-Caveat Lector- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:15:00 -800 From: Wired News Daily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wired News Daily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Your Private Email on Parade? Wired News - a must-read for the latest information and commentary on our rapidly changing digital world. W I R E D N E W S Top Stories - 11:53am 29.Jun.99.PDT - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - advertisement GRAB THE GATOR! Fills out forms and remembers passwords! FREE! Gator is a smart online companion that fills in forms with one click! Gator doesn't hog your screen, and surfaces only when needed! Under 3 minutes to download -- Grab the Gator now! http://www.gator.com/offers/ads/wirednews29/ - - - - - - - - - YOUR PRIVATE EMAIL ON PARADE? (TECH. 11:53 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/technology/story/20481.html For at least two weeks, personal mail kept at the MailStart and MailStart Plus Web email services were wide open to crackers. A bug at least a year old is blamed. By James Glave. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAPAN RISKS DIGITAL PEARL HARBOR (POL. 11:53 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/politics/story/20484.html Japan's leadership is ossified when it comes to understanding technology, leaving the country vulnerable to cyberterrorism and other forms of electronic attack, a critic says. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NUKE PLANTS GIRDING FOR Y2K (TECH. 11:53 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/technology/story/20482.html A nuclear meltdown come midnight on 31 December would be a real drag, but the likelihood of it happening -- in the United States, anyway -- seems increasingly remote. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STUDY: ONLINE ANONYMITY CRITICAL (POL. 11:53 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/politics/story/20480.html A National Science Foundation-funded study says that the Internet will not thrive unless Net users are allowed to hide their identities. By Chris Oakes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GROUPS KEEP HEAT ON DOUBLECLICK (POL. 11:53 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/politics/story/20485.html The nation's leading privacy watchdogs tell DoubleClick's shareholders that a proposed acquisition by the online marketer was bad news, indeed. By Chris Oakes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINUX FOR THE MASSES (TECH. 11:53 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/technology/story/20479.html Ebiz Enterprises zeroes in on the computer newbie with a new computer priced at just US$200. Also: Linux gets a boost from Objective Reality Computer, which is working on a three-dimensional interface for the increasingly popular OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CMGI TO BUY ALTAVISTA (BUS. 9:10 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/business/story/20477.html It's official: CMGI will buy most of AltaVista from Compaq Computer for US$2.3 billion in stock. The goal is to beef up CMGI's clout on the Web. By Craig Bicknell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OCALAN TO DIE (WRLD 9:10 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/story/20478.html Abdullah Ocalan, the rebel leader blamed for 37,000 deaths during a 15-year struggle for Kurdish independence in southeastern Turkey, has been sentenced to death by a Turkish court. Ocalan, convicted of treason, has been bargaining for his life while on trial, promising that his Kurdistan Workers Party would work for peace if he is spared, while warning of a terrorist bloodbath if he is hanged. Turkey is on a heightened state of alert, as are a number of European countries with large Kurdish minorities. Meanwhile, Ocalan's defense lawyers say they will appeal his conviction to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REAL'S LATEST DOES SLIDE SHOWS (BUS. 7:30 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/business/story/20476.html Free, downloadable software will also come bundled with Adobe's Photoshop products. Also: Sought-after Frontier warns of lower profits.... Xerox looks to go commercial with electronic paper.... BT, AT&T deal backed by Justice Department.... And more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X GAMES: EXTREME TECHNOLOGY, TOO (CULT. 3:00 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/culture/story/20471.html It isn't just the athletes pushing boundaries. The people who televise the X Games are pretty extreme themselves. Steve Kettmann reports from San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IRIDIUM DEBT DEADLINE NEARS (BUS. 3:00 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/business/story/20467.html The indebted satellite phone company is supposed to come up with a plan this week to appease lenders. Creditors aren't holding their breath. By Joanna Glasner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . YAHOO: YOUR HOUSE IS MY HOUSE (TECH. 3:00 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/technology/story/20472.html It's not such a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Yahoo moves into GeoCities and announces that it owns every homestead on the block. By Declan McCullagh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ARTIST HAS 'NO TIME TO LOSE' (CULT. 3:00 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/culture/story/20454.html Joachim Hamster Damm performs No Time to Lose, his latest multimedia, genre-bending work at the Theater of the World festival. David Hudson reports from Berlin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GIVING VOICE TO NET SECURITY (TECH. 3:00 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/technology/story/20460.html The Home Shopping Network is going to use voiceprint technology to recognize customers on the phone. HSN says it's convenient and secure. It will also allow the network to hone its customer database. By Leander Kahney. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRONTIER FRUSTRATES QWEST (BUS. 3:00 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/business/story/20468.html Qwest tells shareholders it will do whatever it takes to win its bid for two telcos currently in merger agreements with rival Global Crossing. Frontier says it will do nothing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICROSOFT SHARES PIRACY LOOT (BUS. 3:00 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/business/story/20469.html Microsoft plans to donate funds generated from antipiracy settlements and criminal penalties against software counterfeiters to education projects and technology access programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BAYCORP'S NET POWER EXCHANGE (BUS. 3:00 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/business/story/20463.html BayCorp Holdings spawns a Web site to mine the market for wholesale power. But will utilities and power marketers forsake the phone? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NAILING NET HATE MAIL (POL. 3:00 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/politics/story/20470.html A California man is sentenced for sending hate messages over the Internet that targeted Latinos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LIDDY: PUT A LID ON LIBRARIES (POL. Monday) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/politics/story/20464.html Republican presidential contender Elizabeth Dole lays the first plank in her technology platform, calling on Congress to withhold federal funding from libraries that refuse to filter Net content. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LET THE DOCUMENTS GO FREE (POL. Monday) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/politics/story/20461.html A pair of Washington-based taxpayer advocacy groups want the Feds to post more material to the Web, and launch a new campaign that they hope will open the floodgates. By Katie Dean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LUCENT: WE AIN'T FIRING (BUS. Monday) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/business/story/20457.html Lucent executives say they don't have plans for massive firings now that the mammoth acquisition of Ascend Communications is complete. In fact, they're hiring. By Joanna Glasner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wired News is a real-time news service offering news briefs and in-depth reporting on politics, business, culture, and technology. 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