Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Prisoners Await Y2K Day - The prison system relies on databases and embedded computer chips to help keep the people on the inside where they belong. Will technology be able to do its job when the millennium arrives? By Spencer E. Ante. [Wired News]   Release the Y2K Ratings! - Federal regulators say banks can't make their Year 2000 readiness ratings public. Banks and others say that secrecy is fanning consumer fears. By Spencer E. Ante. [Wired News]   Rogue Hackers Gallery - Kevin Mitnick isn't the only high-profile bit bandit nabbed by the feds. As the FBI steps up its computer crimes investigations, Wired News profiles some memorable cases. By Daryl Lindsey. [Wired News]   Rules, Britannia - England and Ireland, which have certainly had their differences in the past, are approaching the issue of cryptography in radically different ways. By Wendy Grossman. [Wired News]   Sailor Settles Privacy Case - The settlement of a controversial case involving America Online, the Navy, gay rights, and an officer doesn't alleviate concerns over online privacy issues. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Salon Dismisses 'Smear' Charge - The editor of the Internet magazine denies allegations by leading Republicans that a scoop run this week was part of a conspiracy to defuse the Starr report. By Arik Hesseldahl. [Wired News]   School Dazed by Speech Ruling - A judge says that a student has the right to rip his high school -- no matter how inarticulately or inanely -- without fear of reprisal. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]   Schools and Software Piracy - In Berkeley, California, and other districts around the United States, teachers and staff are being forced into the role of intellectual cops in order to make sure software licenses are respected. [Wired News]   Selling America on Crypto - Ed Gillespie, executive director of the Americans for Computer Privacy, explains how to make encryption and key recovery more prominent issues in Americans' minds. [Wired News]   Senate Embraces Spam Bill - Much to the dismay of anti-spam crusaders, the Senate hearing on a controversial measure to control bulk email turns into a love-fest. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]   Sex Sites and Self-Regulation - Civil rights lawyers and pornographers discuss freedom, censorship, and the threat of government crackdowns on Internet erotica. By Ed Murrieta. [Wired News]   Should Canada Regulate Net? - Canadian politicians have long wrangled over how, and when, to take control of the Internet. Now, the agency that keeps television and radio stocked with Canadian content might seek to do the same online. By Arik Hesseldahl. [Wired News]   Slamming the Gate - Bill Gates might -- might -- eventually face criminal charges, but not until the civil trial snakes its way to a close. By Declan Mcullagh. [Wired News]   Small Banks Hunker Down for Y2K - A state bank commissioner tells the House Banking Committee that he felt "particular concern" that small banks might not be ready for the millennium bug. By Spencer E. Ante. [Wired News]   So, Who's Getting Screwed Here? - The wily impresario who staged the recent online virgin hoax believes he is the injured party and is suing his former business partner to prove it. By Heidi Kriz. [Wired News]   Spam Bill Gets Mixed Reviews - The Senate, in trying to outlaw the practice of phone company "slamming," passes an amendment that makes it illegal to falsify information about the origin of junk email. But anti-spam activists call the bill a step backward. [Wired News]   Spam King Forges Unholy Alliance - After renouncing his spamming ways last month, Sanford Wallace has decided to testify against spammers as an expert witness/consultant for an Atlanta-based law firm. [Wired News]   Spam King Loses Junk-Fax Suit - After renouncing his junk email business last week, Sanford Wallace was found liable on Friday for violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 by sending unsolicited junk telephone faxes. The decision may squelch his plans for a revamped business. [Wired News]   Spam Law Bares Teeth - In what may be the first successful settlement under Washington state's new anti-spam law, a junk emailer was forced to pay a Seattle man today. By Ed Murietta. [Wired News]   Spam Treaty Aims to Keep the Peace - Sanford Wallace, the infamous head of Cyber Promotions, has signed on to a "peace treaty" promising he will change his business model and support federal legislation that would outlaw spam. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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