; Spam and friends
- Open Market's security pages
- The Spam blacklist
- Update on Siliconia
TBTF for 1995-10-15: Gambling online;
Siliconia
- Onling gambling
- Win Treese's Internet Index
- Siliconia
TBTF for 1995-10-09: Clickshare; what
interactive TV is coming to
- NewsShare's ClickShare proposal
- Interactive TV winds down
TBTF for 1995-10-03: The Internet is
full; one-time pad encryption
- Net traffic alarmism
- Elementrix claims one-time pad encryption
- Yahoo to add Open Text search engine
TBTF for 1995-10-01: Web-site
registration and privacy
- Web-site registration and privacy; I/CODE
- Adobe buys Ceneca
TBTF for 1995-09-27: Nutscape cracked
again
- Another Netscape security hole
- The Hack Netscape! tee-shirt contest
- An emendation re: CyberDev
- The hijacker hijacked
- The Netmark 1000 NT Web server
- The growth of software patents
TBTF for 1995-09-24: List hijacking;
software patents at Bleak House
- List hijacking
- The Cylink-RSA patent fight
TBTF for 1995-09-20: The men who broke
the bank at Netscape
- Two UC Berkeley students break Netscape for real
TBTF for 1995-09-14: InterNIC'ed; the
Spam-to-noise ratio
- NSI to begin charging for domain-name registration
- Trademark Research Corp. services for the above
- Anti-spamming features of list servers
- The spam-to-noise ratio at Impatiens Press
TBTF for 1995-09-10: What did the
server know and when did it know it?
- The Nielson / I-Pro alliance, and the limits on what it can measure
- Presidential task force on electronic media copyright
TBTF for 1995-09-03: Political Satire,
Internet Style
- Brooks Talley's Satire Online
- InterNIC name trademark disputes
- The Internet Millionaires' List
TBTF for 1995-08-30: Software patent
claimed for selling online
- Interactive Gift Express Iwields the Freeny patent
- Microsoft Network mail enclosure Trojan horse
- The Windows 95 madness
TBTF for 1995-08-25: Eolas claims basic
patent on Web applets
- HTML translators yielding to native tools
TBTF for 1995-08-22: Some nations fear
Net openness
- Saudi Arabia, & Stewart Baker quote
- NeXT Web Objects
- Voice recognition technology strains voices
- DEC introduces DragonDictate, continuous speech recognition
TBTF for 1995-08-21: Local tax losses,
SSL cracked, and Scientology rampant
- Nathan Newman
- Damien Doligez breaks Netscape 40-bit code
- Scientology battle on the Internet
- Rosalind Resnick's Cyberbiz
TBTF for 1995-08-13: Musings on
Netscape enhancements
- Microsoft MSN proprietary speculation
- Engst TISK/3 on the Web
TBTF for 1995-08-08: 3 takes on
net.censorship; neurosilicon
- Guardian Angels to partol the net
- SafeSurf Internet Rating Standard
- Cox/Wyden amendmendment to House telecomm bill
TBTF for 1995-07-30: 6 Mbps to your door
- AT&T Paradyne's GlobeSpan "CAP" techn. for ADSL
- InterNIC requires proof of right to trademark
- Sprint, MCI. BBN wiring campuses
- Doremus & Co. deal info on the Web
- Oracle deal w/Spyglass, Informix w/Spider
TBTF for 1995-07-25: Privacy on MSN;
Apple's innovating again
- Forrester report: Internet access business -> $4B
- MSN privacy strategy
- Apple / Cyprus "MegaPhone" telephony deal
- Don Norman for Apple VP/AT
- Windows 95 links
TBTF for 1995-07-23: HotJava,
archiving, and community standards
- James Gosling, Java, and NeWS
- 5000-year archival storage
- Community standards not definable in cyberspace
TBTF for 1995-07-10: Cybersickness and
BevHills 90210
- Web spending up but browsing still dominates
- MCI, ANS CO+RE Systems, Sprint interconnect networks
- Bev Hills internet homesteading
TBTF for 1995-07-07: A cyberlibrary and
net.censorship
- UMich Internet Public Library
- Hoffman critisizes Rimmer CMU cyberporn study
- Voluntary content rating field
- Cox/Wyden bill filed
- SafeSurf alliance: mark kid-friendly pages
TBTF for 1995-06-30: Advertising and
branding on the Web
TBTF for 1995-06-25: Keeping Web
numbers honest
- MIT Press "City of Bits"
- Post Office and Premenos team on encryption
TBTF for 1995-06-20: GIF89a
replacement; Nehru jackets
- Microsoft, Netscape, RealAudio team: parental control
- No OS/2 for first IBM PowerPCs
TBTF for 1995-06-16: Outsourcing
Internet access; consolidating suppliers
- Colleges consider outsourcing internet connections
- Internet access: one-stop shopping? PSI buys Intercon, Software Ventures
- Top 10 anagrams for "Information Superhighway"
TBTF for 1995-06-09: Followup on two
rumored Trojan horses
- PKZIP 3.0 is bogus
- Win95 Registration Wizard
TBTF for 1995-06-07: Beware pkzip 3.00;
an extremely illegal T shirt
TBTF for 1995-06-03: Global positioning
and hypertext pasta
TBTF for 1995-05-30: Wavelet
compression and 3D fax
TBTF for 1995-05-24: HotJava security;
natural gas networks
- Java alert -- virus potential
- Electronic meter readers
- National energy utility, Utilicorp United Inc.
- First totally electronic bank -- Security First Network Bank,
Pineville, KY
TBTF for 1995-05-23: HotJava,
Sunscreen, and a registration virus
TBTF for 1995-05-22: Nautilus
defeats wiretaps
TBTF for 1995-05-18: Motorola holds
the key; SurfWatch's up
TBTF for 1995-05-17: Apple's Cyberdog
TBTF for 1995-05-12: Cybercash can
export strong crypto; publishing anywhere
TBTF for 1995-05-09: Software as
bestseller; laser displays
TBTF for 1995-05-08: Blocking caller
ID; new Internet Index
TBTF for 1995-05-04: Privacy fallout
from a bombing; HP does it right
TBTF for 1995-05-02: Buying software
from the Net; Lojack for computers
TBTF for 1995-04-29: Web business
models; online gambling and absolution
TBTF for 1995-04-23: Watching for
Web outages; naming heavenly bodies
TBTF for 1995-04-22: Rising paper
costs; counterattacking SATAN
TBTF for 1995-04-17: Internet
security standard; Web payment systems
TBTF for 1995-04-13: Coat-trailing the
cyberspooks
TBTF for 1995-04-11: Tracking Web
hits; contra telecommuting
TBTF for 1995-04-07: Where
advertising will go; spam artists spout off
TBTF for 1995-04-04: An ISDN "modem";
where flaming leads
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