September 29, 2003, 2:41 pm
Mark Rasch: The Subpoenas are Coming!:
The demand that journalists preserve their notes is being made under laws that require ISP’s and other “providers of electronic communications services” to preserve, for example, e-mails stored on their service, pending a subpoena, under a statute modified by the USA-PATRIOT Act.
The purpose of that law was to prevent the inadvertent destruction of ephemeral electronic records pending a subpoena. For example, you could tell an ISP that you were investigating a hacking case, and that they should preserve the audit logs while you ran to the local magistrate for a subpoena.
It was never intended to apply to journalist’s records.
September 25, 2003, 2:57 pm
What a headline.
As Dave Barry would say,
“I am not making this up”:
The Register: KaZaA sues RIAA for copyright infringement
«
… Sharman says the RIAA has distributed versions of KaZaA Lite with warning messages to potential infringers, which it deems “monopolistic and conspiratorial” behavior. In July a Judge nixed an attempt by Sharman Networks to stop the distribution of RIAA-flavored KaZaA software using Antitrust legislation. That failed, but this time it’s trying again…
»
September 25, 2003, 12:52 pm
September 25, 2003, 11:56 am
Geer, Bace, Gutmann, Metzger, Pfleeger, Quarterman, Schneier:
CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly (PDF)
[via
CCIA
(Computer & Communications Industry Association, advocating
“open markets, open systems,
open networks, and full, fair, and open competition”)]
Note:
Author Dan Geer got fired by @Stake for publishing this report.
September 23, 2003, 3:26 pm
September 23, 2003, 7:32 am
OK, everybody in the world is linking to it, so this isn’t new, but it’s a provocative note: Philip Greenspun’s Weblog: Java is the SUV of programming tools.
Make sure you
read the comments.
September 23, 2003, 7:16 am
September 16, 2003, 9:25 am
Spammers use Ottawa hotels to send e-mail:
A handful of hotels in the Ottawa area have unwittingly become the instruments of e-mail spammers, who use the hotels’ high-speed Internet access services to send unsolicited electronic mail touting products and services.
[via
Techdirt]
September 16, 2003, 9:14 am
Dann Sheridan’s Weblog:
I don’t think most people understand the implications of running wireless networks. While sitting here in Starbucks, I have access to the shares on the CVS pharmacy file server next door containing their POS system, prescription system, and a database server containing who knows what. I also have access to ten workstation on the network who are sharing the c-drives. I probably even have access back into their corporate network…
This is a perfect example of how, as things are becoming more open, individuals can keep up and protect themselves while organizations languish in the wake.
