July 1998

• If you use Communicator or Outlook Express on Windows, E-mail systems open to attack tells of a security flaw that allows an email to wipe your hard drive.
• E-mail monitoring vs. Privacy
• CNN: The strong arm of the NSA. Are they leaning on WAM!NET yet? Are we prepared for when they do?
• Dan Gillmor: How to make encryption work for you.
• Interested in which candidates your neighbors are giving money to? Political Contributions by Zip Code will tell you.
• Man gets $3.35 million for web address.
• Jakob Nielsen: Electronic Books are a bad idea.

Weather in Minneapolis for July 31, 1998     July 31 in History

• American Memory by the Library Of Congress has lots o' things to read.
• An Atlas of Cyberspaces aims to provide visual representations of the Internet. Where's the WAM!NET map?
• Politics season is already upon us. Jesse Ventura For Governor.
• The Babylon Park Homepage.
• Don't let technology trample privacy.
• Limits near on shareholder fraud suits.

Weather in Minneapolis for July 24, 1998     July 24 in History

• If you use a cell phone, the FBI wants to know where you are.
• Cyprto alert: DES-56 cracked with $250k worth of hardware.
• Semiconductor technology in jeopardy. 300mm wafers might be delayed by the downturn in the chip biz.
• Europeans lead the way in privacy guards.
• Guns save lives.

Weather in Minneapolis for July 17, 1998     July 17 in History

• Buzzword Bingo - play at meetings.
• QuizSite - Trivia on the web.
• The soft white underbelly of the net, eviscerated for all to see
• Dan Gillmor: Valley gets a dose of its reality.
• David Plotnikoff: Net-usage snapshot is full of details.
• The Animated ASL Dictionary: useful!

Weather in Minneapolis for July 10, 1998     July 10 in History

• Get yer physics here.
• Mind your P's and Q's in business.
• First eMail check sent from the Treasury Department to GTE. Say goodbye to the float.
• Microsoft doesn't own Internet Explorer.
• Conversational Terrorism.
• "What's makes NASCAR so hot?"
• Dan Gillmor compares Rockefeller & Gates.

Weather in Minneapolis for July 2, 1998     July 2 in History