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Email wiretaps made easy
News It all comes down to the.idea of a transparent society, where everybody can watch everybody else," he says. Internet security group Sophos recommends organisations turn off all "active content" such as HTML and JavaScript on workers' email software...
[February 5, 2001, 15:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It would be a churl who suggests that a prefab down in Peckham manned by Grunty McPherson of the South London Special Brew Society should do the trick. Ballmer said the new operating system would include advances in digital media handling, home...
[November 19, 2004, 16:55]
Microsoft's 'super optimistic' chief
News A: I am in a superoptimistic kind of mind-set about not just our company but the ongoing impact; the accelerating, perhaps even, impact that technology -- and the software part, explicitly -- is going to have on society.
[April 7, 2004, 13:15]
Socitm urges councils to go green
News Councils should begin to take action to minimise their IT's impact on the environment, says a new report from the Society of Information Technology Management. the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm) says the technology industry's...
[December 4, 2007, 15:02]
The Internet is not the music industry's plaything
Talkback It's typical for certain organizations to demand from society that society should adapt to their (global) organizational plans rather then the other way around. What's strange however is that plenty of people actually buy into to that, get...
[July 15, 2006, 1:13]
Global row brews over Internet management
Talkback The information society placed between public and private sectors. It has been a long public private partnerships issue. I wish the WSIS would be the right time to prepare a space for cooperative: Within this cooperative framework, we will be...
[September 17, 2003, 4:47]
China human rights site cracked
News The Web site of the Chinese Society for Human Rights, a state-run organization, was launched Monday, and contained links to government documents and other officially-sanctioned articles. But visitors to the site saw a stark page of text with the...
[October 28, 1998, 9:12]
Government ignores Web opposition over ID cards
News While some polls have found evidence that the majority of people might welcome ID cards, the government has already admitted that there is significant opposition to their introduction from tech-aware members of society.
[November 12, 2003, 17:10]
If they continue they will drive the public underground.
Talkback Is this what we want in our society? If we the public are watched at this level we will use technology to hide our activities. This will alienate us all from each other, it will cause pain and revenge against the government.
[September 14, 2009, 10:11]
Charity challenges programmers to code for society
News MySociety.org, a not-for-profit organisation, is an attempt to invent and create low-cost initiatives that benefit the wider community, and work across electronic networks such as the Internet or mobile phone networks.
[November 3, 2003, 13:50]
Feasibility of Flow-Based Optical Provisioning in GEANT
White Papers Today this natural separation has been blurred by the convergence of many heterogeneous applications into the Internet network. Traditionally the difference between telephone and data networks has been quite sharply demarcated.
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Multi-Area MPLS/GMPLS Interoperability Trial Over 14-Vendor Packet/TDM/ROADM/OXC Network
White Papers Since the initiation of GMPLS standardization activity in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), many network operators and vendors have been expending significant effort toward furnishing GMPLS control architectures, and have performed a...
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
More ignorance
Talkback All I am saying as this case does not open any real debate into censorship and a "free" society. It really annoys me that people invoke the free society ideal. Does a free society have laws? Can a free society have liable?
[December 9, 2008, 15:58]
