30. April, 2002 - online life

• I'm posting pictures from my trip to California for WWDC 1998 lately. It's partly because I haven't taken a lot of pictures recently (my knee's getting better, but I'm not walking around a lot yet), and partly because I won't be out at WWDC this year for the first time since 1993 (I think). It's kind of sad, but between being busy on a project and the lack of change from Apple, I just can't see spending the thousands of dollars it costs.
• CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.. Does this mean there will be twice as many spams coming from insecure Chinese mailservers telling me how to get a bigger penis? [strib]
• Online Ads Become Active and Intrusive, demanding your attention before you can move on to see the content. And guess what, this news story pops up an ad. [fark!]
• TIME.com: The Browser That Roared. Time reviews Mozilla. Sadly, I can't get it to work reliably for me, since it has problems loading complete pages. [evhead]
• Kevin Werbach tells of how networking policy makers were shocked to discover that 1.5 million WiFi cards are flying off the store shelves every month. [boing boing]
• Renewals Plunge a 'Veri' Bad Sign - yeah, Verisign's renewals are down, and so are those of a lot of registrars. But Verisign's service blows goats, and it's only right that they get hit the hardest. [boing boing]
• Dan Gillmor: Want privacy? Take action. Dan's take on the recent CFP conference. [cam]
• IP: Bruce Sterling closing CFP Speech
• The Right to Remain Silent covers the case of Vanessa Leggett, who was jailed last year for refusing to turn over the notes she'd made for her book about the murder of a Houston socialite. [instapundit]
• Hotmail at Risk to Cookie Thieves. If you've got a hotmail account, someone else can get at your computer, and you've ever clicked the "keep me signed in" option, they can probably read your mail. Changing your password won't help. Never clicking the "keep me signed in" and always clicking the "sign out" when you're done reading mail are probably the best you can do. [daypop]
• Hill Back to Biz of Biz Privacy as Hollings tries to pass another bad law. Why is it bad? Because it's a Law to Protect Spyware. Perhaps you don't care if the credit card company knows what ills you suffer from, or if Amazon has twigged to the kinks you practice in the bedroom. Yeah, it's been A Bad Year for Privacy. [daypop]

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