Monday, January 30, 2006

Mobile and Ubiquitous Paranoia

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I was teaching my class about interception and surveillance last week and reminded them that you don't need to be government or Echelon ...

Google Stories get Better and Better

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Boing Boing link to a report on the implications of search engines - including Google - automatically recording IP address of searchers. ...
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Yet more cool visual aids

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Google Tibet Prison Camp And wow. Apparently you can avoid Google China censorship simply by putting the search terms in with Capital Letter...
Sunday, January 29, 2006

More visual aids

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Worth noting for teachers looking for cool visuals for powerpoints: the Sony rootkit debacle as graphic.

RFID cartoon

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Via Bruce Schneier's blog : no comment :-)
Friday, January 27, 2006

First British File Swappers Found Liable

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Worth recording for pure historical interest - from the Beeb: "High Court judges ordered two men to pay the British Phonographic Indust...

Google Print gets a Clear Field?

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A US district court has ruled in Field v Google that Google's cache feature, which allows users to access copies of web pages made when...
Thursday, January 26, 2006

Google China more addendum

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Boing-Boing helpfully gives us a link to empirical work comparing just what page results have been censored from Google China. Always good t...

Denial of Service: I Told You So, part 22

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As heavily predicted by various commentators, including, ahem, moi, Denial of Service (DoS) attack in the UK is set to become a new offence ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Google China addendum

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My correspondent pete@fenelon.com adds rather sensible: "Something that nobody's yet pointed out about Google China self-censoring...

It's Like Watching Little Anakin Grow Into Darth Vader

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Best title evah!!! as Silicon Valley.com comments on Google's controversial roll out of a state-agreed censored Google feed to China. No...
Monday, January 23, 2006

Scotland goes digital?

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The Scottish Executive have announced a consultation on the Electronic Communications (Scotland) Act 2006. The purpose of this consultation ...
Thursday, January 19, 2006

Wikipedia falls beneath the courts..

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Just as the Yahoo! v FRance litigation disappears thankfully beneath the waves of the technical process of the US appeal court procedures, a...
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Saturday, January 14, 2006

Blawgs hit London press!

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The Law Society Gazette , major organ of UK solicitors, has finally editorialised on blawgs, including this esteemed site. I guess, we reall...
Thursday, January 12, 2006

Being Annoying on the Internet to Be a Crime?

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The blogoverse has lately been full of the shocking news that President Bush has passed into law a provision, tucked into the Violence Agai...
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Friday, January 06, 2006

The digital citizen bites back

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Governments are keen on encouraging digital uptake by citizens, because they see the potential both to get votes, reduce voter apathy, and t...
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Thursday, January 05, 2006

Sony and the Root KIts Play Out

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Details of the Sony US settlement re their offending DRM-enabled "root kit" CDs are helpfully reported at Out-Law.com . Inter alia...

Road to Nowhere??

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Via Bytes in Brief "On December 26th, it was announced that Britain would become the first country in the world where the movements of ...

Cybercrime enters 2006, pt 3!

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Several very interesting recent developments in UK cybercrime case law: War-chalking or wireless bandwidth theft : The Register report that ...

The Future of the Borderless Net?

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various commentators have pointed me towards the rather fabulous latest issue of LegalAffairs - which features inter alia Julian Dibbell on...