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32 Fighting the (pretty) good fight
The author of PGP
-- Pretty Good Privacy for Internet e-mail --
faced down federal indictment in order to keep the package available.
40 Bigfoot!
Chronicles of the great newsgroup raids, and a talk with the Supreme
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48 The geopolitics of cyberspace
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. 54 Myths of the Internet
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.
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56 Route 666: transgressing the information superhighway
"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 60 Adventures in shirtspace
It isn't Net folklore until it ends up on a T-shirt. But when
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66 In politics, the network is the machine
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. 72 Tre's first gig
It's 2049, and limpware engineering and uvvies are the cutting edge.
Then Tre Dietz hacked the Perplexing Poultry philtre. ...
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10 mcb@postmodern.com
A guided tour of INFOBAHN by our editor, 13 cruising the infobahnTinySex ... Unauthorized Access ... skinheads ... the Internet as igloo ... INFOBAHN's no parking zone ... Cyberia ... worlds in progress 79 reviews |
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88 flame of the month
Write a (network) program, get a license. By
8 masthead72.5 colophon, advertisers index, & subscription cards
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