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  • Jokester serious about taking on Microsoft

    Ken Belanger says he created a joke Pocket PC 17 years ago and is claiming a common-law trademark on the product--and seeking control of pocketpc.com.

  • Crypto research under fire in lawsuit

    A lawsuit over possibly fraudulent withdrawals from cash machines in London could gag academic research into the vulnerabilities of banks' cryptographic systems.

  • SCO wanted to gag Torvalds

    Unix company was gathering information to support a court order to silence individuals related to its open-source legal case against IBM.

  • Judge halts Defcon hacking speech

    A federal judge on Saturday in the US granted the Massachusetts transit authority's request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system.

  • Defcon subway hackers can talk

    The three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who have been barred by a court order from discussing subway card vulnerabilities are now free to say what they want.

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