Computer underground Digest Wed Mar 16, 1994 Volume 6 : Issue 25 ISSN 1004-042X Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@NIU.BITNET) Archivist: Brendan Kehoe (He's Baaaack) Acting Archivist: Stanton McCandlish Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala Ian Dickinson Koppa Ediqor: Phirho Shrdlu CONTENTS, #6.25 (Mar 16, 1994) File 1--Documenting the Rigged & Deadly Cultural Context of Info Age File 2--Privacy, Communications, and Cryptography File 3--How Citizens can Pursue Net Grassroots Polit. Action File 4--Gray Areas (Magazine) and The Computer underground Cu-Digest is a weekly electronic journal/newsletter. Subscriptions are available at no cost electronically. 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DISCLAIMER: The views represented herein do not necessarily represent the views of the moderators. Digest contributors assume all responsibility for ensuring that articles submitted do not violate copyright protections. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 23:44:29 CST From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS Subject: File 1--Documenting Rigged & Deadly Cultural Context of Info Age FINS SPECIAL REPORT MARCH 7, 1994 ================================================================ FINS INFORMATION AGE LIBRARY ADDITIONS Documenting the Rigged & Deadly Cultural Context of the Emerging Information Age Washington, DC--Fins Information Age Lib will release, Mar 8, 1994, a new online directory: Periodicals_and_Newspapers. This directory will contain thoughtful, thorough, and provocative articles of special relevance to the emerging Information Age. In this undertaking, Fins intends to track the antidemocratic propaganda model of the mass media developed by American business that has been discussed by writers during the last half of the twentieth century (Arendt, 1950; Lindblom, 1977; Herman & Chomski, 1988). Special emphasis will be placed on the technological imperative of the Information Age now being pursued by the "one-eyed prophets" of the Clinton-Gore Administration, which threaten totalitarian dangers of the "Technopoly" described by communications critic Postman (1992). Finally, articles that discuss alternative possibilities that can sustain and enhance democracy will also be highlighted. The articles now presented in the Periodicals_and_Newspapers directory disclose the rigged and lopsided competition of core ideas, and deadly cultural context of the emerging Information Age. In addition to several articles previously released in electronic format there are two articles new to the Internet. This includes a three-part series on "The Capital and Capitol Hill," written by Vigdor Schreibman, which describes the core values and systemic foundation for soaring youth homicide in the United States, nested in an economic system with undue reliance placed upon the ethic of profit maximization, guided by narrow individualism and the morality of the marketplace. The directory also contains an original article by Schreibman on, "Preservation of an American Heritage," which discusses the conflict between technology and the preservation of America's cultural heritage. The article was originally scheduled for publication by Washington's HILL RAG, Mar 4, 1994, but was killed without explanation. It is now included online in Fins_Information_Age/Periodicals_and_Newspapers/Fins-PaN-05. Now included in Periodicals_and_Newspapers are the following selections: Fins-PaN-01 Vigdor Schreibman, "The Politics of Cyberspace" (Fins ed., Jan 1994) (Figures 1-3, of this work are included in separate files, uuencode version: Fins-PaN-01a to 01c) Fins-PaN-02 Richard E. Sclove, "Democratizing Technology," in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Jan 12, 1994, pp. B1-B2 Fins-PaN-03 Patryk Silver, Bell Atlantic-TCI: Merger Mania, and Edward S. Herman, Peter Pangloss Predicts, and Herbert I. Schiller, The Corporate Pipeline Into Our Heads, in LIES OF OUR TIMES, January-February 1994 Fins-PaN-041 Vigdor Schreibman, Part 1, "The Capital and Capitol Hill: Propagating a counter-culture of madness" (Fins ed., Mar 1994) (Figure 1, of this work is included in a separate file, uuencode version: Fins-PaN-04b) Fins-PaN-042 Vigdor Schreibman, Part 2, "The Capital and Capitol Hill: A setting for madness (Fins ed., Mar 1994) (Table 1, of this work is included in a separate file, uuencode version: Fins-PaN-04b) Fins-PaN-043 Vigdor Schreibman, Part 3, "The Capital and Capitol Hill: The triumph of Jeffersonian Democracy (Fins ed., Mar 1994) Fins-PaN-05 Vigdor Schreibman, "Preservation of an American Heritage" (Fins ed., Mar 1994) Follow these directions to browse the Fins Information Age Lib: If you have a Gopher client : gopher to inform.umd.edu and go to the directory Educational_Resources/Computers_and_Society/Fins_Information_Age If you have ftp : ftp to inform.umd.edu cd to inforM/Educational_Resources/Computers_and_Society/Fins_Information_Age =========================================================================== BECOME A MEMBER OF FINS--COLLABORATE IN PROTECTING THE SPIRIT OF CYBERSPACE +------------------------------------------------------------------- Membership rate: $30.00 a year. United States and International members receive 24 issues of Fins News Columns a year; plus networking, or print reproduction rights in primary markets; plus Fins Information Age Library. +------------------------------------------------------------------- Federal Information News Syndicate, Vigdor Schreibman, Editor & Publisher, 18-9th St. NE #206, Washington, DC 20002. Internet: fins@access.digex.net. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ + END THIS FILE + +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+===+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=