Sprint CEO says no one

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

WHO WILL USE THE HIGHWAY?  Sprint CEO William Esrey dismissed the potential
for consumer services on the information highway, saying the same people
touted as the prime market are the same ones who cannot program a VCR.
(Toronto Star, 02/02/94 B1).


NEO-NAZI NETWORK. The Associated Press reports that a year-old computer
network now functions as the backbone of Germany's neo-Nazi movement. The
"Thule Network," named for a small, elite 1920s movement considered the
Nazi vanguard, consists of at least a dozen bulletin boards and can be
accessed only by those who've passed a loyalty test. The network links an
estimated 1,500 extreme rightists and provides information on how to get to
political rallies, how to put out a newspaper, and reportedly, even how to
make a bomb. So far, networkers have eluded the law: "German police don't
know much about computers and bulletin boards. It's very new for them,"
says the editor of a German computer magazine. (St. Petersburg Times 2/2/94
A14)