News (22)

  • HP backs down on copyright warning

    Hewlett-Packard has backed away from legal threats it made against security analysts who publicised flaws in the company's software.

  • Feds target P2P child porn

    A coalition of federal law enforcement agencies announced a new push against child pornography on file-swapping networks, citing undercover operations ongoing since the northern fall of 2003.

  • Vint Cerf: Truth on the Net is up to you

    Internet guru Vint Cerf has called on citizens to accept responsibility for determining the accuracy and truth of information published on the Internet.

  • Arrest may spark review of copyright law

    He's an unlikely poster child for a movement to change a major US law. But the plight of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov is again shining the spotlight on a controversial law designed to expand copyright protections into the digital age.

  • Putting a kind face on copyright battles

    In a world where cops warn that programmers are set to unleash a "Pearl Harbor" of Internet attacks, crackers don monikers such as "Mafiaboy," and malicious pranksters unleash viruses named "I Love You" and "Melissa," it's becoming difficult to paint hackers as sympathetic characters.

Features and Case Studies (2)

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    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.

  • Cyberlaw: Future's pretty fuzzy

    The state of Internet law was in flux in 2001. Lawyer Doug Isenberg says that if any lesson has emerged, it's that the same thing will probably remain true for 2002.

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