Network World columns

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2004

See "Edited" for the version that ran in the paper.

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• 2004-01-05: Making all that is new old again ( p 22) Edited

Little real change predicted for 2004.

• 2004-01-12: The Internet is not a railroad, or is it? ( p 26 ) Edited

Andrew Odlyzko on the "Pricing and architecture of the Internet:." 

• 2004-01-19: Cisco next time? ( p 24 ) Edited

Blocking images of money.

• 2004-01-26: Just how is this news? ( p 32 ) Edited

The dangers of software monocultures.

• 2004-02-02: Is letting go the right way forward? ( p 24 ) Edited

The DVD Copy Control Association drops a lawsuit.

• 2004-02-09: Sometime via the 'Net? ( p 22 ) Edited

The challenges of Internet-based voting.

• 2004-02-16: Blindly looking in the wrong place ( p 22 ) Edited

Going about wiretapping the Internet in the wrong way.

• 2004-02-23: Fighting terrorism with underwear size ( p 32 ) Edited

The DHS CAPPSII data warehouse.

• 2004-03-01: Privacy as an afterthought ( p 24 ) Edited

The lack of a privacy concern on the part of RFID proponents.

• 2004-03-08: The Internet as us ( p 22 ) Edited

The impact of Google News.

• 2004-03-15 The butterfly as protector (or petty censor?) ( p 31 ) Edited

Stupid censorship on the Microsoft search engine.

• 2004-03-22: Looking for the dumb ones ( p 26 ) Edited

More on wiretapping the Internet.

• 2004-03-29: If it had teeth it might bite someone ( p 28 ) Edited

The purposely toothless efforts of the National Cyber Security Partnership.

• 2004-04-05: Real, not pseudo, flying internet ( p 28 ) Edited

Connexion by Boeing.

• 2004-04-12: Fast bits as a right for the masses?  ( p 28 ) Edited

President Bush's push for broadband deployment.

• 2004-04-19: Patching yesterday's holes? ( p 20 ) Edited

More from the National Cyber Security Partnership.

• 2004-04-26: Enforcing the permission-to-spam act ( p 38 ) Edited

The FTC's weak efforts to enforce the CAN-SPAM Act..

• 2004-05-03: Resetting the Internet? ( p 26 ) Edited

The problem of TCP resets.

• 2004-05-10: Lessons from the e-voting mess ( p 34 ) Edited

Learning form the many problems seen in electronic voting systems.

• 2004-05-17: Forced admissions of poor security ( p 32 ) Edited

The California database breach disclosure law.

• 2004-05-24: UFOs and flying penguins ( p 32 ) Edited

The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution's wacko attack on Linux.

• 2004-05-31: A minority (computer) report ( p 24 ) Edited

The "Multistate Anti-TeRrorism Information eXchange' (MARTIX)" system predicting who will be bad. 

• 2004-06-07: Maintaining general unreachability ( p 33 ) Edited

the proposed cell phone directory.

• 2004-06-14: Investing in air, again ( p 22 ) Edited

Craig McCaw is investing in a different type of wireless this time around.

• 2004-06-21: Estimating the cost of a Windows Armageddon ( p 34 ) Edited

A well written worm could cost $50 billion.

• 2004-06-28: Is there a little devil on the way? ( p 22 ) Edited

 Senator Hatch is at it again.

• 2004-07-05: Is paying twice better? ( p 18 ) Edited

A senator is trying to keep the National Weather Service from being useful to you and me.

• 2004-07-12: Maybe you shouldn't digitize your communications ( p 22 ) Edited

A court eviscerating the anti-wiretapping law.

• 2004-07-19: Actual losses or wishful thinking? ( p 22 ) Edited

The Business Software Alliance ignores reality to hype its case.

• 2004-07-26: I guess VoIP must now be real ( p 28 ) Edited

VoIP must be real now that Fortune mag has heard of it

• 2004-08-02: The smile is long gone ( p 22 ) Edited

The long slow painful death of AT&T.

• 2004-08-09: Our tax dollars, almost at work ( p 24 ) Edited

The Department of Homeland Security failing to counter cyberterrorism.

• 2004-08-16: FCC chooses middle road on 'Net wiretapping ( p 22 ) Edited

The initial proposal from the FCC on wiretapping the Internet.

• 2004-08-23: Faster than you need is not fast enough ( p 22 ) Edited

802.11n high-speed wireless.

• 2004-08-30: Can anyone down there spell consumer? ( p 22 ) Edited

The US Copyright office as shill for the copyright industry.

• 2004-09-06: The Internet is not a new telephone ( p 26 ) Edited

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell's comments at the Aspin conference.

• 2004-09-13: Unwiring cities ( p 26 ) Edited

Muli WiFi efforts.

• 2004-09-20: Simple solutions are often wrong ( p 22 ) Edited

A Pennsylvania anti-child porn law that fails on a number of fronts.

• 2004-09-27: Tattletail Webex ( p 40 ) Edited

Clueless marketers and WebEx a bad combination.

• 2004-10-04: Is part of the future of VoIP open? ( p 30 ) Edited

VoIP & open source.

• 2004-10-11: Insecurity (or is that frustration) at the top ( p 24 ) Edited

Another U.S. Cybersecurity Chief quits.

• 2004-10-18: Core software as security vulnerabilities ( p 22 ) Edited

The SANS Institute's useless advice.

• 2004-10-25: Knitting legal patchwork quilts ( p 28 ) Edited

California creates data protection laws that apply nationally.

• 2004-11-01: Misapplied faith ( p 28 ) Edited

More on e-voting.

• 2004-11-08: NSA projects, Manhattan and otherwise ( p 22 ) Edited

Useful work from the National Security Agency.

• 2004-11-15: Unwanted vocalizations ( p 36 ) Edited

Web pages that make noise.

• 2004-11-22: Compartmentalizing the Internet ( p 24 ) Edited

If the Internet is not confined to a US state is it confined to a country?

• 2004-11-29: Quality of threats rather than quality of software ( p 28 ) Edited

Microsoft deciding to threaten its potential customers.

• 2004-12-06: A warning about future telcom 'reform'? ( p 36 ) Edited

A lesson from Pennsylvania about the difficulty of telcom reform that is anything but support for the local telephone companies.

• 2004-12-13: A controlled-access Internet? ( p 28 ) Edited

A former CIA chief suggests that you should need permission to use the Internet.

• 2004-12-20: A year later and still grumpy ( p 22 ) Edited

Shopping sites that demand setting up an account before they are willing to take your money.