Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   When Information's Free, Theft's Easy, Costly - Grabbing someone else's content is one of the easiest scams on the Net. Big companies with deep pockets can defend themselves against pirates, but little guys are often out of luck. [Wired News]   Where Do They Go When They Quit the Dole? - President Clinton and aides celebrated a big drop in the national welfare caseload. For now, though, no one can say what's become of the former recipients. [Wired News]   White House Releases Paper on Info Privacy - The Office of Management and Budget study ignores encryption and hews to the view of the Net as a den of menace. But a critic concedes the study gives a thorough overview of current legal and regulatory chaos. [Wired News]   White House Reviewing Sun Crypto Deal - The administration says it wants to make sure Sun Microsystems, which intends to market strong Russian-developed software, is complying with export controls on encryption products. Meanwhile, Sybase says it has won a crypto export waiver. [Wired News]   White House Unveils E-Commerce Policy - After 15 months of study, the administration puts out its vision of what government needs to do to ensure the robust development of the worldwide electronic marketplace. [Wired News]   White House Will Propose Own Crypto Bill - Facing a series of liberal encryption proposals in Congress, the Clinton administration decides to write its own legislation. [Wired News]   White House Wins Crypto Vote - A new bill that writes into law much of the Clinton administration's oft-criticized encryption policy passes a key committee test. [Wired News]   White House Wrangling over Crypto - In one corner, Louis Freeh, who appears to be carrying the ball for an aggressive new Clinton administration effort to clamp down on encryption. In the not-exactly-opposite corner, William Reinsch, who argues that crackdown proposals go too far. [Wired News]   Who Needs Crypto? Paging Bill Clinton ... - The Clinton administration, in the midst of a fight to limit the availability of strong encryption, has come face-to-face with an embarrassing example of what can happen when its own communications go unprotected. [Wired News]   Who Says Air Force Jet Is 'Lost?' - A pilot familiar with the terrain in which an Air Force attack jet vanished earlier this month takes a sober look at the circumstances. Plus, NORAD on alert. [Wired News]   Who's Solving Spam Problem? Not Nevada - Lawmakers are now trying to stamp out spam. Results are minimal. [Wired News]   Will Roulette Wheel Land on 'Ban' or 'Tax'? - That age-old quandary has resurfaced, this time in connection with that combination of vice and multimedia: Internet gambling. [Wired News]   Will Wiring Wards Help Hospitalized Kids? - President Clinton calls for Net access for children's hospitals, but what the future holds for many sick kids is telemedicine. [Wired News]   Without Incentive, It's Just Hot Air - Getting people to embrace alternative energy sources and devices is the biggest challenge in the effort to slow global warming, a conference of scientists and policy-makers says. [Wired News]   Word's Out: Time to Change Domain-Name System - The hundreds of comments submitted to the Commerce Department are sometimes boringly practical and sometimes wacky, but the consensus from netizens and Net commerce is that the system must change. [Wired News]   World Telecom Deal Awaits Last-Hour Action - While Canada, Mexico, and Japan fear market domination by the United States and Europe, US negotiators believe the US is giving away as much as it is getting. [Wired News]   Would You Buy a Computer from This Industry? - Jon Katz goes under cover and finds the computer industry's Achilles' heel. [Wired News]   Writers Sue LA over Tax Ordinance - Hollywood's main writer's union goes to court to stop enforcement of a law it says forces unconstitutional regulation of writers - and opens the door to a train of other abuses. [Wired News]   You're Not the Boss of Me! - The Net's neolibertarianism is just self-serving, immature hypocrisy. [Wired News]   You've Got Mail - from the Judge - Tradition-bound Western courts recognize a changing world and begin issuing orders over the Internet. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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