Saturday, Dec. 3 —
The news gets worse and worse. Your e-mail address (and a lot more) will soon be an open book (Mercury News story) to sleazy online marketers, according to security expert Richard Smith. Here’s his analysis.
We owe yet more thanks to Smith. Thumbs down, meanwhile, to the continuing carelessness of programmers at Netscape and Microsoft.
Australia Despotism
Saturday, Dec. 3 —
The authorities in Australia, not content with passing one of the world’s most repressive Internet-content laws, have gone much further. Now they’ve given themselves the “right” to modify files on citizens’ personal computers, according to Wired News.
If Australia wants to make itself a pariah state in the Internet age — a place bereft of fundamental liberties, and therefore utterly unattractive to the kinds of people who will build the 21st Century economy — it’s off to a great start.
Marketing Attack, Part 6,774
Saturday, Dec. 3 —
If you use AT&T long distance service, here’s another reason to change providers.