Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Network World has an interesting article called “CAN-SPAM: What Went Wrong?” This title is akin to: “Subprime Mortgages: A Bad Idea?” There are three depressing trends: spam remains a huge problem, both in IT costs and in volume; legal efforts have been mostly useless; and experts still disagree about solutions. There are two interesting ones: [...]
No Comments »
Filed under: Computer crime, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Microsoft, Security, Software, Spam, badware
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Wired has an article on the trade in virtual world items - armor, swords, ninja monkeys, etc. - that takes place using real-world currency. (It tracks the rise and fall of former child actor Brock Pierce and his startup, Internet Gaming Entertainment. You can also find a how-to outlining the virtual gold trade.) The article [...]
5 Comments »
Filed under: Cognitive Decisionmaking, Computer crime, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Scholarship, Software, Virtual Worlds
Posted on October 8th, 2008 by William McGeveran
A grand jury has handed down this indictment against David Kernell, the son of a Democratic state legislator in Tennessee, for allegedly hacking into Governor Sarah Palin’s e-mail account. (News story here.) Professors Orin Kerr and Paul Ohm, probably the two most knowledgeable scholars in the country on the subject of computer crime, [...]
2 Comments »
Filed under: Computer crime, Intermediaries, Privacy
Posted on August 4th, 2008 by William McGeveran
I joined a group of law professors and public-interest groups that filed an amicus brief Friday in the case of United States v. Drew. That criminal case is a repercussion from the horrible and high-profile cyberbullying conducted through MySpace against a small-town Missouri teenager named Megan Meier, who committed suicide in response. Lori [...]
2 Comments »
Filed under: Computer crime, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Privacy, Social Networking, Virtual Worlds