Word: logs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Relay Chat (IRC). With hundreds of channels and thousands of users worldwide, conversations about every conceivable topic go on at every hour of the day. Different channels represent "rooms," in which users discuss interests ranging from Buddhism to vampires. IRC is notorious for its addictive qualities; serious users will log on for hours a day, acquiring an entire community of friends on the net. Imagine the Crimson Sports Grills on a Friday night; the net works on the same principle. Serious channel users can always find a welcoming atmosphere where everyone knows their login name...
...Spaceboy" began having 'netsex on AmericaOnline, an access provider with its own chatnetwork. He didn't log on as himself at first.Instead, he and a females friend created acharacter who claimed to be a sex-positivebisexual woman. "Her name was Natalia; she waskind of like Sharon Stone in 'Basic Instinct.' Weboth really got into 'netsex that way. We wouldhave these threesomes where we would go into aprivate room and have a sex chat with two otherpeople. Although I guess it would be a foursomesince there were two of us." They cruised as thecharacter for weeks before deciding to reassumetheir respective...
...log on as "FM" tochannel #netsex. Of the 45 visible users,44 seem to be men. I estimate that roughly thesame number of people are watching the channelinvisibly and sending private messages to otherusers. The charming repartee beings immediately...
Deciding that excellence in research is notworth harassment, I switch to channel#hehe. The boys follow. Ten of them. We hita communication barrier: I want to talkabout 'netsex, they want to have it. I recallRifraff's complaint: "What woman in her right mindwould want to log onto a straight sex channel?"This is worse than a final club party...
Investigative journalism is not "making" news as much as "finding" it, and I think that's a substantive difference. Lewin did not create the log file, nor did he manipulate it in order to allow himself or other students to see what was in it. Students other than Lewin had seen the file, and the tremendous potential for blackmail was acknowledged by almost everyone involved...