Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 17th, 2007
December 16, 1947 is not a date in history that most of us celebrate, but perhaps we should. On that date, three Bell Laboratories physicists invented the transistor. The was an ugly affair made out of a paperclip and a couple of small pieces of metal, but it changed history.
Without ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
A new bill in Congress would drastically increase the civil and criminal penalties for copyright violations. H.R. 4279 would also create a new intellectual property division within the Justice Department. The proposed law would allow the Justice Department to seize and auction off any computer or network hardware used to facilitate a ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
The National Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) unveiled a new crime-fighting computer system last week, according the Btown Monitoring Post blog. The Law Enforcement Information Exchange (LInX) will allow state and local agencies in the Washington D.C. area to exchange mug shots and crime reports. Prior to the implementation of new system, ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
A lawsuit in Tennesee alleges that the state is failing to provide adequate health care to poor children. A lawsuit filed by a Tennessee non-profit group claims that the state wrongly allowed records and computer files to be deleted from state computer systems. The group sought - and received - ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
ZDNet reports that researchers have cracked the protocol used to secure some of Microsoft's wireless keyboards. This opens up the possibility of logging all keystrokes typed on the keyboard, or even controlling the compromised computer remotely.
Users should always consider the security implications of using any wireless device. If a device ...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Missouri prosecutors declined to press charges in the cyberbullying case in which a 13-year-old girl committed suicide. The girl hanged herself after receiving cruel messages through MySpace.com. St. Charles County prosecutor Jack Banas said he could not find any Missouri statutes allowing him to charge anyone in the case. Federal authorities ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Lawmakers contemplating new regulations regarding cyberbullying face a nearly impossible task. Their actions come as a response to the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier. Megan alledgedly received cruel message from her neighbors from a fake MySpace account. Her parents claim these messages caused her to hang herself in 2006. Now ...
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