Accountability and Computer Decision Systems
System designers should articulate standards of behavior as part of a process of professionalization that will create accountability in the field of computer decision systems.
Topic: Community/Culture
Puppets, Verbings, and Serious Reflections at ASIS ’93
To function in a distributed/decentralized environment, client-server or peer-to-peer, organizations must develop an Information Constitution … to avoid bickering about whom and to whom information and responsibility rest.
Security Pundits Weigh War Threat
Hackers are getting more savvy every day. Your risks are increased by putting your business on the Internet or on any public network.
Order Versus Orders
FidoNet is either going to interconnect with UseNet or die … Once we have a way to get new standards formally adopted, then we can really get to work on a superior method of conference distribution. One that is impervious to “dupe” messages, that does not contain 10 or 12 lines of SEEN-BYs, and that allows conferences to be truly fully moderated.
What Does the Future Hold?
MUAs are definitely the future … Graphics are seen as being the key to bringing MUAs to a wider audience; sound, too, if possible.
Interview with Richard Bartle
MUDs won’t look the same in 10 years time, if they exist at all.
Interview with Richard Bartle
I don’t see MUD2 going graphical like DragonSpires, because I wrote it as a text-based game. As far as I’m concerned, making it graphical would be like doing a cartoon of “War and Peace” – interesting, but hardly the same as the original.
Interview with Richard Bartle
It doesn’t matter how good a game is, if there’s a free alternative that satisfies their basic needs, they’ll take it.
Coral Reef Culture
Reckoning with technology means reckoning with the fact that we no longer can rely on authority figures and moral templates to define the boundaries of our experiences. We must navigate our own path through the newfound cultural space, and this means trusting in our own ability to act appropriately in new situations.
Chapter 16: Cracking the Ice
Just how close to digital anarchy we move depends as much on the way we perceive law and order in the datasphere as it does on what’s actually going on. While many young people with modems and personal computers are innocently exploring networks as they would the secret passages in an interactive fantasy game, others are maliciously destroying every system they can get into … No single attitude toward computer hacking and cracking will suffice.