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E-Mail, Net Abuse Tops List of 'Sackable' Offenses - News.Yahoo.com
September 2, 2002, 11:07 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - E-mail and Internet abuse, including the downloading of pornography, has overtaken theft of office supplies and lying to the boss as the top disciplinary action reported in the work place, a new study said.
File-swapping foes exert P2P pressure - News.com
August 13, 2002, 6:48 AM PT
Until now, the entertainment industry has relied on civil lawsuits aimed at companies, not individuals, to limit widespread copyright infringement on peer-to-peer networks.
Microsoft settles Passport privacy case - CNN.com
August 8, 2002
Microsoft to tighten security on personal data
Addressing the cause, not symptoms - News.com
June 24, 2002, 4:00 a.m. PT
When you finally figure out the problem, you discover that someone has been tracking every keystroke on your keyboard for days while using your PC's resources to maintain a network that researches extraterrestrial life.
House Targets Cybercriminals - Wired.com
July 16, 2002
The legislation also states that immediate threats to national security should be included among emergency instances when law enforcement can tap into computer communications. It passed...
Hollywood Seeks The Right To Hack - Intelligentx.com
Copyright enforcers are eyeing peer-to-peer networks, writes Nathan Cochrane.
Yale accuses Princeton of hacking - CNN.com
July 25, 2002 Posted: 8:05 PM EDT (0005 GMT)
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) -- Yale University complained to the FBI on Thursday that admissions officials at Princeton hacked into a Yale Web site that was set up for prospective students.
Privacy advocates urge use of states' common laws - CNN.com
Report: Lawsuits have held marketers in check
July 23, 2002 Posted: 3:01 PM EDT (1901 GMT)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- With consumer-privacy efforts stalled in Congress, one expert is arguing that those who fear that intimate details of their private lives could be exposed already have plenty of protection through existing common law.
Hacking in the name of security - CNN.com
'A little odd sometimes, but very, very smart'
July 20, 2002 Posted: 8:45 AM EDT (1245 GMT)
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Barry "The Key" Wels picks locks for the sport of it, but also to make a broader point.
Fear and Lockdown in America - Wired.com
July 25, 2002
The BSA's results came days after House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Billy Tauzin (R-Louisiana) said the Homeland Security Bill (PDF), which will be voted on Thursday, will create a cybersecurity undersecretary in charge of monitoring security...
A New Code for Anonymous Web Use - Wired.com
July 12, 2002
The political hacking group known as Hacktivismo is about to unveil a peer-to-peer system that will shield online identities and permit secure, anonymous internet use. Noah Shachtman reports from New...
House OKs life sentences for hackers - News.com
July 15, 2002, 6:00 PM PT
The House of Representatives on Monday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would allow for life prison sentences for malicious computer hackers.

PRIVACY ORGANIZATIONS

Electronic Frontier Foundation - EFF.org
Electronic Privacy Information Center - Epic.org
Digital Freedom Network - DFN.org
The Privacy Coalition - PrivacyPledge.org