{"id":1099,"date":"2001-07-02T16:55:54","date_gmt":"2001-07-02T16:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2001\/07\/02\/a-quick-look-at-some-of-the-things-i-read\/"},"modified":"2001-07-02T16:55:54","modified_gmt":"2001-07-02T16:55:54","slug":"a-quick-look-at-some-of-the-things-i-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2001\/07\/02\/a-quick-look-at-some-of-the-things-i-read\/","title":{"rendered":"a quick look at – some of the things I read"},"content":{"rendered":"

a quick look at<\/b><\/u> – some of the things I read<\/p>\n

Keeping on top of the net industry is a full time gig. I read a lot of news
\n every day. With Web\/Lint down (for now) I thought I would put some of it here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
><\/td>\n
\n He thrives on failure<\/a> – the story of a high-tech ‘repo man’ and what
\n he does to and for failing dotcom’s.<\/p>\n
\n

"Zoho, a Web site that serves hotels, is barely alive. Pichinson
\n has arrived to grab and sell its assets on behalf of creditors. Coffee
\n cup in hand, he marches from room to room with three haggard Zoho employees
\n in tow. They inspect computers, golf clubs and electric dart boards
\n the debris left after 240 layoffs." – full
\n text <\/a>\n <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

><\/td>\n
\n Running a high privacy web service<\/a> – Cotse<\/a>
\n is a good place to try and lay low. See what it is like to deal with privacy
\n issues in the Internet age.<\/p>\n
\n

"I deal with the FBI almost weekly. I am under two federal gag
\n orders and expecting a third. I obviously cannot speak about any details
\n and only mention this because it was mentioned prior to receiving the
\n order. They have visited my humble abode in the god awful hours of the
\n morning and I’m fairly certain that they have me on speed dial. The
\n last call was at least to tell me they’d be visiting again. Nice guys,
\n actually. They’ve been very pleasant every time we’ve spoken or met.
\n But all the same, I’d rather not have to go through it at all."
\n – full
\n text <\/a>\n <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

><\/td>\nSPAM Wars:<\/b> Blackmail
\n and censorship – This is more than one article, and well worth a entry of
\n it’s own some day, but I will give you a  little context for what’s
\n happening. You probably don’t like spam. Not many of us do. I don’t like
\n it much either. In the ‘real world’ junk mail is a fact of life.<\/p>\n

On the Internet, we have a leftover set of people from the 60’s and 70’s
\n who are technically adept but socially stunted and confused. They have
\n no real respect for much of anything other than their own convenience
\n and freedoms be damned. These people will be happy to try and blackmail
\n you to get what they want – using the law as it suits them and ignoring
\n it when it doesn’t.<\/p>\n

So, how would you like it if your email was shut down by your ISP because
\n they<\/i> had been threatened with shutdown by a few people in another
\n country who are upset by what someone else<\/i> on your ISP had to say?<\/p>\n

This happens every day. Organizations have arisen that keep private ‘blacklists’
\n of ISP’s. Many ISP’s subscribe to and enforce these blacklists. Why? Because
\n if they don’t then they get blacklisted themselves<\/i>! <\/p>\n

\n

"The current list of anti-spam restrictions is not written down
\n anywhere that I could find; you only find out when a blacklist notice
\n appears in your inbox, telling you that you are going to be thrown off
\n the Internet unless you immediately change. Next week they could demand
\n that any ISP which is also a phone company must cut off phone service
\n to alleged spammers; the following month demand that every ISP turn
\n over credit card and\/or customer address information on demand. (Some
\n people claim that their "fee" for reading a spam is $50 or
\n $500; I’m sure they would like to immediately charge somebody’s credit
\n card for it, and let the details and legalities sort themselves out
\n later)." –
\n full text<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The theory is that it is OK to shut down the email and websites of millions
\n of people to make sure that some long haired 60’s communist wannabe doesn’t
\n have to hit the delete key when he checks for email from his friends telling
\n him how much they all mate Microsoft.<\/p>\n

 Fortunately, some people are fighting back. The guy who founded
\n the EFF<\/a>, for instance.
\n You can read
\n his story<\/a> of censorship
\n here<\/a>, and he does an OK job of explaining why this is all a bad thing.
\n Other stories are here<\/a>,
\n and
\n here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Anyway, ORBS is one of the first of these online terrorists, and it just
\n
\n shut down<\/a> because it turns out it’s something people can sue you for
\n when you shut down the internet access of someone else because they annoy
\n you. There is some S<\/a>lashdot
\n discussion<\/a> of all this. <\/p>\n

Personally I find the message on their website<\/a>
\n so deliciously appropriate I am giggling.<\/p>\n

\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

><\/td>\n
\n They are watching for you<\/a>. If you didn’t know, here is the news for
\n you. At the
\n Superbowl<\/a> there were
\n video camera’s<\/a> and computers watching everyone who entered the stadium,
\n comparing their faces with those the police had selected and bringing possible
\n matches to the attention of the agents on site.<\/p>\n

In other words,
\n
\n big brother knew<\/a> if you went to the Superbowl. This was bad.<\/p>\n

Well, now in Tampa they are putting the same system to work
\n
\n on the streets<\/a>. They will be able to watch and identify<\/i><\/b>
\n anyone who passes one of those cameras. For now, they are just looking for
\n criminals – but how long till they are just plain tracking anyone and
\n everyone?<\/p>\n

Between this, and EZPass<\/a>
\n – not to mention the tracking abilities built into OnStar and so on you
\n are screwed if they want to find you. Some Slashdot discussion is
\n here<\/a>.\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Ah well. That’s all for now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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