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Clarke gets EC backing over data retention
Talkback the Commission has neither supported nor backed Clarke's proposal, it has *re-iterated* its desire for a data retention directive (i.e. Commission proposed not a framework agreement put forward by the Member States).they Commission views Clarke's...
[July 18, 2005, 9:20]
Clarke joins latest cyberterror debate
News Richard Clarke, the former White House cyber security advisor, has criticised a UK company for using the term "cyberterrorism". In response Clarke, who was a security advisor to four US presidents, said he disliked use of the word "cyberterror" as...
[February 11, 2005, 13:25]
Clarke gets EC backing over data retention
News The European Commission has thrown its support behind Home Secretary Charles Clarke's data retention plans, calling for telecoms companies and ISPs to store details of all phone calls, text messages, faxes and email communications but not their...
[July 15, 2005, 10:00]
Clarke pledges to push on with ID cards
News The government's identity card bill, which will not become law ahead of the general election, would be resurrected should Labour win, home secretary Charles Clarke confirmed on 5 April, 2005. Clarke blamed the conservatives for preventing the...
[April 6, 2005, 17:35]
Ken Clarke takes campaign onto the Web
Talkback I would like to send a message to Kenneth Clarke. Dear Ken Your Country needs you! Don't stand idly by and watch the Country Party fade into insignificance. You and Michael Potillo are the only blokes who can stop the terminal decline of the Party.
[October 30, 2003, 23:09]
Ken Clarke takes campaign onto the Web
News Former chancellor Kenneth Clarke has shown that some politicians are serious about using new technology to help them get elected, by holding a live Webcast on Wednesday morning. Clarke, who is hoping to be elected leader of the Conservative Party...
[August 22, 2001, 12:11]
For Arthur C Clarke: out of the cradle, endlessly orbiting.
Blog I can't say how moved I am at Arthur Clarke's death. So it is fitting that Clarke's best memorial is a small, drum-shaped box containing the finest technology of the mid-60s could produce, mutely orbiting 22,300 miles above the equator.
[March 19, 2008, 0:39]
Clarke joins latest cyberterror debate
Talkback Clarke joins latest cyberterror debate - http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39187582,00.htm Those 'expert' personalities, such as Richard Clarke, also appear not to have read DK Matai's speech and have made factually incorrect...
[February 11, 2005, 15:59]
For Arthur C Clarke: out of the cradle, endlessly orbiting.
Blog Comment The world is a lesser place because of his passing.
[March 19, 2008, 9:51]
Government defends new cyber-snooping powers
News On the day the government published its long-awaited E-communications Bill (formerly the E-Commerce Bill), Home Office minister Charles Clarke and e-Minister Patricia Hewitt stoutly defended the decision to push through controversial law...
[November 19, 1999, 16:22]
Ex-cybersecurity czar warns that complacency could lead to disaster
News Richard Clarke has more bad news for IT execs. During his tenure as White House cybersecurity czar, Clarke was frequently criticised for his "sky-is-falling" attitude. Indeed, Clarke claims that the Sobig attack brought down a chunk of sky and that...
[October 24, 2003, 12:30]
HP merger chief resigns
News Hewlett-Packard reported on Tuesday that executive vice president Jeff Clarke, the man credited with leading the company's $19bn merger with Compaq, has resigned. Clarke, who had previously served as chief financial officer at Compaq, moved into a...
[November 25, 2003, 15:50]
Schools get more freedom for IT spend
News Schools are to get more freedom to spend on IT, under measures announced by education and skills secretary Charles Clarke on Wednesday. Speaking at the BETT conference and exhibition in London, Clarke said that rules will be changed to allow...
[January 7, 2004, 11:35]
30,000 botnets march across the Internet
News Former security advisor to the White House Richard Clarke said the number of zombie networked machines has risen to 15 times greater than last year's figure of 2,000 compromised PCs. The number of botnets has gone in the last year from 2,000 to...
[November 5, 2004, 14:48]
Straight talking on terrorism
News When the second plane hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, Richard Clarke didn't wait around for President Bush to react. Clarke, who now heads up security firm Good Harbour Consulting, has an impressive CV.
[November 12, 2004, 16:00]
Home Secretary to push ahead with data retention law
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke has acknowledged the fears of ISPs over new data retention legislation, and called for a continuing dialogue between government and industry to "understand the business point of view".
[January 11, 2006, 13:55]
Don't let up in ID card battle
Leader The pictures of Charles Clarke holding his own ID card highlight the irony: you don't need a national database to identify a perpetrator at the scene of a crime. Those in favour are more easily listed: Clarke and Blair, two people congenitally...
[October 20, 2005, 14:35]
ID cards bill passes second Commons reading
News The government's majority was slashed by more than half at the ID cards bill vote in parliament on Tuesday, despite Home Secretary Charles Clarke promising a range of concessions in order to stave off a full-scale backbench Labour rebellion.
[June 29, 2005, 16:15]
Turing Award goes to error-checking researchers
News Edmund M Clarke, of Carnegie Mellon University, E Allen Emerson, of the University of Texas at Austin, and Joseph Sifakis, of the University of Grenoble, were awarded the $250,000 (£127,000) prize by IT professional organisation the Association...
[February 5, 2008, 17:23]
