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Federal Court removes WikiLeaks.org DNS entry

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:54:00-0400

By way of Secrecy News, A federal court on Friday issued an injunction disabling the internet domain name of Wikileaks.org, The injunction stems from a complaint by Bank Julias Baer, a Swiss bank, for posting &...

ACLU takes COPA back to court.

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:01:00-0400

The Child Online Protection Action (COPA) is being challenged in court again by the ACLU in Philadelphia. The COPA, originally passed in 1998 hasn't been able to be enforced because of challenges against it as well as a federal appeals court ru...

Scrubbing Video ruled as against U.S. copyright law

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:18:00-0400

CBC reported that Axing sex, swearing from films violates copyright: court in a lawsuit by 16 U.S. directors against three Utah based companies that scrub films.I found the quote from Michael Apted interesting in regards to "Unauthorized ed...

Why we need Net Neutrality

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:50:00-0400

Most of the concerns I've seen regarding net neutrality are the jocking of position of the communication carriers over encroaching services and cross-offerings such as cable providers providing telephone service and popular websites eating up enormou...

Police raid The Pirate Bay and grab wrong servers

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:49:00-0400

While reading an article on BBCNews regarding the government conflicts with "The Pirate Bay", a site that provides Bit Torrent links, I took particular interest in the section regarding the Swedish government accidentally seizing the server...

FY 07 House Intelligence Authorization Bill, Section 432

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:55:00-0400

Pogo has an interesting article on FY 07 House Intelligence Authorization Bill, Section 432, which would allow CIA and NSA personnel to make arrests without a warrant if they have probable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has...

Google Censorship

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:27:00-0400

If you're in the U.S. check out this example of Google Censorship.Then ask yourself why would a video be available in other countries but not in a country where Free Speech is part of the very foundation of our country.Sometimes I get so immersed in ...

President Bush states that he Doesn't Know Jack

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:35:00-0400

Old news by now, but I think my title is more appropriate in regards to the Jack Abramoff story.

Infrastructure

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:16:00-0400

Have you ever been sitting at a traffic light, looked out the window and seen one of those little yellow/orange flags that say something to the effect "Caution: buried fiber optic cable" and wondered who would be affected if it were cut?&nb...

ITunes and Privacy

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:14:00-0400

It's been reported in the Mercury News and other publications about Apple's response concerning privacy issues on how iTunes tracks you by a unique id and suggests purchases compatible with your lifestyle. Before, it wasn't obvious on how to tu...

$400 Billion lost to Rampant software piracy, or is it?

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:22:00-0400

Reuters (by way of Yahoo) reported that Rampant software piracy stifles growth. The article states that if the currently estimated piracy rate of 35% was reduced by 10 percentage points to 25 percent could generate 2.4 million jobs and $4...

Eolas patent and market pressure

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:00:00-0400

With the recent court rulings against Microsoft regarding the Eolas patent. It looks like Microsoft is again going ahead with plans to alter their browser to stop it from infringing the patent. Here's an article on it at CNET. When ...

Blog Spotting software by IBM

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:00:00-0400

Internetnews.com reported on new "Blog-Spotting" software created by IBM to help companies get a pulse from the web community regarding their image. While news aggregators are great, It looks like this software acts more as an uber ag...

U.S. Supreme Court rules modifying locked code is ok

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:43:00-0400

News.com recently reported that "High court won't hear programmer's appeal". "William Krause of New York first charged in 1996 that Titleserv, a title insurance firm, had committed copyright infringement when it altered eight pro...

email used as a DoS attack

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:35:00-0400

eCommerceTimes reported on a "Failed UK Case Highlights International Cyberlaw". A key point of the article is that the U.K. judge ruled that massive amounts of emails could not be considered a Denial of Service attack since the serve...