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NJ court: IP-related info is private: Someone broke into the website of Jersey Diesel, changed the physical address listed on the site to a nonexistent address and changed the login password. Who? Owner Tim Wilson thought he knew. Shirley Read was an employee who had just returned from disability and whom Wilson had just argued with....; Tags: Subpoena, New Jersey, Comcast Corp., IP, IP Address, U.S. Supreme Court, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Technology, Networking, Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Judge slams FBI fishing expedition at Amazon: How would you feel if you bought a book through Amazon and then found out your book purchasing records had been turned over to the FBI? Would it make you think twice about shopping at Amazon in the future? Amazon think so, and it turns out, so does a federal...; Tags: Subpoena, FBI, Customer, Amazon.com Inc., Book Buyer, Government, Federal Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2007-11-28
Senate issues subpoenas on NSA warrantless wiretapping: The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney's office and the Justice Department after what the panel's chairman called "stonewalling of the worst kind" of efforts to investigate the National Security Agency's policy of wiretapping without warrants.Senator Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of...; Tags: Congress, Intelligence, Privacy; Blog posts 2007-06-28
School files defamation claim against Wikipedia: The vagaries of free speech on the Internet are being challenged once again in a case against Wikipedia for anonymously publishing critical comments about a private Catholic high school in Omaha, Nebraska, reports eSchool News. The school, VJ and Angela Skutt Catholic High School, is suing Wikipedia over the...; Tags: Wiki, Internet service providers (ISPs), subpoena, Wikipedia; Blog posts 2006-07-27
Justice Dept. subpoenas go far beyond search companies: The Justice Dept. has sent out to subpoenas to far more companies than Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and AOL. In fact, Information Week reports, at least 34 companies have received subpoenas from Justice as part of their discovery for a lawsuit challenging the Child Online Protection Act. Other major companies receiving...; Tags: subpoena; Blog posts 2006-03-31

Judge denies DoJ access to searches: Judge James Ware has granted the DoJ access to 50,000 URLs from Google's database, but denied access to any search queries according to an official statement from Google on their blog. Originally the subpoena requested that Google provide billions of URLs and two months of search queries performed by...; Tags: Google Inc., JUDGE; Blog posts 2006-03-17
EXCLUSIVE: here's the complete AMD Skype subpoena: Larger images at this link. Earlier this week, chip-maker AMD served Skype with a subpoena, demanding more information about what AMD views as an unfair a deal between Skype and AMD rival Intel that lets 10 individuals participate in Skype calls on some Intel-powered PCs. On the other hand,...; Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Skype Technologies S.A.; Blog posts 2006-03-01
In civil and criminal cases, Internet subpoenas are business as usual: In civil and criminal cases, Internet subpoenas are business as usualWe've got to amend the laws, regardless of how Bush feelsIt's obviously in the best interest of all freedom-loving Americans, whether progressives, conservatives, or libertarians, to push Congress to enact far tighter restrictions on these subpoenas, lest we all become...; Tags: subpoena, Internet; Discussion threads 2006-02-06
Google's resistance more about trade secrets than privacy: When all your competitors hand over their customer's search data to the government, it doesn't take a Ph.D. in PR to figure out there's a certain publicity value in standing tall. After all, the blogosphere was knocking itself over trying to sing the praises of Google as Marshall Will Kane....; Tags: Google Inc.; Blog posts 2006-01-23
EFF: 'Annoy' law could damage right to anonymity: If the new "annoy" provision of the Telecommunication Act goes unchallenged, says EFF attorney Kurt Opsahl, it opens very substantial restrictions on Internet users' First Amendment rights. (Note that the law excludes "Internet computer services,"so the concern is chiefly with VoIP services. The law makes illegal anonymous communications ...; Tags: INTERNET, Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, subpoena, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Blog posts 2006-01-16

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Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters: Just talked to Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive about their successful settlement with the FBI of a lawsuit over a National Security Letter. The FBI had demanded personal information on a user; the Archive replied with a lawsuit challenging the propriety of the NSL. As part of the settlement,...; Tags: Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Library, Brewster Kahle, Cookbook, National Security Letter, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-08
NJ court: IP-related info is private: NJ court: IP-related info is privateOops!Seems to me that the cops would not have had any trouble getting a warrant. An affidavit from the owner should have been good enough.RE: NJ court: IP-related info is privateWhile I applaud NJ on their privacy protections of their citizens, I would argue...; Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Network technology, NETWORKING, IP, Internet Service Provider; Discussion threads 2008-04-22
Targeted spear phishing attacks: Targeted spear phishing attacksFederal Subpoena email spamIt is kind of a whaling attack targeting big fishes in corporate offices like CEO’s, top executives and managers.“This is one of the best phish e-mails I've seen in the past 6 years” quoted by Mr. Steve Kirsch, a well known Silicon Valley entrepreneurRemember,...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, SECURITY, e-mail, phishing, Abaca Email Protection Gateway, attack; Discussion threads 2008-04-17
Targeted spear phishing attacks: A colleague of mine, Dave Wong, from Ernst & Young's Advanced Security Center in New York, pointed me to a really interesting article on targeted spear phishing attacks by John Markoff of the New York Times.Â Â Phishing has been really interesting to me lately, as I've seen a wave of discussions,...; Tags: E-mail, Attack, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-04-16
Is Apple good or evil?: There has been a lot of talk lately about how is Apple becoming more like Microsoft and turning evil, but is it really the case? Personally I've known that Apple was evil since they tried to litigate me out of business and subpoena three years worth of my email, but...; Tags: Apple Inc., Public Relations, Web Browsers, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-03-27
Are feds involved in bid to undo state open govt law?: Did you know that there are more than 40 so-called Fusion Centers across the U.S.? A Fusion Center is a top-secret site where federal and state officials meet to share, analyze and redistribute information on "all hazards, all threats," as Ars Technica explains. Here's a map of...; Tags: Ars Technica, EPIC, Law, Fusion Center, Government, Homeland Security, Federal Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-03-24
House nixes telecom immunity, votes to investigate abuses: The House just passed a FISA bill without immunity for telecom companies! The White House is pissed off: The White House circulated a statement after the vote calling it a "a significant step backward in defending our country against terrorism" that was...; Tags: White House, Immunity, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-03-14
Police Blotter: Armed robbers nabbed through text messages: Police Blotter: Armed robbers nabbed through text messagesMore Stupid Criminals...ntWhile criminals, they do have a point.I find that both U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Martone and the 9th Circuit's decision in the McCreary trial to be in gross violation of the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To wit, "The...; Tags: Vertical industries, text messaging, robber, Police Blotter, government, warrant; Discussion threads 2008-02-26
Final thoughts on my Gmail fiasco: I finally received an email response from Google relating to my disabled account Friday afternoon. It was apologetic and somewhat unsatisfying, but at least gave me a clue as to what happened: Thank you for your report. We sincerely apologize for our delayed response and...; Tags: Google Gmail, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-02-24
Will you trust your medical information to Google?: The Cleveland Clinic has announced a partnership with Google that will essentially be a soft launch of the long-awaited Google Health personal health record service. Privacy concerns may not be too far behind. According to a statement, Google will help the Cleveland Clinic to offer personal health...; Tags: Google Inc., Interoperability, Goal, Personal Health Record, Cleveland Clinic, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-21