court in comment and analysis
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment In January this year, 20-year-old Jeanson James Ancheta pleaded guilty in a Californian court to charges that he had broken into government computers and taken control of them for purposes of fraud. Gone are the days of simple worms and viruses. [12 Apr 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.03.06
Round-Up Rather than shoot or stab him or in fact do anything else remotely sensible they decide to smuggle a few hundred poisonous snakes on to the plane carrying him to court and release them in the hope that one of them will conspire to bite him. [31 Mar 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.03.06
Round-Up On and on with the government chasing victory on Centre Court and the Lords' returns frustrating but not dominating the arguments of Charles Clarke. The Lords pick the spin perfectly and send it back ferociously, though spectators fearing whiplash... [24 Mar 2006]
Leader: Data protection watchdog needs more bite
Leader If we want what is effectively nothing more than a small claims court for data protection disputes that's fine. Several cases this week have once again put the role of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) into the spotlight, and raised the... [13 Jan 2006]
Leader: Is justice really being meted out to spammers?
Leader What part those last two facts played in ensuring Francis-Macrae got his day in court is unclear but no doubt considerable. This past week has seen three high-profile cases hit the headlines in which spammers have been sentenced to prison. [21 Nov 2005]
Leader: Why we still applaud the idea of 'Get Safe Online'
Leader By putting the ball in their court, Get Safe Online could have injected more momentum into a trend which is already seeing ISPs accepting they will have to embrace security, not just as a value-add or as a token gesture but as a business necessity. [27 Oct 2005]
Criminal IT: Unlocking the power of computer crime evidence
Comment Perhaps the most important element, though, are those situations in which the question of computer-derived evidence is important - covered in laws such as the Police and Criminal Evidence (Pace) and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Acts... [19 Oct 2005]
Richard Stallman
AS Profile Outspoken as ever, he's a vocal critic of George W Bush and Tony Blair, and pet issues include legalising P2P file sharing, opposing UK ID cards and even boycotting Harry Potter books (because of a court order forbidding Canadians from reading... [23 Sep 2005]
Ren Zhengfei
AS Profile Cisco sued the Chinese company for intellectual property infringement in 2003 in a case that was recently settled out of court. Chinese telecoms and networking giant Huawei Technologies is taking on established IT industry heavyweights such as... [23 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.09.05
Round-Up A court filing of a sworn statement from a former Microsoft exec added that Ballmer said he thinks "f***ing Eric Schmidt is a f***ing pussy". Oh dear, oh dear, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been at it again with reports suggesting Bill Gates... [09 Sep 2005]
Criminal IT: Wanted - better laws for cyber crimes
Comment This is particularly important for those aspects of the laws which are relevant to the use and abuse of computers - a technology that was certainly not anticipated by the decisions of any court before the last 30 years, making it very much the... [18 Aug 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.08.05
Round-Up Microsoft has turned the legal screw on former spam king Scott Richter in a court case in New York. Richter understandably baulked earlier this year when faced with the prospect of a day in court with Bill and his screeching army of flying legal... [12 Aug 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Borrowing Wi-Fi is not a crime
Comment If I am to go to court for using freely available and unprotected Wi-Fi, then my use of shop lights, toilets, shop awnings and someone's drive should qualify me as a criminal too. Recent court cases in the UK, Canada and the US have garnered... [01 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: IP disputes wholly unsatisfactory
Comment Of course the big companies know this and understand that their claims of infringement stand a good chance of never being tested in court. It's just one more reason why software patents kill innovation, says Martin Brampton. [19 Jul 2005]
Leader: We are all guilty of letting hackers run free
Leader For example, last week the 19-year-old who wrote the Sasser email virus - which caused havoc and huge financial damage to businesses worldwide last year - escaped with a 21-month suspended sentence from a German court. [14 Jul 2005]
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