Two female Yale law students are finally learning the identities of their online taunters in a case raising questions about how to deal with anonymous speech on the net and whether the courts are the right tool for clearing one's name.
Facts from IBM:In a quirk of fate, I met someone from IBM who was directly involved in implementing the wiretapping system that is all over the news. It is much worse than the news would suggest.As some have reported, this is definitely not just NSA. The bidding for the technology to do this project was conducted by members of the FBI and the CIA. During the proposal process, IBM was told explicitly that they were to answer questions, not ask them.One of the most noteworthy comments was that the Government had specified 60 Terabytes of monthly storage for digital versions of conversations. MONTHLY!
An undersea cable carrying Internet traffic was cut off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, officials said Friday, the third loss of a line carrying Internet and telephone traffic in three days.
The Pirate Bay recently featured in an exhibition about online crime, run by the Swedish police - even before their trial has begun. Pirate Bay’s Brokep has had enough of being the punch bag of the Swedish authorities: “It’s slander,” he says “Authorities are not allowed to engage in political opinionation.”
The nation's top spy, Michael McConnell, thinks the threat of cyberarmageddon! is so great that the U.S. government should have unfettered and warrantless access to U.S. citizens' Google search histories,
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge on Friday allowed whistle-blower site WikiLeaks to resume operation in the United States, a week after ordering its U.S. hosting company and domain registrar
Dave Gaubatz is no stranger to controversy. The former Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent maintains he found Saddam's WMD bunkers, but that the U.S. military declined to follow
The book Grand Theft Childhood got a good bit of attention upon its release, and the authors are back discussing reactions to the book, as well as issues that
Former US Marine Eric W. Hall went missing last Sunday after leaving a relative's house in Deep Creek, Florida. According to his family he had been suffering from post-traumatic
The European Union's top justice official proposed plans Friday to fingerprint and electronically record the entry and exit of all visitors to the 27-nation bloc.
Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos writes: Folks often joke about the blood-sucking parasites that infect politics, but the gibes about politicians and lobbyists are usually just that — jokes. Yet the charge gets uncomfortably close to being literal when discussing former South Dakota lieutenant governor and potential Senate candidate Steve Kirby. Following the sale of his prominent Sioux Falls family’s surety bond company, Kirby branched out into more exotic business terrain when he founded Bluestern Venture Capital in 1992. Among Bluestern’s portfolio companies was a Massachusetts-based biotech firm called Collagenesis — a company whose business model couldn’t have been more foreign to the stolid world of South Dakota surety bonding. Collagenesis specialized in processing donated skin off cadavers into cosmetic surgery products, and was subject to a blistering five-part investigative series by the Orange County Register beginning on April 17, 2000. “Burn victims lie waiting in hospitals as nurses scour the country for skin to cover their wounds, even though skin is in plentiful supply for plastic surgeon...
From our friends at TechCrunch, some accounts of horror stories in dealing with Facebook disabling some users accounts for seemingly strange reasons. Disinformation is on Facebook, check out our group or if you love us, become a
50,000-volt stun guns were introduced in a very limited fashion amongst British law enforcement five years ago. However, after a 12-month experiment by ten English and Welsh forces, the U.K. government has floated the idea of providing “all officers” with tasers…welcome to the future.
In a press conference held on June 11, U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf has made public that his office computers were hacked in August 2006 and that the FBI and other officials informed him that the attack came from inside China. They got everything,
Ryan Singel writes on Wired's Threat Level:Federal agents at the border do not need any reason to search through travelers' laptops, cell phones or digital cameras for evidence of crimes, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, extending the government's power to look through belongings like suitcases at the border to electronics.The unanimous three-judge decision reverses a lower court finding that digital devices were
Mark Klein, the retired ATT engineer who stepped forward with the technical documents at the heart of the anti-wiretapping case against ATT, is furious at the Senate's vote on Wednesday
A large BitTorrent tracker dealing only in documentaries has been shutdown after an anti-piracy company wrongfully identified content being tracked by the site. The 150,000 member site, which has had just “one mildly upset” copyright-related email in 4 years of operation, is moving to a new host.
101 Dumbest Moments in Business. Ah, what a dumb year it was! Fortune chose the absolutely dumbest of the dumb that the gods of fate and humor delivered into our laps - and yours - this past year.
The Hacktivists is a one-hour documentary on cultural subversion in the digital age. Powerful new types of protest on the internet reveal an emerging movement that’s leaderless, global, anarchic and chaotic.