FIT 100, AUTUMN 2002

Fluency With Information Technology


Article Readings:

Readings for October 9th:

No URL Left Behind?  Web Scrub Raises Concerns
Education Week 09/19/2002
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm

The Information Wars
The Atlantic September 2002
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/graham.htm

Patients relying more on Net
Seattle Post Intelligencer 05/23/2002
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/71598_nethealth23.shtml 

Oh, what a tangled Web: Writer deceives magazine
Seattle Times 03/10/02
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Bin Laden’s Felt Skinned Henchman
Fox News 10/14/2002
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,36218,00.html 

A Beautiful Life, an Early Death, a Fraud Exposed
NY Times 05/31/2001
http://query.nytimes.com/search/abstract?res=FA0616FD3B580C728FDDAC0894D9404482
 
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20010531thursday.html 

 

Readings for December 2nd:

Losing the Code War
The Atlantic 2/2002
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/02/budiansky.htm

Hacker Convention
NPR: All Things Considered 7/16/2002 
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020715.atc.19.ram
(Media player needed)

 

Readings for December 4th:

Defense Dept. backs tracking of personal data
Seattle PI 11/21/2002
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/96568_defense21.shtml

Personal data on government forms travels far and wide, study finds
AP Wires / Dodge City Globe  10/31/2002
http://www.dodgeglobe.com/stories/103102/nat_data.shtml

Schools gear up technology to promote safer campuses
Seattle Times 9/09/2002
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Web-based organizer keeps school parents up to date, in the know
Seattle Times 9/04/2002
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/

The future is gaining on us…. Be afraid
Seattle Times 7/14/2002
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

 

Readings for December 9th:

Justices to hear Internet Porn Case
Washington Post 11/13/2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45772-2002Nov12.html

ALA Information page on CIPA
http://www.ala.org/cipa/

 

Other News about Information Technology:

COMPUTERS

New devices plug the gap between floppy and CD
USA Today 9/9/2002
http://www.usatoday.com/

Biotechs' number-crunching demands have transformed supercomputer industry
Seattle Times 6/29/2001
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

IBM Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer to Simulate Nuclear Testing for U.S. Energy Department
http://www.llnl.gov/asci/news/white_news.html 

Latest speed tests for processors
http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/top500/top500.list.html 

COPYRIGHT

Center for the Public Domain
http://www.centerforthepublicdomain.org/copyright.htm 

Do Search Engines Expedite the Theft of Digital Images?
NY Times 9/6/2001
http://college4.nytimes.com/guests/articles/2001/09/06/866293.xml 

Freelancers Win in Case of Work Kept in Databases
NY Times 6/26/2001
http://www.sspnet.org/public/news/details.cfm?id=59 

CYBERSTALKING

1999 Report on CyberStalking: A New Challenge for Law Enforcement and Industry
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cyberstalking.htm 

DATABASES

Still pockets of poverty, new census data reveal Seattle Times 12/20/01
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Freelancers Win in Case of Work Kept in Databases
NY Times 6/26/2001
http://www.sspnet.org/public/news/details.cfm?id=59 

ENCRYPTION

Homeland Insecurity
The Atlantic 9/2002
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/mann.htm

Encrypted e-mail fails to crack big market
Seattle Times 4/22/2002
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Losing the Code War
The Atlantic February, 2002
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/02/budiansky.htm 

FILTERING

Justices to hear Internet Porn Case
Washington Post 11/13/2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45772-2002Nov12.html

HACKERS

Hacker Hall of Fame
http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/bio/bio.html 

Hacker Convention
NPR: All Things Considered 7/16/2002
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020715.atc.19.ram

HYPERTEXT

Bridging the Gulfs: From Hypertext to Cyberspace
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue2/bardini.html 

INTERNET FRAUD

Department of Justice: Internet Fraud
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/Internet.htm 

MISINFORMATION

No URL Left Behind?  Web Scrub Raises Concerns
Education Week 09/19/2002
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm

The Information Wars
The Atlantic September 2002
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/graham.htm

Patients relying more on Net
Seattle Post Intelligencer 5/23/2002
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/71598_nethealth23.shtml 

Crackdown launched on Web-based scams
Seattle Times 4/3/2002
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134430511_fraud03m.html

Slate pretender looks familiar
Seattle Times 03/13/02
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Oh, what a tangled Web: Writer deceives magazine
Seattle Times 03/10/02
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Bin Laden’s Felt Skinned Henchman
Fox News 10/14/2002
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,36218,00.html 

A Beautiful Life, an Early Death, a Fraud Exposed
NY Times 5/31/2001
http://query.nytimes.com/search/abstract?res=FA0616FD3B580C728FDDAC0894D9404482
 
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20010531thursday.html 

PRIVACY

Defense Dept. backs tracking of personal data
Seattle PI 11/21/2002
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/96568_defense21.shtml

Library Records Post-Patriot Act (Federal Law)
Law Library Resource Xchange, LLC  9/16/2002
http://www.llrx.com/features/libraryrecords.htm

Secrecy cloaks Patriot Act: Administration loath to spell out how law being used
Seattle Times 9/09/2002
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/

New law changes some legal rights of Americans
Seattle Times 9/09/2002
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Schools gear up technology to promote safer campuses
Seattle Times 9/09/2002
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Web-based organizer keeps school parents up to date, in the know
Seattle Times 9/04/2002
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Japanese irate over ID numbers
Seattle Times 8/13/2002
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Library Searches
National Public Radio (NPR) 8/10/2002
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020810.atc.02.ram (requires Real player)

The future is gaining on us…. Be afraid
Seattle Times 7/14/2002
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

How valuable is your privacy when it comes to terrorism?
Seattle Times 6/11/2002
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Police-privacy law challenged: Creator of personal-data Web site sues over 'censorship'
Seattle Times 5/22/2002
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

'Bait car' calls police, leads them to its thief
Seattle Times 4/18/2002
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Book buyers' privacy upheld by Colorado court
Seattle Times 4/9/2002
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/

Locke Privacy Bill
Seattle Times 3/12/2002
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Getting personal: 'Smart' ID cards linked to databases gain favor
Seattle Times 12/23/01
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Patriot Act draws privacy concerns
CNet News.com 10/26/2001
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7671240.html

Big Ears and Big Secrets
ABC News.com 12/17/2000
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/Echelon_990709.html

PROGRAMMING

Bad bills: Is pricey City Light computer to blame?
Seattle Times 4/12/2002
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

A lingua franca for the Internet
The Economist 9/20/2001
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=779459 

SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS

Computer game put son who killed himself at risk, mom says
Seattle Times, 4/9/2002
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/

SPAM

Spam kings stay ahead of hazards
Seattle Times 8/5/2002
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Inboxes grow fat with spam, ruining users' taste for Web
Seattle Times 8/4/2002
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/

WEB SEARCHING

Frothy pop culture floats back to top of surfer's destinations
USA Today 9/9/2002
http://www.usatoday.com/

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Last Updated:
Tuesday, 03-Dec-2002 14:58:52 PST

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