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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A code of conduct for bloggers?
The International Herald Tribune reports that “a few prominent figures in high technology are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the [...]
Groklaw posters tie themselves in knots
I’ve been reading comments here on Groklaw about the great ODF vs. OOXML ‘war’ between IBM and Microsoft. But what really has me scratching [...]
More and more countries are censoring the Internet
According to Yahoo!News, Turkey is the latest country to censor the Internet. In a worrying development, “[a] parliamentary commission approved a proposal Thursday allowing [...]
