Internet provider Internode Systems has lashed out at Telstra over its newly adjusted wholesale broadband prices.
New Australian laws designed to crack down on Internet harassment and usage of the medium to advocate violence have been met with a cautious reaction from online civil libertarians.
A member of the advisory group charged with helping develop the new anti-spam legislation does not feel the final document goes far enough in punishing people found guilty of spamming.
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has listed use of ISPs as the government's censors as one of the top concerns in the Crimes Legislation Amendment Bill.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy this afternoon announced the names of six ISPs that will participate in the Federal Government's internet filter trial but the nation's largest ISPs are not on the list.
Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
Communications minister Stephen Conroy today announced the controversial web filtering blacklist will be scrapped and be replaced with a whitelist-based filtering regime, to be administered by viewer voting through a family-friendly digital TV-only show called 'The White List'.
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
Civil liberties organisation Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has dismissed a proposal to restrict access to Internet accounts to those that can satisfy a 100 point identity check as "ludicrous".
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Counter-terrorism adviser to four US presidents Richard Clarke discusses whether cyberterrorism is a misnomer or a real threat.
As ASIC commences civil proceedings against former One.Tel managing directors Jodee Rich, Bradley Keeling and Mark Silbermann, public pressure to make directors and executives personally pick up the tab for company failures may be rising, according to a survey.
Executives and employees alike are continuing to send inappropriate or revealing information via e-mail, despite high-profile cases highlighting the potential dangers.
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