This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquityand reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovationand facilitating unsettling new kinds of control.IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos represent the first wave of Internet-centered products that cant be easily modified by anyone except their vendors or selected partners. These tethered appliances have already been used in remarkable but little-known ways: car GPS systems have been reconfigured at the demand of law enforcement to eavesdrop on the occupants at all times, and digital video recorders have been ordered to self-destruct thanks to a lawsuit against the manufacturer thousands of miles away. New Web 2.0 platforms like Google mash-ups and Facebook are rightly toutedbut their applications can be similarly monitored and eliminated from a central source. As tethered appliances and applications eclipse the PC, the very nature of the Internetits generativity, or innovative characteris at risk.The Internets current trajectory is one of lost opportunity. Its salvation, Zittrain argues, lies in the hands of its millions of users. Drawing on generative technologies like Wikipedia that have so far survived their own successes, this book shows how to develop new technologies and social structures that allow users to work creatively and collaboratively, participate in solutions, and become true netizens.

The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It

The Morris worm was the first worm to hit the Internet and caused a disruption never seen before. In the 15 years since its appearance, have we learned our lessons ab out computer security?.

The Morris worm: a fifteen-year perspective

Computer Intrusion Detection and Network Monitoring

This paper presents and analyzes a selection of 21 “myths” identified from the authors' experience as being the most common in power utilities and the most harmful to their cybersecurity posture. For each one, tangible and referenced elements, typically sparse and dispersed, are presented in this single and up-to-date reference to support their rationalization. This paper also provides generic recommendations supporting power utilities on the ongoing and challenging process of dispelling the identified myths.

Cybersecurity Myths on Power Control Systems: 21 Misconceptions and False Beliefs

The acceptance and integration of social issues into computing curricula is still a work in progress twenty years after it was first incorporated into the ACM Computing Curricula. Through an international survey of computing instructors, this paper corroborates prior work showing that most institutions include the societal impact of ICT in their programs. However, topics often concentrate on computer history, codes of ethics and intellectual property, while neglecting broader issues of societal impact. This paper explores how these neglected topics can be better developed through a subtle change of focus to the significant role that ICT plays in addressing the needs of the community. Drawing on the survey and a set of implementation cases, the paper provides guidance by means of examples and resources to empower teaching teams to engage students in the application of ICT to bring about positive social outcomes - computing for the social good.

Enhancing the Social Issues Components in our Computing Curriculum: Computing for the Social Good

After careful examination of the evidence, the Cornell commission publishes its findings in a detailed report that sheds new light and dispels some myths about Robert T. Morris and the Internet worm.

D. Holcomb

Papers

The Cornell commission: on Morris and the worm