FTC Chair Calls for Minimalist Spam Laws.
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission told a conference audience yesterday that current anti-spam legislation being considered by the US legislature is in adequate and may cause more harm than good. Speaking at the Aspen Summit, a gathering of policymakers and technology executives hosted by technology...

Cyberspace's legal visionary: Lawrence Lessig on the fate of copyrights and computer networks in the digital future.
FEW INTELLECTUALS HAVE influenced the way people think about cyberspace as much as Lawrence Lessig. His first book, Code and Other Laws OF Cyberspace (Basic Books, 1999), was described by one critic as "a direct assault on the libertarian perspective that informs much Internet policy debate." At the same...

Spam Tastes Gross: Degradation -- and illegality -- in your in-box.
It's a disgusting topic, and one that most people would rather turn away from -- which is just how the pornographers like it, of course. They would rather we just shuddered and threw up our hands. This goes for all pornography, but I am concerned for the moment with...

The spam wars: how should the Internet deal with junk mail?
JUNK E-MAIL is like seasickness: If you don't get it, you don't really understand how bad it is. In 1997, when I proposed my first article on spam, the English editor I approached insisted it was an "American problem." One of his colleagues and I convinced him to take...

BorderWare Expands Channel Partner Reach to Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises Worldwide.
TORONTO, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- BorderWare Technologies, a global vendor of messaging security, privacy and compliance solutions, today announced the expansion of its well established and proven Global Partner Program with new features for the small and mid-sized enterprise (SME) market. The updated benefits of the program include a...

Harlot's Web.
Why and how the government should regulate the Internet JUDY FISCHER WAS FRUSTRATED BY HOW hard it can be to tell the good guys from the bad guys on the World Wide Web. So she decided to start an organization called the Web Assurance Bureau that would...

The law and economics of software security.
INTRODUCTION I AN OVERVIEW OF SOFTWARE SECURITY A. What is Software System Security? 1. Types and Methods of Attack 2. Types of Damage B. Identifying Cyber-Criminals and Their Motivations II. THE ECONOMICS OF SOFTWARE SYSTEM SECURITY A. A Framework for Evaluating Software System Security B. The Economic Costs and...

ERA's U.S. Government Affairs efforts: the voice of electronic retailing.
ERA is the eyes, ears and voice of electronic retailers in the nation's capital. The association advocates your views and concerns to Congress, federal agencies, the courts and the public. In addition, ERA works closely with consumer groups and other related industry associations, public affairs groups and agencies to...

How can I get rid of these spam SMS?
Byline: Kalyan Parbat KOLKATA: How many times have you struggled to pull out your cellphone from the depth of your pocket when you heard it beep an incoming SMS and how many times did you eagerly click on "Messages" and then "Inbox" only to find it say:...

Computer crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION A. Defining Computer Crime B. Types of Computer-Related Offenses 1. Object of Crime 2. Subject of Crime a. Spare b. Viruses c. Worms d. Trojan Horses e. Logic Bombs f. Sniffers g. Denial of Service Attacks h. Web Bots & Spiders 3. Instrument of Crime II. GENERAL...