British business leaders complain about the climate – for startups
In an article entitled “Business leaders say climate for startups worse than ten years ago”, the Guardian points out that, according to the British Chambers of Commerce, “British business thinks [...]
Beware of the new Storm Worm variant
Yahoo!News warns that “[a] huge virus surge of a new Storm Worm variant is flooding e-mail inboxes and evading many antivirus programs. In my tests of 31 programs, only four [...]
As cyber-crime is becoming more sophisticated, the FTC threatens spyware distributors with prison sentences
InfoWorld reports that “[t]he latest research report from McAfee's Avert Labs paints a frightening picture for enterprise IT administrators and end-users, predicting continued maturation of cyber-crime and the technological means [...]
Can we bore impatient spammers out of business?
The Washington Post reports that “[a] Canadian company has developed new technology to capitalize on that impatience [of spammers] to cut the volume of unwanted e-mail messages flooding the Internet.” [...]
Lessig on Viacom v. YouTube: All Fiction and No Fact
Simply put, Professor Lessig’s recent post on Viacom v. YouTube is, at best, misleading about the case and the DMCA. This is really no surprise because as long as he [...]
Perens Invokes the “Nuh Uh!” Defense, Calls Us Names
Following up on a piece he wrote about my recent GPLv3 analyses, Peter Galli interviewed free software advocate Bruce Perens to get his response to the our 20 pages of [...]