I stumbled across an article today that makes me wonder what kind of world some people really want. In this article, a librarian refused to divulge confidential records to the police without a subpoena. As a result, she is facing disciplinary action for “a blatant diregard for the Police Department”.
Maybe I’m wrong, but [...]
A friend of mine sent me a recent news article, detailing the predatory actions of a young man who managed to extort nude pictures and online companionship from a variety of girls through the social networking site Facebook.com.
I must say that I am appalled. Appalled at the fact that there are college-age women who [...]
So I just checked my MySpace profile, because I’m eagerly awaiting a response from a friend I hadn’t heard from in a while, and I found that I actually had friend requests pending approval. Since I’m almost never on myspace (or friendster, or xanga) I was amazed that someone had actually found me. [...]
This article was originally spurred by the generally negative portrayal of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in the novel Digital Fortress. As a long-standing fan and member of the EFF, I must admit that I was more than a little taken aback at some of the characterizations of the organization. The members of [...]
I just finished reading the novel Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. With the recent release of the DaVinci Code, several of my co-workers have been re-reading Brown’s novels, and as I’d already read both The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, one of them loaned me a copy of his earlier novel. I [...]