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Encryption Foils Internet Child Porn Prosecutions
Talkback As an émigré outside the UK/EU, so presumably beyond the jurisdiction of UK authority, I feel sufficiently emboldened to express opinion without feeling I will be subject to an unannounced visit from the UK Morals Police or a snap Inland Revenue...
[February 22, 2005, 3:26]
Encryption Foils Internet Child Porn Prosecutions
News In the 14 countries that were invited to participate in Operation Cathedral -- the international police investigation into the Wonderland Club -- many prosecutions failed because police computer experts were unable to crack the encryption codes...
[August 3, 2001, 14:10]
Encryption Foils Internet Child Porn Prosecutions
Talkback I would like to send you some links to publications about my criminal case. I worked for Mitsubishi Electric Automation in Vernon Hills, IL, USA. My case are getting public attention now as an example of miscarriage of justice.
[March 15, 2005, 0:41]
MPs: Firms Should Take Fight To Cybercriminals
News UK companies should get more support when bringing private prosecutions against suspected cybercriminals, according to the All Party Internet Group (APIG). One key recommendation is that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) should set out a...
[June 30, 2004, 15:15]
UK Law Failing To Nail Spammers
News The spokesperson added that no prosecutions are imminent either. According to Richard Allan MP, Liberal Democrat member for Sheffield Hallam, the absence of any British prosecutions against spammers is a sign that UK ISPs have been doing a good job...
[December 13, 2004, 17:10]
Exclusive: UK Hackers Have An Easy Life
News I had a very positive response from the press.it makes are real difference to the number of successful prosecutions there are over here. The cost for the police and the judicial system prevent prosecutions.
[July 7, 1999, 16:35]
US Justice Department Ready To Prosecute File-swappers
News In an interview, Malcolm would not say when prosecutions would begin. But, Malcolm said, criminal prosecutions can be much more effective in intimidating file-swappers who have little assets at risk in a civil suit.
[August 21, 2002, 7:51]
A Year Ago: Exclusive: UK Hackers Have An Easy Life
News I had a very positive response from the press.it makes are real difference to the number of successful prosecutions there are over here. The cost for the police and the judicial system prevent prosecutions.
[July 7, 2000, 7:01]
The Big Interview: Jerry Fishenden
News Microsoft has launched successful prosecutions against a number of spammers, but for trademark infringement and damage to reputation, instead of the act of sending spam. I'd like to see more of the companies affected by spam, such as Google and...
[January 24, 2007, 15:14]
DMCA Case Verdict: Not Guilty
News But he cautioned that the acquittal did not mean software developers should consider themselves immune from future criminal prosecutions under the law. Lawyers not involved in the case said the ElcomSoft verdict boded ill for future criminal...
[December 18, 2002, 8:08]
Computer Misuse Act Stands The Test Of Time
News Definition of "computer" and other terms: the report concludes that the (intentional) absence from the CMA of definitions of terms like "computer", "data" or "program" has not caused difficulty in bringing prosecutions, and on the contrary makes...
[July 1, 2004, 16:00]
Government Struggles To Prosecute Spammers
News We can and do take prosecutions across the wide remit for which we are responsible. The DTI claimed that enforcement actions by the ICO against UK spammers had been effective alone, without having to pursue prosecutions.
[December 6, 2006, 9:46]
State Attorney General's Office Uses New Technology To Improve Constituent Service
White Papers The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General manages a broad range of law and public safety responsibilities, including conducting criminal investigations and prosecutions, handling civil litigation on behalf of Commonwealth agencies, and...
[February 8, 2008, 23:00]
US Investigates 'anti-terrorist' Data Retention
News Gonzales and FBI director Robert Mueller privately met with representatives of AOL, Comcast, Google, Microsoft and Verizon last week and said that ISP - and perhaps search engines - must retain data for two years to help with anti-terrorism...
[May 31, 2006, 9:15]
Trojan Horse Found Responsible For Child Porn
Talkback At last the Trojan defence is stopping police prosecutions in their tracks. Check the definition of "witchhunt". Essentially a suspect is considered guilty until proved innocent; compelled to try to prove a negative.
[November 28, 2004, 5:50]
Entertainment Industry 'trying To Hijack Data Retention Directive'
News Opponents have claimed that if this demand was granted, then — combined with the upcoming IPRED2 legislation which could create Europe-wide criminal offences for intellectual property infringement — the entertainment industry would be able to...
[November 24, 2005, 17:00]
Police Warn Of IT Expertise Shortfall
News Police and experts warned on Monday that prosecutions are collapsing or being conducted unfairly because of a shortage of expert witnesses with IT skills. According to Tony Neate, industry liaison officer for the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU...
[February 28, 2006, 11:55]
UK Spammers Set To Avoid Prosecution Until 2005
News Legislation brought in last year to clamp down on UK companies who send unsolicited junk mail over the Internet is unlikely to result in any prosecutions until 2005. The Information Commissioner's Office, which applies the Privacy and Electronic...
[April 16, 2004, 12:50]
US Spammers Get Fines And Jail Time
News A Florida man known as the "timeshare spammer" was sentenced to a year in prison on Thursday for clogging in-boxes with millions of unsolicited email messages, in one of the first criminal prosecutions under US federal anti-spam laws.
[November 18, 2005, 8:10]
Russian Spammer Found Dead
News The case is being treated as murder though no motive has yet been established, according to reports citing the public prosecutions office of Moscow's central district. Known spammer Vardan Kushnir has been found dead in his Moscow apartment, having...
[July 26, 2005, 18:05]
