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...military's microsensors and omniscient rows of video monitors may be expensive, but much of the technology needed to attack information systems is low-cost (a computer, a modem), widely available (a willing hacker) and just as efficient (one phone call). "It's the great equalizer," says futurist Alvin Toffler. "You don't have to be big and rich to apply the kind of judo you need in information warfare. That's why poor countries are going to go for this faster than technologically advanced countries." An infowarrior could be anyone in the checkout line at the local computer store...
...Microsoft Network or the Internet. You can easily create a bookmark, which looks like a small icon, and drop it onto your computer's desktop. Later, if you're off-line and want to return to the place, just click on the bookmark and Windows 95 fires up the modem and connects to the cool site. To share your discovery, you can even E-mail the bookmark icon to a friend...
...European gentlemen whose main concern was to keep obscene material away from women and the lower classes. Things got out of hand with the spread of literacy and education, which made pornography available to anybody who could read. Now, on the computer networks, anybody with a computer and a modem can not only consume pornography but distribute it as well. On the Internet, anybody can be Bob Guccione...
...many African-Americans celebrate as Juneteenth, a new service, "NetNoir," is making its bid to bring black culture to the mostly-white, mostly upscale online world, via America Online and the Internet. "We're creating something to encourage people to buy the hardware, to buy a computer and a modem," says co-founder Malcolm CasSelle. "Before, they didn't feel there was any reason to be on line." The service will include live conferences and written pieces by figures such as journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Olympic champion Carl Lewis, as well as information on African, Caribbean and Latin American...
Other schools such as Georgia Tech have taken the initiative in utilizing the Internet. Reed says he thinks the school receives most of its applications by modem...