Re: Shimomura on TV?
At 10:08 PM 1/10/96 -0500, John Young wrote:
Someone just said that NBC's Dateline showed a snippet of Shimomura on an upcoming show about rampant cyber-crime and that he was the best hope against it, or something to that effect. Did anyone see it and get the time and date?
Anyone attend the Shimomura-Markoff lecture at Stanford today?
Is this the media blitz for their pot-boiler? Can't wait to slurp it.
Has anyone heard anything else about this? I am getting real sick of the media's portrayal of the internet. They never say anything good about it. If they were to mention C2's system they would say how it is a no-rules server to hide thugs and pornos from the police. I am getting sick of watching this trash. The whole realm of the internet and computers and their associated areas are very dear to me I am sick of the media bludgeoning them to death. -- ==================Douglas Elznic=================== delznic@storm.net http://www.vcomm.net/~delznic/ (315)682-5489 (315)682-1647 4877 Firethorn Circle Manlius, NY 13104 "Challenge the system, question the rules." =================================================== PGP key available: http://www.vcomm.net/~delznic/pgpkey.asc PGP Fingerprint: 68 6F 89 F6 F0 58 AE 22 14 8A 31 2A E5 5C FD A5 ===================================================
Has anyone heard anything else about this? I am getting real sick of the media's portrayal of the internet. They never say anything good about it.
At the last World Wide Web consortium meeting I said that the media were pumping up the bubble and their favourite game is to see if they can destroy what they have the arrogance to imagine they created. That is why we have to replace the press. Consider this in the next election voters on the Internet will be able to read the press releases of the candidates without the press filtering them. There is the potential for the internet citizens to participate in shaping the political agenda - another role the press likes to usurp for itself. I recently held a workshop on political use of the Web which was attended by Republican and Democrat party workers and political activists from 6 other countries. One thing that suprized me was the consensus amongst the politicians that the differences between them were smaller than their differences with the press. To take one example. A collumnist in the New York Times recently received much coverage for calling the First Lady "a congenital liar". Yet little mention is made of the fact that said collumnist worked for both Nixon and Spiro Agnew and has never condemned either for their actions. Phill
Douglas F. Elznic writes:
I am getting real sick of the media's portrayal of the internet. They never say anything good about it.
The local news here in Austin, which in general seems to have a terrible time filling up a 30-minute news presentation, had a big story the other morning about how an Internet pedophile had been caught. It seems that some dude in Oregon was running a sting (I think it was a reporter, not police, but I'm not sure) and some loser in Austin took the bait and actually flew out there to meet the boy of his dreams. (Like I've said many times, it's a Real Good Thing most criminals are so incredibly stupid.) It turns out this guy worked at a school for handicapped children up in Round Rock (the heart of Williamson County, the place hard-core "old Austin" liberals like to think of as a portal to Redneck Hell). So they start asking questions and they find some kids who say the guy abused them (or whatever). (The whole story might turn out to be bogus, for all I know; it's disappeared from my sphere of awareness.) My wife pointed out that though the "news" people made heavy (though generally absurd) use of the Internet connection in the story, it left her thinking that the Internet is a damn good tool for trolling out undesirables like pedophiles (at least the stupid ones). It makes it a *hell* of a lot easier to sting people when *they'll pay for the plane tickets*! And of course, they can't do any actual damage over the wire while you string 'em along. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Nobody's going to listen to you if you just | Mike McNally (m5@tivoli.com) | | stand there and flap your arms like a fish. | Tivoli Systems, Austin TX | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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