Tuesday, February 28, 2006

A Torrent of Lawsuits

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Sunday, February 26, 2006

Security, Spam and EBay Law round up

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Finally tonight, folks, also worth noting: yet another intensely sensible comment on trust and security from Bruce Schneier , my man of the ...

Oyster cards, privacy and security

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Not that I'm claiming I started it or anything but there has been something of a flurry in the press lately about the Transport for Lond...
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Who Do You Trust, Reloaded?

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Interesting response from my coder guru pal, Pete Fenelon: I don't agree with every word but I thought it was worth reproducing in full....
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Who Do You Trust?

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Bill Thompson of the BBC Going Digital has written a very sensible column on how trusted computing, rather than being a smokescreen for All ...
Monday, February 13, 2006

Big game Season

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Still on jetlag content here .. From Boing BOing, Cheney shoots 78-year old lawyer with shotgun The best bit is the Reader Comment from som...
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Saturday, February 11, 2006

Airline security

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After three flights in 20 hours, I can't resist . (Via BRuce Schneier.)
Wednesday, February 01, 2006

The Flickr of Tiny Web beacons?

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My concerns about Flickr as a possible exercise in setting web beacons across many sites, have been examined more closely by Adam Fields on...

Mobile, Ubiquitous and Continuing Paranoia

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Rupert White of the Law Society Gazette points out that an even easier way to stalk someone rather than "borrowing" their mobile p...
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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...