IPRED used to demand subscriber info for the first time Cable cos now arguing against neutrality for their 1st amendment rights Another Digital Economy Bill clause to worry about Global, open letter against ACTA Share

WPA cracking in the cloud Security in syndicated, federated systems Malware using Amazon’s EC2 for command and control The role of worse practices Remote execution flaw in older versions of Thunderbird Share

This is news cast 200, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are attackers improve on techniques to use Twitter to conceal their efforts and malware found in a Gnome screen saver. In this week’s news a massive class...

Glyn Moody’s analysis of this story seems pretty spot on to me. First, in what sense is providing more access to the visually impaired not compatible with US copyright laws? The proponents of this change have gone out of their way to make sure that...

One of the barriers to wide spread file sharing of books is the slow and labored adoption of ebooks by the industry and the cost, both in terms of labor and material, for digitizing print editions. As publishers experiment with committing the same...