Can the internet keep a secret?
The internet is, by design, extremely insecure. Anyone sending an e-mail over the internet should assume that it is read or at least stored in several locations. It's as though every letter you send is photocopied
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Rats that might teach us something
By Brandon Astor Jones
"If we liken humanity to the forest and humanity's laws to the trees therein, then most Americans — especially posturing politicians — will not see the forest for the trees. Ever."
By Steve Myers
The Kremlin's purported reasons for its war against Chechnya are the apartment bombings earlier this year in Moscow and later in Volgodonsk, nearer Chechnya, and the so-called threat of "Islamic terrorism". However, many factors
By Chris Latham
JAKARTA — Despite torrential rain, thousands of students participated in protests here to commemorate the first anniversary on November 13 of the Semangi tragedy, named after the Semangi bridge where six students were shot dead by
New centre for Resistance in Melbourne
By Arun Pradhan
MELBOURNE — After more than a decade of housing left activism in Melbourne, the Anthony Street Resistance Centre has closed its doors permanently. A new Resistance Centre has opened, on the
By Sean Jacobs
CAPE TOWN — The powerful ruling alliance of South African President Thabo Mbeki's African National Congress and the 3 million-strong Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is under strain. In August, thousands of public
By Doug Henwood
The concept that has now entered daily speech as "globalisation" is used pretty recklessly. It's described as an innovation, when it's not; it's described as a weakening of the state, though it's been led by states and multi-state
Happy families — not
Straight and NarrowWritten by Jimmie ChinDirected by Alex LanhanNew Farm Nash Theatre, BrisbaneUntil December 4Phone 3217 6653 to book Review by Lynda Hansen
Straight and Narrow traces the disintegration of Bob (Matthew
Welfare through the looking glass
If anyone has travelled through time, then Lewis Carroll, best known for writing Alice in Wonderland, has. Conclusive evidence is provided by his modelling of the companion novel, Through the Looking Glass, on the
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