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Search results for "Internet access" ...
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Hate Club
Time investigates the terrorist "world-wide web" Al-Qaeda, whose leader is believed to be Osama bin Laden. The story package reveals background details for most of the organization's leaders. The special report tells how al-Qaeda has been sprawling all over the world in the last two decades. Some major findings are that terrorists might have been using publicly accessible websites to hide their instructions, and that the organization might have presence in Bosnia, plotting to attack Nato military facilities there.
Tags: Afghanistan; September 11; World Trade Center; Osama bin Laden; Islam; Muslims; jihad; Ayman Al-Zawahiri; Internet; religion; violence
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Losing Signal
"..the advent of the information economy has turned the FCC from a minor D.C. player into one of the government's most powerful agencies. As the de facto czar of the nation's communications infrastructure, the commission now makes daily decisions affecting America's technological destiny-reviewing megamergers like AOL Time Warner union, evaluating the Baby Bells' expansion plans, determining whether cable companies should decide what Web content their Internet customers can view. And no one appreciates the FCC's newfound authority better than the communications industry, whose lobbying expenses now stand at roughly $125 million, more than twice the amount spent by defense firms."
Tags: FCC; lobbying; telecommunications; "Big Media; " broadband; Internet; cable; telephone; radio; broadcast licenses; deregulation; digital transition; telcos; CFIC; Dingell; Tauzin; McCain; Lott; open access; First Amendment; location-based services (LBS); privacy; Digital Democracy; National Association of Broadcasters; NAB; analog spectrum; consolidation; government auction
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The Big Telecom Disconnect
The Wall Street Journal investigates the reasons for the rising prices of telephone and cable services. The story packet finds that five years after the Telecommunications Reform Act was passed in 1996, "business customers have been the only beneficiaries." Among the main findings is that "the Baby bells and the cable-TV operators have the country pretty much to themselves, enjoying lucrative monopolies in most areas."
Tags: technology; Federal Communication Commission; SBC Communications; AT&T Corp.; AOL Time Warner; Verizon communications; Winstar Communications; competition; wireless; long-distance; Internet access
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On-Line Filters
A WFXT-TV investigation of on-line filters designed to block children's access to certain inappropriate websites reveals that they don't work as well as they're advertised. "As it turns out, filters aren't all that effective and the software companies don't advertise that fact. So parents may not be paying attention to where their kids surf on the web, thinking that filters are keeping them out of adult web sites."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT filters; on-line; websites; internet; computers; pornography
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Scam of the Ages
More and more senior citizens are logging on to the Internet these days, and that's good news for scam artists. This Yahoo! Internet Life article reports on how seniors are being snookered out of their money and what happens afterward.
Tags: Scams; senior citizens; AARP; Internet access
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The Surveillance Society
Minnesota Public Radio reporters looked at situations where people were unwittingly trading their privacy for increased network and Internet access resulting in problems such as increased monitoring of employees, easy access to medical records & identity theft. Reporters found outdated laws and little enforcement of current laws.
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Frank Sinatra FBI files
APB Online posted the Frank Sinatra FBI files online within hours after their release, allowing immediate access to those who might have had to wait months to get copies of the files.
Tags: FOIA Government Internet
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Cyberporn
The Sun uncovers a county commissioner's practice of routinely accessing pornographic sites on the Internet during working hours by using the computer, paid for by taxpayers, in his office in the county courthouse. Stories also examine an attempt to cover up the activity by destroying records. (Sept. 25 - Oct. 2, 1996)
Tags: Walker CAR Cyberporn Contest entry Computer Electronic and telephone records 14 pgs.
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No title (id: 13518)
Insight magazine investigates the technological leaps of the last decade and how they have spawned anxiety over security and personal confidentiality. With so much use of the Internet, E-Mail and fax machines, people fear that others will get hold of their personal or financial information. Consumers also see the use of mailing lists by marketers as a violation of their privacy. (Aug. 19, 1996)
Tags: Rust Crabtree Access; privacy and power Computers Rights Secrecy Informational warfare Cyber terrorism Classified 4 pgs.
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No title (id: 9513)
Utne Reader looks at the cyberpunk subculture by focusing on two twentysomething men who have no qualms about illegally accessing information, or damaging, destroying, or capitalizing on the data they find; the two men dream of wreaking havoc with every computer system that serves society; finds that many cyberpunks are young adults with great intellegence but feel hopeless about their future, and find self-empowerment from cyber-vandalism and hooliganism, July/August 1993. # Caniglia cyberspace William Gibson Neuromancer internet Electronic Frontier Foundation City Pages Minneapolis
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