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...there are women for whom netsex clearly has its attractions. "It's not just the ultimate in safe sex," says Patrizia DiLucchio, a health-care consultant who runs the Eros conference on the WELL, a popular West Coast bulletin-board system. "It's also safe romance. It's like falling in love with a demon lover who knows just what you want and says all the right things." Several of DiLucchio's digital infatuations have blossomed into real-life love affairs...
...debate this month to revise its position that workplace speech could be regarded as sexual harassment only when it was directed at an individual and had "definable consequences" on such things as promotion. The new definition covers offensive language that is aimed at no one in particular -- like a bulletin-board sign that says A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE KITCHEN -- and merely leaves hurt feelings...
...hacker dragnets generated the most heat. Ten months after the Secret Service shut down the bulletin boards, the government still has not produced any indictments. And several similar cases that have come before courts have been badly flawed. One Austin-based game publisher whose bulletin-board system was seized last March is expected soon to sue the government for violating his civil liberties...
...Kapor has emerged as a leading watchdog for freedom in the information age. He views the tiny bulletin-board systems as the forerunners of a public computer network that will eventually connect households across the country. Kapor is worried that legal precedents set today may haunt all Americans in the 21st century. Thus he is providing funds to fight for civil liberties in cyberspace the best way he knows how -- one case at a time...
Many of America's 3,000 electronic bulletin-board systems have suffered some kind of infection, as have hundreds of users groups and thousands of businesses. "It is the topic of conversation within the computing society," says John McAfee, head of InterPath, a computer firm in Santa Clara, Calif...