September 13,
2001 -
America Under Attack: Video Collection - DALLAS — Here
is a roundup of video clips related to the terrorist attacks
on Tuesday Sep. 11 and subsequent events the next day...
SPECIAL
September 21, 2001 -
Some of those killed in the WTF/DC tragedy left presence on Web...
USA Today
SPECIAL
September 16, 2001 -
Afghanistan a nightmare battlefield - By Molly
Moore and Kamran Khan, THE WASHINGTON POST, “You
yourself [the United States] trained them to be the best
guerrilla force in the world,” said a former Pakistani
intelligence official who said he advised Islamic freedom
fighters under CIA-sponsored programs during the rebels’ war
with Soviet forces in the 1980s. “Some of these Taliban were
the CIA’s superstars...”
SPECIAL
September 17, 2001 -
The World Mourns, a Pictorial of World Nations Show Grief &
Respect - "All things are wearisome, more than one
can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its
fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been
done will be done again; there is nothing new under the
sun..."
September 26, 2001 -
Experts: Don't hand out 'key' to the Net - ZDNET
Reuters, SAN FRANCISCO--Lawmakers may be asked to give
the FBI a "software key" to encryption technology that would
allow the agency to unlock secret Internet messages but
experts warn the measure would impair commerce and violate
privacy right without deterring terrorism...
September 26, 2001 -
E-mail rumor trackers are busier than ever - Within three
hours of the Sept. 11 attacks, David Emery, USA
Today — one of a handful of writers, editors, volunteers
and computer professionals who track Net rumors — was
reading his first attack-related e-mail. He never imagined
the flood that was to follow...
September 20, 2001 -
Bush Submits His Laws for War
- By Declan McCullagh, WireNews, WASHINGTON -- President Bush sent his
anti-terrorism bill to Congress late Wednesday, launching an emotional
debate that will force U.S. politicians to choose between continued
freedom for Americans or greater security...
September 18, 2001 -
Nimda hits Windows and Web systems - By Robert Vamosi, ZDNet Reviews,
Nimda is a
new network-aware, mass-mailing worm that infects both PC Windows
users and IIS Web servers. Think of Nimda (W32.nimda.a@mm) as a
combination of Code Red and the mass-mailing worm APost. Nimda attacks
at least a dozen known vulnerabilities on systems running Microsoft
IIS and can also spread via open shares to other connected machines on
a network. Compromised Web sites may display a Web page that
encourages users to download a file that is actually infected;
consequently, the worm can spread on Windows PCs via e-mail. This
infection may cause e-mail servers to run slowly or shut down. At this
time, antivirus software companies are still analyzing this
sophisticated worm. Nimda currently ranks a 8 on the ZDNet Virus
Meter...
September 20, 2001 -
Bush Bill Rewrites Spy Laws - By Declan McCullagh, WiredNews, "WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration
will ask for more power to eavesdrop on phone calls, the Internet and
voicemail messages, according to an outline of a bill obtained by
Wired News. In response to last week's catastrophic terrorist attacks,
President Bush plans to ask Congress to approve far-reaching
legislation that rewrites U.S. laws dealing with electronic
surveillance, immigration and support for terrorists..."
September 19, 2001 -
Nimda spreads--worse than Code Red? - Reuters,
LONDON--A fast-spreading computer worm has corrupted
corporate computer networks and personal computers in an
outbreak that could be more widespread and damaging than the
Code Red infections, computer security experts said. Known
as "Nimda," the word "admin" spelled backwards, the worm
first appeared in the United States on Tuesday, spread to
Asia overnight and thousands of European businesses opened
business Wednesday morning with infected computer systems...
September 14, 2001 -
This is how we know Echelon exists - By Kieren
McCarthy, The Register, The European Parliament
published its report into the Echelon spying system last
week in which it concluded it did exist, was against the law
and that the UK had a lot of explaining to do. We've sifted
through about 100 of the 194 pages and decided that since no
one had yet to officially admit its existence, you may be
interested in how the European Parliament decided it was
definitely out there...
September 19, 2001 -
Senator calls for encryption crackdown
- By Wendy McAuliffe ZDNet (UK), "The horror of Tuesday's coordinated
attacks on the commercial and military centers of America has prompted
the U.S. Congress to call for a global ban on "uncrackable" encryption
products. Speaking in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, Senator Judd Gregg
proposed tighter restrictions on software that scrambles electronic
data and often hinders a government's ability to obtain valuable
criminal intelligence..."
