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Stanford to appeal email intercept conviction
News In a telephone interview, Stanford claimed that his involvement in the intercept was legal as someone "on the inside who had total permission to run the server put in a redirect". Clifford Stanford, founder of Demon and Redbus, is planning to...
[September 16, 2005, 13:45]
MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Design for Operations Using AVIcode Intercept Studio and MOM 2005 (Level 100)
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn how Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 and AVIcode Intercept Studio 2.3 extend the capabilities of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System. AVIcode Intercept Studio and MOM 2005 provide the foundation...
[June 22, 2007, 1:00]
Stanford to appeal email intercept conviction
Talkback It is important to mention that just like telephonic conversation, a conversation through electronic mail also have the backing and support of privacy rights and any unauthorised access of the same will violate the privacy rights of its holder.
[September 16, 2005, 19:13]
Stanford to appeal email intercept conviction
Talkback It is typical of this government to prosecute a citizen for something that this government regularly does itself as a matter of policy. In the case of Stanford, it was in the public interest. In the case of government, it is self-interest and...
[September 17, 2005, 13:59]
Home Office denies prototype intercept database
Blog According to the Home Office, no prototype database has been built by either the Home Office or the intelligence services, to test whether all UK citizens' communications information can be stored. As part of the Interception Modernisation...
[April 7, 2009, 17:34]
Government okays snooping on staff
News New guidelines issued by the government Tuesday granting employers the freedom to intercept employees' emails and phone calls has been criticised by privacy experts for violating the right to privacy under the Human Rights Act (HRA).
[October 5, 2000, 10:55]
Extent of government eavesdropping revealed
News The government's eavesdropping watchdog has issued its latest report, revealing there were more than 253,000 requests to intercept individuals' communications in the last nine months of 2006, including 1,694 requests by local authorities.
[January 31, 2008, 11:14]
Researcher demonstrates SSL attack
News A security researcher has demonstrated a way to hijack Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) sessions to intercept login data. That opens up all kinds of avenues for ways that you might intercept [details]," Marlinspike said.
[February 20, 2009, 14:21]
Parliament 'didn't understand RIP Act'
News Legislation brought in three years ago that allows UK law enforcement and security agencies to monitor and intercept mobile phone and email records was not properly examined by politicians because they didn't truly understand it, according to a...
[November 6, 2003, 16:35]
Surveillance: Is e-privacy a human right?
News Plans to intercept email and Internet calls contravene the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) according to a government report. Simon Davies, spokesman for human rights group Privacy International, says the government knows its proposal to...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Europe moves to monitor all Internet traffic
News European Home Office officials are supporting demands from law enforcement authorities for logs of all Internet traffic to be stored for up to seven years, a move that would increase police powers to intercept communications data.
[May 17, 2001, 7:48]
Election 2001: Tory manifesto embraces freedom of the Net
News The Conservative party is proposing a laissez-faire approach towards regulating the Internet space, in contradiction with Labour's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) which gives police and other authorities the power to...
[May 22, 2001, 12:46]
xSMS
Downloads Most users to not realize how easy it may be to intercept. Source: Gartner, "Don''t Use SMS for Confidential Information)Also, hardware to intercept GSM communications is readily available, and if you're texting to or from a foreign...
[July 27, 2009, 8:00]
The Magnitude Effect in Tipping: Revisiting Green, Myerson and Schneider's (in Press) Explanation
White Papers This re-analysis demonstrates that the magnitude effect in tipping is a spurious ratio correlation created by a positive intercept in the relationship between tip amount and bill size. This report's simulation demonstrates that a positive intercept...
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Communication interception goes global
News The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has created the LegalXML Lawful Intercept XML (LI-XML) technical committee to develop a global framework to support the "rapid discovery and sharing of suspected...
[January 24, 2003, 9:05]
Demon founder loses RIPA appeal bid
News On Thursday, the Court of Appeal upheld Judge Geoffrey Rivlin's ruling that Stanford had not been legally authorised to intercept emails destined for John Porter, Dame Shirley Porter's son. He was therefore authorised to intercept the emails as a...
[February 3, 2006, 14:50]
Sniffing worm snoops network PCs
News The worm has the potential to intercept passwords and PayPal account details on networked computers. Hackers use them on compromised PCs to intercept data packets, such as login details, which allow them to access to other computers.
[September 14, 2004, 14:55]
Bush lobbies EU to drop traffic data retention ban
News The US President has added his voice to those of the British government and EU law enforcement agencies, who have been demanding powers to intercept electronic communications for terrorist and criminal investigations.
[November 5, 2001, 13:04]
Crypto could force government hacking
News Brian Gladman, an independent cryptography researcher, suggests that the increased use of secure encryption for email communication will mean that the only way for GCHQ, the government's information-gathering headquarters, to intercept...
[November 23, 1999, 13:25]
A Year Ago: Government plans e-surveillance
News IOCA (Interception of Communications Act) was drawn up in 1985, giving the police power to intercept telephone calls. The government wants the power to intercept one in every 500 Internet transmissions made, a figure which has even law enforcers...
[September 27, 2000, 7:02]
