Australia will Try to Censor the Web

This could have far-reaching effects on sites that, ahem, promote user-generated content. After all, how can you tell what's going to be uploaded tomorrow, or the next day? For example, if we get an article on...

Fark to TM 'NSFW'...WTF?

Good luck, Fark. It's going to be pretty difficult to enforce authorized use of your proprietary webspeak, even if you're granted a trademark on an admittedly dubious "phrase". Might have to call in the Acronym...

Cybercrime commited 'every 10 seconds'

The best form of defence is attack as the cyber criminals flood the UK knowing that it is very unlikely to be reported and highly likely to make a fortune relatively easy. In April 2007, in a widely criticised move, the Government changed the reporting system for a wide...

Man broadcasts suicide over the web

A man in the UK seems to have undertaken his suicide while  active in an Internet chatroom.  From the Telegraph UK:A man was found dead after apparently committing suicide while using a webcam in an internet chatroom, police said.The body of Kevin Neil Whitrick, 42,...

Israel backed by army of cyber-soldiers

"The [Israeli] Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages."

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