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Week in review: Copy-protection drama, scary robots and faster wireless
News In another copy-protection development, a British programmer released software that strips protections from Microsoft's e-book software, which looks a bit similar to the Elcomsoft vs Adobe case that raised so many hackles.
[January 10, 2003, 16:37]
Hacked Rio to pose legal problems?
News I realise that this has certainly going to be a few questions about why we did it," said the British programmer who created a DOS program using the Snowblind code. The programmer would only give his first name, Matt.
[January 28, 1999, 9:49]
Microsoft plugs six browser holes
News The flaw allows a malicious programmer, Web site or email to impersonate you completely," said Thor Larholm, an Internet programmer for Danish portal Jubii and one of two researchers who found the problem.
[February 12, 2002, 11:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News In fact, the programmer continues, quite the opposite is so. An excellent polemic arrives in the comp.risk newsgroup from a programmer, pointing out that while Windows 95 was promised to run with a 386 and 4Mb of RAM it was a daft bugger who tried...
[November 14, 1999, 18:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In fact, the programmer continues, quite the opposite is so. An excellent polemic arrives in the comp.risk newsgroup from a programmer, pointing out that while Windows 95 was promised to run with a 386 and 4Mb of RAM it was a daft bugger who tried...
[November 14, 1999, 18:44]
Brit cracks Microsoft's e-book software
News A British programmer has released software online that is said to dismantle the anticopying technology in the Microsoft Reader e-book software, setting up another potential confrontation in the digital piracy wars.
[January 9, 2003, 10:24]
Legal Napster alternative to be unveiled
News A British computer programmer will next week reveal details on a Napster-like sharing application, that he guarantees will not infringe copyright law. The project -- one of a number from US startup "Uprizer" -- remains classified but London-based...
[August 4, 2000, 9:15]
Anarchist coders prime unfettered file swapping service
News This release will move away from Freenet as a research platform," said Ian Clarke, the British programmer who originally conceived Freenet as a university thesis. While the first generation of file-trading technologies fights over Napster's...
[June 19, 2001, 14:46]
Guerilla tactics will defeat music industry
News Developed by British programmer Ian Clarke while at Edinburgh University, Freenet has no central server, but moves information around from node to node without identifying source or destination. That and closing down other file-sharing services...
[July 27, 2000, 12:40]
Patent nonsense: the case for unfettered development
Talkback Is there really such a shortage of ideas that a few large companies now need to be given monopoly rights to ideas which any competent programmer could think of for themselves? I think the Patent Office, who are promoting the extension of patents...
[March 1, 2005, 23:10]
US attempt to extradite 'DrinkorDie pirate' blocked
News US federal attorneys want to bring Hew Raymond Griffiths, a 42-year-old computer programmer who lives in New South Wales, to the United States to face criminal copyright charges. The US and British governments have brought charges against other...
[March 26, 2004, 7:05]
Official apology for Alan Turing
Blog The apology follows an online petition started by John Graham-Cumming, computer programmer and author of The Geek Atlas, which today stood at over 30,000 signatures. In the apology, made on behalf of the British government and published this...
[September 10, 2009, 22:40]
Film censor dragged into legal row over Carmageddon II
News But toeing the line is, according to Jonty Barnes Senior Programmer for Lionhead giving SCi the free publicity it craves so close to Christmas. SCi and the British Board of Film Classification BBFC are squabbling again over the ratings of the...
[October 22, 1998, 8:47]
Sony CD protection sparks spyware row
News It took some time for Russinovich, an experienced programmer who has written a book on the Windows operating system for Microsoft, to track down exactly what was happening, but he ultimately traced it to code left behind by a recent CD he’d bought...
[November 2, 2005, 12:15]
Q&A: Psion's Norman on the future of palmtops
News In Oval [Psion's new Basic-like tools] a programmer could build an application where it's easy for the manager to select the data he needs dock to a PC, update data and suck out results that they need to access.
[September 9, 1996, 9:48]
Watch out for new Apache worm
News From his early analysis of the worm, the 19-year-old Lithuanian programmer believes it was designed to create a flood net -- a collection of compromised servers that can be used in a denial-of-service attack to overwhelm a target with data.
[July 1, 2002, 8:35]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News Tuesday:A programmer hacks into America Online, and calls me to say that they have a rude word guideline file. Which leaves me without time to go and see the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, get his "gong" from the British Computer...
[July 20, 1996, 11:00]
Inventor celebrates 30 years of Ethernet
Talkback ALOHA and Ethernet were great ideas and the first users of randomisation, a very pervasive concept in digital communications nowadays, but neither of them arose in a vacuum.or an all-American comms discipline.phil overy boring old real time...
[November 17, 2005, 12:35]
Dutch treat? Netherlander takes credit for 'Anna'
News New Jersey programmer David Smith, who pled guilty to authoring and releasing the virus, is currently awaiting sentencing. E-mail service provider Mail.com reported that almost 53,000 copies of the virus were sent to its customers Monday, while...
[February 14, 2001, 8:03]
Hacker eyes Xbox reward
News British programmer Andy Green, one of the founders of the Xbox Linux Project, confirmed on Monday that the 007 exploit works and said it "will qualify for some or all of the prize". An anonymous hacker has succeeded in running Linux on an...
[April 1, 2003, 7:52]
