Shadow Minister for Communications Nick Minchin has called upon the Federal Government to end its ISP-level filtering trial "farce".
Whistleblower website Wikileaks has published in full the Vodafone/2degrees story censored earlier this week by the New Zealand Commerce Commission.
New Zealand's Commerce Commission has invoked the country's Commerce Act to censor an article which revealed a deal Vodafone had reportedly struck with mobile newcomer 2degrees.
A number of Australian children's civil liberties and other groups have launched a significant protest against the Federal Government's plans to censor the internet through a filtering scheme.
The Australia's Classification Board website, which determines Australia's film, literature and media classifications, appears to have been hacked by protesters against its regime.
Commercial sensitivities ride roughshod over the NZ public's right to be informed.
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If you ran a software company and an independent security researcher contacted you with proof that your product contains security vulnerabilities, how would you react?
From dead parrots to ACCC lawsuits, the National Broadband Network and Fake Stephen Conroy, it's like Telstra is lost in T.S. Eliot's epic poem The Wasteland.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.
Charles Cooper says the tech industry should move beyond its take-it or leave-it approach to trade and human rights.
Always a contentious topic, we look at server-based Internet content filters and some of the reasons why your organisation might want one, or not.
If you weren't a fan of the previous MacBook Air, nothing will change your mind here. We can only hope the next revision is a little more feature-laden.
Adobe's latest incarnation of Acrobat is top of the line, highly featured software. Just make sure you need all the bells and whistles before you pay the AU$999 price tag.
AVG Internet Security 8.0 provides strong protection against malicious Web sites, but its full-system scans sometimes tax system resources and produce false positives.
Always a contentious topic, we look server-based Internet content filters and some of the reasons why your organisation might want one, or not.
Just how good are web filtering packages? We put eight of the best head to head in our Australian review.
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