Today’s flurry of posts is the product of two weeks of focus elsewhere: grading hundreds of papers, cooking for Thanksgiving, spending time with friends and family. Now it is back to clearing out the inbox. . .
Internet Attacks Are Growing More Potent and Complex presages the type of cyber 9/11 that Jonathan Zittrain has been [...]
This reaction piece delves briefly into one of the issues raised by Lori Drew’s conviction (see post below): “Is lying about one’s identity on the Internet now a crime?” Common sense says no but that’s what lawyers mean by “bad facts make bad law.”
Be careful what you agree to when you click “I agree.”
Sphere: Related [...]
A Los Angeles jury convicted Lori Drew of three misdemeanors for her role in the events leading up to the death of Megan Meier. . It did not convict her of accessing a computer without authorization to inflict emotional distress, a felony, or of conspiracy. Drew could receive up to one year in prison and [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
I received this news alert today from GigaLaw:
“The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide plummeted after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations engaged in spam activity was taken offline. Experts say the precipitous drop-off in spam comes from Internet providers unplugging McColo Corp., a hosting [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Does playing violent video games increase tendencies toward violence? Researched published today in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, states that it does. As reported here, “[c]hildren and teenagers who play violent video games show increased physical aggression months afterward.” The research is based on two studies performed in Japan and one [...]
Thursday, October 30, 2008
I have a Facebook account. I created the account about five or six years ago because I had read about Facebook while reading materials for my Internet law course. Social networking/Web 2.0 was the new thing and I wanted to understand it. Viewing the site required creating an account, limited at the time to those [...]
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The governor of Kentucky, Steve Beshear, is cracking down on Internet gambling sites, which he refers to as “leeches on our communities.” (See story.) The governor filed a lawsuit in Kentucky state court in an attempt to force gambling sites to prevent access to Kentucky residents. To get the sites’ attention he asked the court [...]
With Security at Risk, A Push to Patch the Web in today’s NY Times reminded me about OpenDNS, a free domain name system service. The article, which deals with a serious security flaw discovered in the operation of the domain name system earlier this year by Dan Kaminsky, an Internet security expert, notes that individuals [...]
A few weeks ago a French court ordered eBay to pay about $60 million in damages to Louis Vuitton and other manufacturers of luxury bags, finding that eBay failed to take adequate steps to prevent sales of counterfeit merchandise on its site. This week a U.S. court handed eBay a victory in a similar lawsuit [...]
