| December 2, 2004 | - Former head of the CIA George Tenet said it might be necessary to limit access to the Internet because terrorists could use it to attack the United States.
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Washington Times
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| January 22, 2004 | - An expert panel that was asked to review a Pentagon-funded Internet voting system declared that the system was fundamentally flawed. "Using a voting system based on the Internet," said one of the experts, "poses a serious and unacceptable risk for election fraud." The Pentagon nonetheless said that it "stands by" the program, which will be used in several primaries this year. "We feel it's right on," said a spokesman, "and we're going to use it."
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New York Times
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| November 20, 2001 | - Philip Morris announced that it will change its name to Altria and promptly registered derogatory Internet domain names such as altriakills.com.
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| November 20, 2001 | - Lists of Florida flight schools, a flight-simulator program, and a map showing power plants in Europe were also found. It later emerged that the atomic-bomb recipe was a parody that has been circulating on the Internet for years.
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| October 23, 2001 | - The FBI was moving to require all internet service providers to reconfigure email systems to make them more accessible to government spying.
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| October 16, 2001 | - The major American television networks agreed, out of patriotism, they said, to a request by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice not to broadcast future statements by Osama bin Laden; Rice said she was concerned about secret messages being communicated to “sleeper” terrorists in the United States but did not reveal how she would prevent such evil-doers from viewing the speech via the Internet or satellite television.
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| September 25, 2001 | - Video-game makers delayed introducing several new titles; WTC Defender, a video game in which players try to shoot down airplanes before they destroy the World Trade Center, was removed from the Internet.
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| September 4, 2001 | - In Lumberton, Mississippi, a man was planning to amputate his useless feet with a guillotine live on the Internet; he hopes to raise money for prosthetic legs.
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| August 7, 2001 | - Chris Morris, a British comic, tricked several politicians and celebrities into saying absurd things on television about the Internet and pedophilia. “Using an area of the Internet the size of Ireland,” a Labour member of parliament said, “pedophiles can make your keyboard release toxic vapors that can make you more suggestible.”
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| July 24, 2001 | - Human-rights groups were putting the finishing touches on Peekabooty, anticensorship software that would defeat all Web filters and allow Internet users in countries such as Saudi Arabia, China, and North Korea access to government-censored sites.
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| July 24, 2001 | - A New York City artist, distraught after her boyfriend ended their relationship by email, broadcast her suicide attempt over the Internet; she was rescued when a witness called 911.
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| June 26, 2001 | - A new study claimed that one fifth of all children who use the Internet are solicited for sex at one time or another.
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| June 12, 2001 | -
Turkey banned the posting of falsehoods on the Internet.
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| March 27, 2001 | - The United States government fired a mapping specialist at the U.S. Geological Survey who posted a map on the Internet showing caribou calving grounds in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where President Bush hopes to drill for oil.
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| March 20, 2001 | - The head of India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party was forced to resign after Internet journalists posing as arms dealers videotaped him accepting a bribe.
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| February 13, 2001 | - The Pope was considering naming Saint Isidore of Seville the patron saint of Internet users and computer programmers.
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| January 2, 2001 | - A large man with a bushy beard ran amok and shot dead seven co-workers at an Internet consulting company near Boston.
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Congress passed the Children's
Internet Protection Act, which will require all schools and libraries that receive federal funds for Internet access to install filtering software; civil-liberties groups were concerned that this would prevent minors from accessing porn sites.
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| November 28, 2000 | - The FBI's packet-sniffing computer, Carnivore, can indeed capture and archive all the email that passes through an internet service provider's servers, according to a new report.
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| October 3, 2000 | - An Italian
television station broadcast selections from child
pornography videos after investigators, in an Internet sting operation, arrested eight Italian perverts.
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| September 26, 2000 | -
German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder presented a ten-point plan to connect all German schools and public libraries to the Internet, with free access, by the end of next year.
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| September 19, 2000 | - An education advocacy group warned that spending money on computers and Internet connections for schools is a big waste of money with no demonstrable educational benefit.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Time Warner bought Africana.com, an Internet company founded by Harvard professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kwame Anthony Appiah.
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| July 25, 2000 | -
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat failed to meet President Bill Clinton's deadline for making peace in the Middle East; Clinton declared the summit over and flew to Okinawa for a meeting of the G8, the world's seven richest industrialized countries plus Russia, where the leaders issued a strongly worded statement decrying the alarming lack of Internet access in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.
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| July 25, 2000 | - They pledged to form a “dot force” to combat this “digital divide.” Barak and Arafat remained at Camp David, chaperoned by Madeleine Albright, who received an encouraging note from the G8 leaders, each of whom scrawled his best wishes below a Japanese newspaper photograph of a grim Secretary of State and her two intransigent charges.
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| July 25, 2000 | - The Federal Bureau of Investigation admitted the existence of Carnivore, a specially designed computer that allows the agency to search for criminal activity by plugging into an Internet service provider's “backbone” and reading people's email.
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| July 25, 2000 | - A bill that would have banned Internet gambling failed to achieve the required two thirds majority in the House of Representatives, thus assuring continued campaign contributions from the Internet gambling lobby.
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