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RSS obsceneApple allows 'bad language' Twitter app on iPhone
News In an email on Tuesday, app developer Loren Brichter said Apple quoted this part of the company's guidelines as a reason for the decision: "Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive, or... [11 Mar 2009]
Photos: A day in the life of a virus hunter
Photo Coders even leave obscene messages aimed at security companies like Symantec and suggest names that security analysts should call their malware hidden in the code. Symantec threat researcher Candid Wüest's job is to rip... [09 Oct 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...
Comment Well, as a young engineer I remember spending obscene amounts of company money for things we now all own and take for granted. Written in a coffee shop in Ipswich UK and dispatched via a company wi-fi service. [14 May 2008]
Brunel University uses spam filter to fight cyber bullying
Case Study In 2005 a young Korean student complained she was being harassed by someone sending out obscene emails in Korean using freemail accounts containing her name on the internal college email network. Brunel University has... [11 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Data breach row, hotel iMac, wi-fi piggybacking: yay or nay?
Comment Would all of these people be happy if a broadband piggybacker downloaded, illegal and/ or obscene material using their connection? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech... [22 Nov 2007]
Victory for bloggers in libel ruling
News Earlier court rulings had established that Section 230 of that statute shields companies such as AOL and eBay from such liability, provided that they make good faith efforts to restrict access to material that could be considered... [21 Nov 2006]
Fresh DVLA porn email probe: 65 investigated
News The rest are either offensive or obscene. An ongoing investigation into the distribution of pornographic content in emails at the DVLA has led to a further 65 staff facing disciplinary action. The investigation centres... [31 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Yes, China is different
Comment In my own country I can remember in the recent past when commercial radio and the Citizens Band were outlawed, when the obscene publications act prevented the publication of Lady Chatterly's Lover, and so on. [07 Aug 2006]
Consumer protection a DIY job on the net
News Self-regulatory bodies in the UK include TrustUK for ecommerce vendors, the Internet Service Providers Association (Ispa), the Internet Crime Forum and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) which cracks down on child abuse images and... [21 Jun 2006]
Google 'profits from child porn', lawsuit claims
News Jeffrey Toback, a Democratic representative in New York's Nassau County Legislature, charged in a complaint filed on Thursday that Google has been taking in billions of dollars by allowing child pornography and "other... [08 May 2006]
Democrats rekindle porn domain debate
News That material, according to the bill, includes any "communication", image, article, recording or other "obscene" matter, including actual or simulated sexual acts and "lewd exhibition of the genitals or post-pubescent... [20 Mar 2006]
Online child abuse - a decade on and the IWF reports progress
News The UK can be proud of its approach to tackling images of child abuse online as well as other criminally obscene and racist material, according to DTI minister Alun Michael, speaking at the launch of the Internet Watch... [09 Mar 2006]
MPs move to ban "extreme" online pornography
News The current law (the Obscene Publications Act 1959) prevents the distribution of images of sexual abuse in the UK but does not apply to foreign websites or other international distribution channels. The government is... [30 Aug 2005]
Leader: Why the UK can't defeat obscene web content
Leader Mark Herbert, founder of start-up managed security service provider intY, said in an email to silicon.com such proposed measures fall well short of the mark, adding that the government would be better served encouraging UK ISPs to solve... [15 Aug 2005]
O2 workers reject "insulting" pay offer
News This obscene state of affairs is totally unacceptable," he said in a statement. UK mobile operator O2 is facing the threat of strike action after workers voted overwhelmingly to reject the company's "insulting" pay offer. [02 Aug 2005]
