Hidden Universes of Information on the Internet
	5. Misc. Sites

Check your persona right now. Make sure you understand what webmasters know about You. (If the link returns an error, try these back-ups: Web Site Environment Variables, What We Know About You,).

As you have seen, there is an abundance of online resources and a variety of tools to seek out information. Unfortunately, there are few of us who can afford to dedicate "their entire life" to the task of constantly searching the Internet for the latest information in a particular subject. Fortunately, there are other Internet users who are able to invest such time into the internet. Probably the single best way to thoroughly cover a topic is to discover a Meta-site for that topic. Meta sites are subject-specific indices that are created (and maintained) by someone who really cares about that topic.

• COAST Laboratory/Spaf's Hotlist - comprehensive security hotlist
• Security Resource Net's Intelligence Community
• Cryptography - WWW Virtual Library
• No More Secrets! - a very comprehensive subject oriented guide to security issues and hacking.
• And of course Yahoo's section on security and encryption
• CIAC Security Web Site
• International Association for Cryptologic Research
• IntelWeb - The WWW Site of Intelligence Watch Report (IWR)
• Hacking - The World's Greatest Hacking Links
• Alt.2600 Hacking FAQ
• Counterintelligence and Technical Security
• RSA Data Security

• David Bader's Parallel Computer Page including this list of world's most powerful supercomputer sites

• The Yamada Language Center - Incredible site points to all online language resources, including Mailing lists and Usenet Newsgroups.
• Dictionaries and other Language-specific Resources.
• Online Dictionaries (linked to more than 330 dictionaries of over 100 different languages)
• Ethnologue - Catalog of the world's languages.
• To look for online information on a country basis, use city.net and explore Yahoo's list of regionally oriented indices

• Encryption Policy Resource Page
• Crypto week
• Voter Telecommunication Watch
• The Privacy Pages
• NSA Security Handbook
• Secret Dress Code of the NSA

• A Note About Web Browsers and Privacy
• Andy's Netscape Cookie Info
• MEGATERMS: over 22,000 Military Terms and acronyms

Your public web server has detailed access statistics as to who has been visiting each and every page within your site. You should work towards having easy, clickable access to this information for each of your product description pages. For example, look at this annotated view of the access statistics for my own web site (My site isn't the best example to illustrate this, since my traffic consists mostly of my course alumni). Some of the visitors to my site are dial-up customers through an ISP, but there are many business domains also indicated. Your organization could easily develop a customized web access report which omits anyone from aol.com, erols.com, etc. Recognize that the webmasters of the sites you visit, will have access to this same kind of information.

• Go to a good subject tree such as Yahoo
• Browse around to the subject of your choice
• Usually there is an "indices" listing for each subject area
• Go and visit each of the indices for your subject
• Make a bookmark of the best ones
• Some meta-sites will let you sign-up for email announcements for when the meta site is updated (sign-up for such announcements)

Note for my Alumni: Your referrals are always appreciated