Thursday, February 19, 2009

Facebook U-Turn on New Terms and Conditions

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Following Facebook's recent climbdown on their change of terms & conditions to continue claiming a license to use and publish user ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

When MI5 tell you the state is spying on its citizens too much...

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.. they're probably right? Stella Rimington, our very own real life M, in unlikeliest declaration of support for the forces of light of...
Monday, February 16, 2009

It's Sooooooooo GikII!!

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I'm very happy to announce that the success of GikII over the last three years has spawned an Australian spin-off, to be known as SoGikI...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Countdown to the Digital Britain report..

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Latest from The Times : "Internet service providers will not be forced to disconnect users who repeatedly flout the law by illegally sh...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Google times are here again

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Pangloss has found (via Google, how else!?) a rather interesting blog called http://blogoscoped.com/ . It contains a little gem called Googl...

Interesting times: Pope Lambasts Facebook

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The Pope, no doubt flushed with the media attention paid to his launching of a new Pope-Channel on You Tube, has also weighed in against Fr...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

Security: Two factor Authentication Spreads

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One for Technollama this :-) We all know about the physical tokens or dongles you can now get to provide two factor authentication for your ...
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BERR, the music industry and file sharing: also stupid porn law ideas

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Sorry for long silence. A bit of a catch up here of some recent very important stories.. Ray Corrigan helpfully reminds me that the Departm...

BILETA 2009, April 21-23, Winchester

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And more!! BILETA 2009 - The 24th Annual Conference Tuesday 21 - Thursday 23 April 2009 Hosted by the University of Winch...

SCRIPT-ed conference

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Apologies to anyone who has seen this before, but this is a potentially fantastic conference, worthy of re-promotion! The editors of the w...
Monday, December 15, 2008

IWF v Wikipedia and the Rest of the World (except OUT-LAW)

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Ever late to the party, still-bronchitic Pangloss would just like to make a few points about the Great Wikipedia Cleanfeed Debacle , if onl...
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Gowers Rides Again

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Stunning polemic by Andrew Gowers, author of the eponymous report, in the FT today . Disses term extension of sound recording copyright, an...

Cyber(in)security roundup

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Producing the Macafee VCR makes you more than normally aware that every vendor and their (robo)dog , plus apparently most NGOs, produces a r...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Macafee Virtual Criminology Report 2008, and Predictions for 2009 in the IT Law World

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Pangloss is back in town (well, Edinburgh) after her jaunts to Israel and London, which culminated in a brief and rather bronchitic appearan...
Friday, November 28, 2008

3 Strikes and the Telecoms Package: What's Going On?

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I've been unable to keep up with the latest machinations following the pre vote leak earlier this week and the actual vote on Thursday,...
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Thursday, November 27, 2008

MySpace suicide bully found guilty of.. hacking???

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The Register reports that in this extremely bizarre case, Lorie Drew has been found guilty of unauthorised access to the MySpace website, ie...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Public sector implications of phishing

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It's funny how things creep up on you. A year ago e-government was still just another buzz word to me ; e-commerce yes; but do my public...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

3 Strikes..

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The story is now on OUT Law and El Reg (and of course ORG ). Hugh Hancock has set up a Facebook group to help campaign- go join! I'm a...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Ethical leaking?

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Just as we have long had a debate in digicircles about ethical hacking, do we now have to start having it about ethical online leaking? Thou...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Fighting Dustbin Hogs, the RIPA Way!

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In apparently lighter vein (though still serious stuff at root), that famed investigative journal , the Daily Mail!! has sparked controversy...