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Does Gmail breach wiretap laws?

Does Gmail breach wiretap laws?Guess who Stewart Baker is?Stewart A. Baker was the National Security Agency's top lawyer from 1992-1994, where he promoted the key escrow system for the Clipper chip. EPIC, on the other hand, was a key opponent of the Clipper chip. It's curious that Declan McCullagh quotes...

Tags: E-mail providers, privacy group, Now Let, e-mail, Google Gmail, Stewart Baker, Declan McCullagh

Discussion threads 2004-05-04

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Mozilla moves closer to the desktop with 'Prism'

Mozilla has a blog post today indicating that WebRunner, the XUL-based application which just released version 0.7 and was meant as a way to give web applications their own window/desktop presence, has become Prism. Prism looks like it will enable greater desktop functionality much like Adobe AIR. The Mozilla labs...

Tags: Desktop, Web Application, Blog, Mozilla Corp., Prism, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-10-25

A startup is just an idea away

[Guest Blogger Stewart Mader, Atlassian - makers of Confluence and Jira. His blog can be found here.] I found this post from the Blogspotting blog, and just had to write about it. In it, Stephen Baker tells how he overheard...

Tags: Wiki, tool

Blog posts 2007-03-14

Report from Foo Camp -- goodness!

I spent the weekend at Science Foo Camp, cosponsored by O'Reilly and Google. Apart from the excellent food (of course!), there was also some excellent discussion in this mostly user-generated event. I personally generated a session on ethics; the users generating the content included Stewart Brand, Sol Katz,...

Tags: morality, ethics

Blog posts 2006-08-15

Homeland Security: Outlaw rootkits

A Homeland Security official speaking at the RSA conference suggested that regulation or legislation may be needed to deal with consumer abuses like the Sony Rootkit fiasco, News.com reports. "The recent Sony experience shows us that we need to be thinking about how we ensure...

Tags: Jonathan Frenkel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Blog posts 2006-02-17

Bush Administration to Sony: It's your intellectual property -- it's not your computer

Sony knew they were dead in the water when the Department of Homeland Security DHS admonished them on the CD rootkit scandal - at a Chamber of Commerce event on combating intellectual-property theft. According to Briand Krebs of the Washington Post the Department of Homeland Security's assistant secretary for policy,...

Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Sony Corp.

Blog posts 2005-11-12

DNS opens networks to data attacks

DNS opens networks to data attacksGuess we can't blame...Guess we can't blame Microsoft for this one. Let's blame Al Gore. He said he invented the internet anyway, and we gotta have a scapegoat. :pThis makes little sense if A DNS server...is listening on port 53. How does this software...

Tags: Domain names, Servers, NETWORKING, Apache Software Foundation, server, DNS server, lookup, DNS, network

Discussion threads 2004-07-31