Word: bulletining
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...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists claims that Iraq was nowhere near completion of a nuclear weapon, and that only the Administration's hyperbole sold the idea. Professor Charles Maier reasonably wonders whether the tens of thousands of soldiers on the Basra road could not have been given more of a chance to leave their vehicles before being slaughtered. Was the slaughter necessary...
...Harvard's advising system is far superior to that of other colleges. He readily admits that standardized advising may range in quality, but adds that a lot of advice at Harvard can be found "in the air," whether that means a chance sentence a student reads in The Yard Bulletin or an offhand remark made by a proctor...
...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...
...ones committing the worst offenses. Those arrested were mostly teenagers more intent on showing off their computer skills than padding their bank accounts. One 14-year-old from New York City, for instance, apparently specialized in taking over the operations of remote computer systems and turning them into bulletin boards -- for his friends to play on. Among his targets, say police, was a Pentagon computer belonging to the Secretary of the Air Force. "I regard unauthorized entry into computer systems as wrong and deserving of punishment," says Mitch Kapor, the former president of Lotus...
...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...