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February 25, 2003

John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace
Mark Dery, Conversation with Andrew Shapiro
Jesse Walker, Conversation with Lawrence Lessig

March 4, 2003

Interview with John Perry Barlow
Electronic Frontier Foundation, Analysis Of The Provisions Of The USA PATRIOT Act
via Soylent Communications: Patriot Act II

John Markoff and John Schwartz, Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up and Running
Ted Bridis, Homeland Security Bill Has Internet Provisions
Declan McCullagh, TEMPEST Brewing for PC Privacy?
Declan McCullagh, Terror Act Has Lasting Effects
Declan McCullagh, Thumbs Down on Net Wiretaps
Declan McCullagh, How Far Can FBI Spying Go?
NewsMax.com, Hillary Calls for National ID Card

March 11, 2003

Bake your own cookies
Jonathan Zittrain, Welcome to Second Class
Simson Garfinkel, Welcome to Sealand. Now Bugger Off.

March 18, 2003

Lisa M. Bowman, Free speech squeezed by copyrights?
Senate Committee on the Judiciary,
Protecting Creative Works in a Digital Age

April 8, 2003

ACLU, Fahrenheit 451.2: Is Cyberspace Burning?
Anti-Defamation League's Hatefilter

April 15, 2003

A brief overview of virtual worlds by a confessed addict
A summary of there.com
there.com Member Agreement
Virtual Worlds: A First-hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier


April 21, 2003

Charles Nesson and Anita Ramasastry, Cybercrime
Thehacktivist.com, What is Hacktivism?
the electrohippie collective, A response to criticism of 'distributed Denial of Service' (dDoS) protest actions online
DJNZ and the action tool development group of the electrohippies collective, Client-side Distributed Denial-of-Service: Valid campaign tactic or terrorist act?