Do RIAA Snoops Need P.I. Licenses? - Via Threat Level: By now, we all know how the Recording Industry Association of America nabs alleged file sharers, more than 20,000 lawsuits and counting: Hired snoops from MediaSentry -- aka SafeNet -- log onto Kazaa, Limewire or other file sharing programs, peer ...

Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole - Via Threat Level: Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. The tactic ...

More on BGP Attacks -- Updated - Via Threat Level: There was a lot of additional information I wanted to include in my article about intercepting internet traffic through the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), but there wasn't space to include it. So I'll put it in this separate post. First of all, you ...

Required Reading for "User-Generated Content" Sites: Io Group v. Veoh - Via EFF.org Updates: In an important ruling handed down yesterday, a federal district court threw out a copyright infringement suit brought by adult video producer Io Group against Veoh, concluding that the video hosting site qualifies ...

I met with a colleague recently who wants to take his project and create a standard on the web that actually gets adopted. We talked for a long time, and when we finished up I pointed him at a paper that had a huge impact on me, called “In Praise of Evolvable Systems” by Clay Shirky. This paper was ...

Has pensado alguna vez ¿qué pasaría con toda tu información digital si falleces? Aunque regularmente no nos gusta hablar del tema, es necesario tomar medidas para que cuando faltemos, exista una persona encargada de tener todos los accesos a nuestra información para evitar que todo lo que hemos logrado ...

ITRC: Breaches Blast ’07 Record - Via PogoWasRIght - Privacy News Headlines: With slightly more than four months left to go for 2008, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has sent out a press release saying that it has already compiled 449 breaches– more than its total for all of 2007. As they ...

Terror watchlist "upgrade" is "imploding," legislator says - Via Ars Technica : The database used to produce the government's terror watch lists is "crippled by technical flaws," according to the chairman of a House technology oversight subcommittee—and the system designed to replace it may be even ...

Preliminary Congressional Investigation Finds Watch Lists Plagued with Systemic Flaws - Via ACLU - Privacy: ACLU calls for lists to be scrapped and for DHS to approach airline security in reasonable and effective manner FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: (202) 675-2312, media@dcaclu.org or (212) 549-2646, ...

I’m a fan of Groklaw, but like any long-running soap opera, I tune out for weeks - okay, months - at a time and then check back in. I love the copyright news and litigation insider bits, but sometimes, unlike an ongoing soap opera, I don’t know what is being talked about. I can’t catch up. Lately, there ...