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    The Australian Communication Authority is expected to release guidelines to standardise information about Internet service offerings that ISPs present to consumers, early next week.

  • Is your email really yours?

    A recent case in Canada has highlighted some of the privacy flaws associated with email services.

  • Music industry, Internet users headed for showdown

    The launch soon of a new code of conduct governing relations between law enforcement agencies and ISPs will emphasise the growing gulf between the music industry and the Internet community over online copyright-breaching activities.

  • Privacy legislation sparks local security spike

    Australian managed security providers (MSPs) are looking forward to healthy growth in 2002 as the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 begins to force the hand of business of all sizes.

  • EFA: anti-terror laws weaken e-mail privacy

    Australian police will be able to exploit legal ambiguities in Federal anti-terror legislation that could weaken e-mail privacy protection, according to Electronic Frontiers Australia.

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    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has welcomed "improvements" in ISP filtering technologies, but will a broad-scale roll-out make ISPs a thief's favourite target?

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  • Privacy legislation sparks local security spike

    Australian managed security providers (MSPs) are looking forward to healthy growth in 2002 as the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 begins to force the hand of business of all sizes.

  • The war on file sharing hits Australia

    Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?

  • Exetel boss bets against NBN and Quigley

    Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it Telstra and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.

  • Just what is behind the iiNet case?

    Landmark Federal Court legal action by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) against ISP iiNet highlights the competing interests of ISPs and rights holders in respect of unauthorised filesharing, and should expose the inability of the Australian Copyright Act to satisfactorily resolve the issue.

  • Q&A: Clearswift CTO

    In this interview, Clearswift chief technology officer Alf Pilgrim discusses rising spam volumes, the Australian government's plan to filter the internet, and why IT can't play nanny any more for the business it serves.

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  • First Take: Zone Labs ZoneAlarm Pro 4.0

    Due out later this year, ZoneAlarm Pro 4.0 promises changes that are much more subtle than ZAP 3.0, but no less powerful.

  • McAfee Internet Security 2009

    McAfee Internet Security 2009 does a reasonable job, but it also leaves room for improvement.

  • Belkin ADSL Modem With Built-In Wireless Router

    This all-in-one solution from Belkin incorporates an ADSL modem, 4-port router and an 802.11g wireless access point suitable for a multi-PC home or SOHO user.

  • WebEx Meeting Center

    Although it's difficult to master, WebEx Meeting Center's slick conferencing tools are an effective alternative to face-to-face conferences.

  • The laptops that come in from the cold

    For those organisation who lose hundreds of thousands dollars worth of laptops to thieves each year, the humiliation of the loss is possibly as infuriating a burden to bare as the financial costs associated with it. However these organisations can assuage some of their distress knowing that their problems are shared by one of the world's most powerful law enforcement agencies. In May, thieves reduced the size of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's laptop fleet by 182, in one operation. If the FBI can't keep its laptops safe from thieves who can?

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