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...site Monday. By utilizing an operating system's "shortcuts," used to access and start programs stored on the hard drive, nefariously designed links could bypass the browser's security systems and automatically access programs, from e-mail to files and basic functions, that reside on the user's hard drive. All the site's designer would need to know is the location and code of a program on the drive. Such locations, unfortunately, are commonly standardized with operating systems' installation, and thus easily deduced. The bug could be a dose of publicity poison for Microsoft, by focusing computer users' fears...
...fully protected by free speech. The unsolicited "broadcasting" of bigoted emails which Mr. Tucker generalizes to stand for all forms of e-mail is separate and fully distinct matter. Even Internet sites which "distribute racist vitriol" are protected under free speech laws, because unlike unsolicited e-mail, the user must take a deliberate action to receive them...
...Baratunde R. Thurston '99 is the Claverly Hall User Assistant for HASCS, a member of the Harvard Computer Society and a Crimson editor...
...things must happen. The Internet may come under the thumb of capitalism, become less accessible to the average user and naturally attain the basic standards of propriety and decency found in other media like newspapers and television. We will look back and marvel at the days when the electronic frontier seemed like the Wild West. Alternatively, if we want this new medium to be an unprecedented democratic experiment in free expression, we should start thinking about new rules to play...
...YORK: Hundreds of Internet users looking for free pornography got something else when they tried to download pictures from three U.S. websites: hundreds of dollars in phone charges to a former Soviet republic. The Federal Trade Commission shut down the scam, charging three people and two companies in New York state with false and deceptive advertising. The ring allegedly lured Web surfers to its sites with the promise of free erotic pictures. Those who wanted to see the photographs first had to download special software that, once installed, surreptitiously hijacked the computer's modem. The program disconnected the users from...