The author of PGP -- Pretty Good Privacy for Internet e-mail -- faced down federal indictment in order to keep the package available. Jeff Elliott asks him whether encryption will bring order or chaos.
Chronicles of the great newsgroup raids, and a talk with the Supreme Commander. By Hal Hill
Does the freedom of the Net encourage or defend against social manipulation? The Internet's future as society's primary marketplace of information raises the stakes. Blake Harris investigates how the relationships between space and power affect the virtual territory of cyberspace.
Sometimes a little knowledge is a dangerous thing: recent critics of Internet culture have developed some odd ideas about the way things are, and the way they ought to be. By Michael C. Berch
"Instead of dreaming West, we are nudged to dream out into yet another final frontier, Cyberspace. Like the American dream, the playing field is supposed to be equalized there. ... The democratization of information. Free and equal access for everyone. A new, user-friendly utopia." By Putch Tu
It isn't Net folklore until it ends up on a T-shirt. But when Joel Furr took on the "Green Card Lawyers," the going got weird very quickly.
E-mail organizing may have provided a crucial edge for the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign. By 1996, you can expect a mailbox full of political campaign material as America's political strategists discover the Internet. Crawford Kilian investigates online campaign rhetoric.
It's 2049, and limpware engineering and uvvies are the cutting edge. Then Tre Dietz hacked the Perplexing Poultry philtre. ... Fiction by Rudy Rucker
A guided tour of INFOBAHN by our editor, Michael C. Berch
TinySex ... Unauthorized Access ... skinheads ... the Internet as igloo ... INFOBAHN's no parking zone ... Cyberia ... worlds in progress
Write a (network) program, get a license. By Lynn Van Sant
Putch Tu photographed by David C. MacKenzie.
David C. MacKenzie has spent a 25-year career exploring cultural
assumptions about vision, perception, and image-making. He
co-developed the photography and design program at the
University of Texas at Austin. MacKenzie is a native of Toronto.
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