NYT asks whether security problems will force us to a new Internet

Do We Need a New Internet? - NYTimes.com  This sure looks like the way we're going.  Two nets:  one anonymous and dangerous, the other heavily authenticated and a lot less entertaining.

Rep. Norm Dicks objects to border enforcement in Washington State

After all, the last time DHS caught a terrorist along that part of the border, he was bound for California.  And that's, you know, somebody else's district.

E-Verify Trashed in Stimulus

Pretty sad. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9127982&intsrc=news_ts_head

Actually, this is what looks useful

Using Second Life to do collaborative emergency training

This looks useful

Disaster training -- collaborating in Second Life

A great series from Slate on European views of immigration

Europe deals with immigration. - By Alexandra Starr - Slate Magazine

This is bound to have emergency communications uses too

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