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Ubiquity of the Internet Poses Significant Security Issues

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Zittrain, Jonathan, The Generative Internet. Harvard Law Review, 2006.

  • Abstract: “The power and flexibility of the Internet has ignited growth and innovation in information technology and in associated creative endeavors, its generativity soliciting contribution from varied audiences. This very power and flexibility projected across millions of mainstream users has also become a vehicle for security threats that endanger its many desired uses. This Article describes how the intertwining of the highly generative personal computer and Internet is creating an information technology grid that will find itself in grave crisis with no easy fix.”

    • Cost ot Date of Iraq War May Top $500 Billion

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    The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After the Beginning of the Conflict, By Linda Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz Working Paper Number: RWP06-002 (37 pages, PDF). Submitted: 01/11/2006. “”We have not attempted in this paper an overall assessment of whether the war was conducted in the most cost efficient manner,… Continue Reading

    ALA Announces Intention to File Patriot Act FOIA Request

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    American Libraries Online, January 13, 2006: “The American Library Association’s Executive Board intends to file a Freedom of Information Act request with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine if the FBI has been collecting information on the Association and its leaders as a result of their opposition to certain provisions of the USA Patriot… Continue Reading