CyberLaw Blog

Archive for June 11th, 2008

Following on from yesterday’s announcement here is a review article.

N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access:

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that Verizon Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint would ’shut down major sources of online child pornography.’

What Cuomo didn’t say is that his agreement with broadband providers means that they will broadly curb customers’ access to Usenet–the venerable pre-Web …

(Via The Iconoclast.)

Interesting research, worth reading..

How safe is instant messaging? A security and privacy survey:

The number of interested parties eager to listen in on your online conversations, including what you type through instant messaging, has never been higher.

It’s trivial to monitor unencrypted wireless networks and snatch IM passwords as they flow through the ether. Broadband providers and their business partners are enthusiastically peeking …

(Via The Iconoclast.)

‘Internet freedom’ bill targeting China cooperation faces rough road:

Editor’s note: Updated at 5:50 a.m. PDT with comment from Yahoo.

A proposed federal law that would slap extensive regulations on technology companies doing business in China and other nations deemed to be unreasonably ‘Internet-restricting’ is facing an uncertain future due to opposition from the Bush administration …

(Via The Iconoclast.)