The Guardian: US pulls the plug on Muslim websites.

Five hundred websites - many of them with an Arab or Muslim connection - crashed last Wednesday when an anti-terrorism taskforce raided InfoCom Corporation in Texas.

The odd thing is, this story is dated September 10 2001. The raid itself happened “last Wednesday”, which would be September 5. Did they (counter-terrorist agencies) suspect something was afoot, I wonder.

Update October 28 2004: We now know from the 9/11 Commission Report that “the system was blinking red” all that summer.

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Stephen Levy: Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists? And the million dollar question: would restricting crypto have given the authorities a change to stop these acts?

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Pat Farrel: No amount of cost effective structure will prevent all possible future attacks.

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Some of the best coverage of the WTC/Pentagon attack, as expected, comes from the Washington Post, which I find reading more than the NY Times these days. Case in point:

There was not even the grace of instant death. Instead, there was time to call from the sky over Virginia to loved ones, fingers pumping cell phones, voices saying quick, final goodbyes.

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Urban legends in Internet Time - shaped, propagated, and publicly debunked, all on the very same day.

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John Barlow: If we hate them, we will become them. John Barlow is vice-chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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George W Bush: We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. Amen. The Government of India could probably use that line, too.

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These days I am experimenting with that other Blogging tool, Radio Userland. With a bit of luck, I might actually be get something up soon.

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The Register: Senate lap-dogs Hollings, Stevens urinate freely on public’s leg.

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MP3.com does throw up a few gems from time to time. Case in point: The Goldberg Variations.

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