Law & Disorder / Civilization & Discontents  NebuAd loses CEO,
business model in wake of tracking furor  With the loss of its
CEO and the end of most of its ISP trials, web tracking …
Congressional inquiries can be bad for business, as web tracking
company NebuAd has learned the hard way. After a summer of
Congressional hearings and nastygrams, NebuAd's ISP trials have
withered, its CEO has bolted, and a distinctly autumnal feeling
is in the air. Then, today, the Washington Post dropped the news
that NebuAd was scaling back its web tracking plans altogether
in order to "broaden its focus" into more traditional
advertising segments.  NebuAd's approach was controversial from
the start. The company used deep packet inspection appliances to
watch web traffic and sort users into various categories;
advertisements could then be delivered to web surfers who had a
habit, for instance, of frequenting travel sites during that
month.  Such approaches required access to raw ISP data, which
meant that NebuAd had to find