July 31, 2005 - August 06, 2005 Archive
August 03, 2005
Risks Digest Celebrates 20 Years of Publication
From the Strategic Defense Initiative to RFIDs in social security cards, Peter Neumann's newsletter keeps spotting the flaws.
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Posted at 11:57 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Coloc-lateral damage
When ISP Telus blocked its customers from viewing the website of the labor union it was fighting, it also blocked 766 other sites using the same IP address -- including a breast cancer charity.
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Posted at 11:56 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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August 02, 2005
Copycrime
The European Parliament is considering criminal prosecution for copyright infringement. Is it Europe's shift for crazy laws this week?
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Posted at 01:12 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Smuggling the DMCA into CAFTA
Declan McCullagh with a pithy piece showing how free trade agreements can be used to spread bad law around the world.
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Posted at 01:12 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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International IP
A Big List Against a Bigger List
Activists are gathering names in an EU-wide petition launched this week to protest planned data-retention regulations.
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Posted at 01:12 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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August 01, 2005
Skilled in the Art of Push Polls
Screenshots of a curious poll by Microsoft regarding pursuing RedHat for alleged patent violations.
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Posted at 04:37 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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By Reading This License You Agree to Get Scared
Sun engineer reads his own company's license terms, gets freaked out enough to persuade Sun lawyers to drop it.
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Posted at 04:37 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Solution to Government Inefficiencies: More Red Tape
Senator Ensign introduces a bill that would make muni broadband more, not less, complicated to get right.
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Posted at 04:37 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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The Person Whose Company Dies With the Most Patents, Wins
Historian Randal Stross on Microsoft's hunger for software patents.
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Posted at 04:37 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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