It wan’t the sound arguments questioning the lack of security benefit to a national ID card in Australia. It wasn’t the massive concerns about privacy. It wasn’t even the political backlash against trying to implement a national ID card system.
In the end it looks like it is going to bethe cost that saves Australia the […]
In the US, the House Judiciary Committee has introduced a bill to allow consumer electronics devices built after a certain date to reposnd to a copy protection signal embedded in a digital video stream, according to boingboing.
The technology (VEIL) derives from a batman toy that responds to video and TV - which actually sounds kinda […]
It has been reported that the music industry is now going to be going after webmasters who publish the lyrics to copyright songs on their sites.
The Music Publisher’s Association which represents various sheet music companies said it plans to begin pursuing action against sites in early 2006 with the intention that site owners be jailed.
A […]
It seems that the CIA’s program of ‘extraordinary renditions’ is being brought to its knees by a world of exceptionally geeky people.
‘Extraordinary Rendition’ is the name given to the process of kidnapping people from a country and taking them to another country where they can be legally tortured. Organisations fighting against this practive have […]
In a startling revelation that has shocked internet users around the world and sent stock markets into a nose dive, it has come to light that the publicly edited online encyclopedia, wikipedia, is not always accurate and has been culture jammed.
Luckily the culprit has been found and summarily executed while he was awaiting his trial […]