Computers and Society

Internet

Computer Security
Internet 'Haves' and 'Have Nots'
In Defense of Sys Admins
Going into Denial
Challenge-Response Spam Control
Fighting Spam
Publish or be Damned
Internet Telephony
Computer Security for the Rest of Us
Anatomy of a Malware Program

Government

Head in a Virtual Cloud...
Technology Misapplied
The Politics of e-Government
RFID Passports
Research and Development
Value for Money?

Microsoft

Microsoft
'Ker-Ching!' That'll do nicely...
Shaking the Corporate Tree - Microsoft Licensing
A Trial for All Seasons
Three Years Late, and Counting
Where Weasels Dare
Wither Windows?
The Cost of Doing Business
Microsoft and Novell - Long Spoons at Dawn

Intellectual 'Property'

Copy Wrong
'Piracy' - An Open Letter to the Music Industry
The Palladium Project
The Chilling Wind of Patent Law
'We Own All Your Computers...'

Data Theft

Data Theft: Once More Unto the Breach
Data Theft: Them Rules are Made for Breakin'
Personal Losses

Miscellaneous

Computers, education and games
Dot Coms as 20th Century Cargo Cults
Stress and the Single Computer
Happy Birthday!
Newsletters and Mailing Lists
The 'Benefits' of Digital TV
AOL - Grown Ups Back in Charge!
Grid and Utility Computing - The Return of the Bureau
Desk Top Linux
In Through the Out Door
Miss Piggy embraces open source
Girls and Computer Games
Are Certificates Worth the Paper they are Written on?
The FCC - Hubris and Legal Limits
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Joel on Software
Video iPod
Come on Baby, Light My Fire
Databases get interesting (well almost)
The RFID Readers Story
British Gas online payment
Hewlett Packard - the Unasked Questions
HP Goes to Washington

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