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NetHappenings Resources and Headlines 1/22/08

'Finding People' the mother load

US social networking: Fresh numbers, 'Grooming' by phone,teens mean online behavior, web briefs

K-12 Newsletter Science - Hilton Pond, Space Weather and NASA.

The Military Industrial Educational Complex - Building a homeland security campus and bringing the university to heel is a seven-step mission:

Learn How Bit Torrent Works: Being tracked by anti-piracy organizations and receiving infringement notices on file-sharing networks is becoming more common. A security project manager has just released a short video showing how it’s done.

Fascinating, enlightening ... and appalling. WELL worth the time to read it! Video: How People Are Tracked Using BitTorrent