Canadian Spam Task Force Report Released

May 18, 2005

From Michael Geist’s BNA’s Internet Law News: Canada’s National Task Force on Spam released its final report yesterday. The report recommends creating a new anti-spam law that would establish an opt-in regime supported by tough penalties. The report also calls for the creation of a private right of action to facilitate spam suits and the […]

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The Easy Aggregation of Personal Data

May 18, 2005

The NYT reports today on a fun school project at Johns Hopkins – for $50, see how much personal data on others you can collect. Answer: lots. And lots. And the truly fun part is the picture many different pieces of information create when they are linked together. Quote: Working with a strict requirement to […]

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Adrift 500 Feet Under the Sea, a Minute Was an Eternity

May 18, 2005

The NYT has a detailed story on the tragic accident on the submarine USS San Francisco that saw it crash at high speed into an undersea mountain earlier this year, apparently because of problems with undersea mapping technology used by the Navy. If I’m reading the NYT article correctly, the Navy appears to have blamed […]

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On Pharming and Evil Twins

May 18, 2005

Sabrina Pacifici links today to a free WSJ article that describes some of the more recent tactics being used to steal our personal information: ‘pharming’ our information after sending us to webpages that look like the intended destination, but are merely imposters to which we’ve been sent using a poisoned URL, and ‘evil twin’ WiFi […]

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Causes of Legal Malpractice Claims

May 17, 2005

Dan Pinnington has an article in the current Law Practice Today analyzing the stats on main causes of legal malpractice claims. Most interesting takeaway for me: Although knowing black-letter law is important, in most areas of practice, a law-related mistake is not even close to your greatest risk of a malpractice claim. A review of […]

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IBM’s Corporate Blogging Policy

May 16, 2005

IBM has a new corporate blogging policy – details here. I’ve added it to my sticky post on Corporate and Employee Blogging Resources. More at Ed Brill’s blog on IBM’s new corporate blogging initiative.

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The Flat World and Human Evolution

May 16, 2005

Here is a disturbing, though long-term, potential implication of the Flat World: decreasing cultural diversity with attendant adverse consequences on the biological evolution of our species. (So much for my love affair with broadband.)

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Phishing With Stolen Data

May 16, 2005

In one of the more evil incarnations of phishing to have emerged, it appears that new scams are developing that use stolen data about individuals to craft targeted phishing messages to them. Details at CNews. Workers at hosted security services company Cyota are sharing the details of this more sophisticated form of phishing threat, which […]

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Another Tool to Check OS Code Use

May 15, 2005

Via The Register, news of a new tool that allows developers to check code for use of code from OS files. I wrote in March about a similar tool from Black Duck Software.

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A Secret Even From Google

May 15, 2005

Recently, James Fallows wrote in the NYT about GoogleMaps and left a teaser in his story about a location in the U.S. that was so secret, it was obscured even from the satellite views in GoogleMaps. Today he lets the rest of us on it: Now, a promised final word about Google’s aerial views. Last […]

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Going Phishing

May 15, 2005

I’m now getting phished about 5 times a day. They are of two types. First, eBay and bank scams, generally about banks I’ve never heard of. Second, the Nigerian-type scam – eg, money is wrongfully locked in an overseas account and I get a rich commission for assisting. The first type is invariably very sophisticated. […]

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Stories From VoIP Converts

May 15, 2005

Matt Ingram writes in the Globe on some experiences with the conversion to VoIP, including some suggestions that Bell is gaming people who are calling in to get tech support on how to make the change. To my mind, the last point is the main reason we need CRTC scrutiny of VoIP, and the bright […]

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