September 19, 2001 -
Taliban leader offers to talk with the U.S. But
Afghan ruler demands evidence on bin Laden, says he’s not
guilty of terror attacks - MSNBC, KABUL, Afghanistan, —
The supreme leader of the Taliban told Islamic clerics
Wednesday that Afghanistan’s rulers were prepared to renew
talks with Washington over the fate of Osama bin Laden, who
has been named by the United States as the prime suspect in
last week’s terrorist attacks. But Mullah Mohammed Omar
again insisted that the Saudi exile did not have the
resources to carry out such a strike and said that the
United States was looking for an excuse to destroy the
Afghan leadership...
September 18, 2001 -
FBI: Beware ‘patriot’ hackers - ‘Vigilantes’
deface and attack Taliban-related sites MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE
REPORTS, SAN FRANCISCO, — The FBI says it expects to see
an increase in hacking by “patriot” hackers targeting those
believed responsible for last week’s terrorist attacks. The
agency’s National Infrastructure Protection Center is also
warning e-mail users to watch out for viruses that appear to
be files about the World Trade Center...
September 17, 2001 -
No Sympathy from China's Cyber Elite - By Bruce
Einhorn, BusinessWeek Online, The wave of anti-U.S.
sentiment in the country's chat rooms reflects a deep-seated
anger, one that Beijing has knowingly nurtured. Who has been
taking satisfaction in the U.S. tragedy? You can start with
the misguided fundamentalists in the Middle East who seemed
to rejoice in the horrible attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon. But sadly, look also at some Internet
sites in a place seemingly removed from the passions of the
turmoil -- China...
September 14, 2001 -
Senate OKs FBI Net Spying
- By Declan McCullagh, WiredNews, WASHINGTON - FBI agents soon may be able to spy on Internet
users legally without a court order. On Thursday evening, two
days after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, the
Senate approved the "Combating Terrorism Act of 2001," which
enhances police wiretap powers and permits monitoring in more
situations...
September 13, 2001 -
Capitol
evacuated, 3 detained at JFK Airport -
(CNN) - Federal authorities ordered all three
New York City area airports shut down Thursday about the same
time that the Capitol building in Washington was being
evacuated. Senators and aides said the reason for the
evacuations, which happened just before 6 p.m., seemed to be a
bomb threat. Lawmakers were allowed back into the House and
Senate about an hour after the incident began...
SPECIAL
September 11, 2001 -
Terror
attacks hit U.S.
- NEW YORK (CNN) -- Terrorists struck the
United States Tuesday morning in harrowing, widespread attacks
that included at least three commercial jet crashes into
significant buildings. In the first attack, a plane hit the
north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly
before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower
about 20 minutes later. Both towers later collapsed...
SPECIAL
September 13, 2001 - "Other" sites with personal
accounts of the NY/DC tragedy...
Andy's Chest
http://www.andyschest.com
UltraSparky
http://www.ultrasparky.org/
PartyGirl
http://partygirl.diaryland.com/older.html
Tremble
http://www.tremble.com/
Kottke
http://www.kottke.org/
East/West
http://www.eastwest.nu/blog.shtml
September 11, 2001 -
Three tobacco companies prepare marketing curbs ahead of
U.N. treaty - By Gordon Fairclough and Shelly
Branch, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, The three largest
multinational tobacco companies, under mounting pressure
from governments world-wide, plan to announce Tuesday they
will curtail some of their global advertising and marketing
practices...
September 8, 2001 -
O'Donnell's
3 former bodyguards file lawsuit - by Paul
Brinkley-Rogers. A lawsuit by three former bodyguards for
television host Rosie O'Donnell, which claims she illegally
recorded their conversations, is raising questions about
privacy that leaves legal experts wondering whose rights come
first: the homeowners, or their employees. The lawsuit, filed
on Thursday in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on behalf of Steven
Rubino, Chris Delia and Ted Van Rijn, claims the men first
assumed that a device in the laundry room where they had a
desk in O'Donnell's multimillion dollar Star Island mansion
was a smoke detector...
September 11, 2001 -
The Day the Music Died...
Draft bill calls for gov't
copyright standard - By Robert Lemos, ZDNet News - Hardware manufacturers would be required to create and install a
government-approved anti-copying scheme in PCs and other digital
devices under a draft bill making the rounds on Capitol Hill,
according to sources. Known as the Security Systems Standards and
Certification Act (SSSA), the draft legislation plans to make illegal
the manufacture or trade of any "interactive digital device" that does
not have a "certified security technology" embedded in it. Moreover,
people who make "available to the public" a copyrighted work that has
had its protections removed or altered could face stiff fines--and in
some cases jail time, if they removed the copy protection
themselves...
