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February 26, 2009

Gary McKinnon - the US military refuses to blink first

Lesson number one from the Gary McKinnon case: if you want to hack computers run by the US military, do it from an unfriendly country and not one of its closest allies.

Banal, but therein lies a route to the daftness of the whole affair, which rumbles on still with the news that the UK CPS will not bring charges against McKinnon in his home country, leaving the way open for his extradition to the US for trial.

John E. Dunn | Read more...

February 16, 2009

The NSA cracks Skype and other tall tales

For millions of customers Skype is a neat way to talk on the cheap using the Net. For the authorities, however, it has become nothing less than a private channel for criminals to plot mayhem without detection - or so it is alleged.

The Italian police apparently hate it, the Germans hate it, and so do (although they refuse to discuss it) do the police in the UK. If you believe some accounts, the US National Security Agency is now so obsessed with it (see below) that they have put its breaking ahead of the next watching North Korea and Iran in terms of computing priorities.

John E. Dunn | Read more...

February 12, 2009

Enemies rally against open source

Does open source lead to more secure software, less secure software or does it not make a difference one way or the other?

Here's what I culled from a 3 minute trawl of my inbox.

John E. Dunn | Read more...

February 10, 2009

Software turns into politics

British politics could strike some people as dull, but if you look hard enough you just never know. Last week, a fascinating new rift widened between the government and main opposition party over - yes, you read this correctly - programming models.

To quote the blog of opposition chancellor George Osborne, a man who does wear a suit every day, and who did go to Oxford.

John E. Dunn | Read more...

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