Jon’s Network

A computer crimes agent from the FBI told Richard Bejtlich that a company can reduce vulnerabilities, but it is up to the FBI to reduce threats.

In other words, it is beyond the legal or practical capability of most computer crime victims to investigate, prosecute, and incarcerate threats.

Richard points out this CDT press release [...]

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From Wired:

A federal appeals court on Monday issued a landmark decision (.pdf) that holds that e-mail has similar constitutional privacy protections as telephone communications, meaning that federal investigators who search and seize emails without obtaining probable cause warrants will now have to do so.

Most people already have had an expectation of privacy form the beginning [...]

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Robert Alan Soloway was arrested Wednesday charged with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. According to Microsoft, he is one of the worlds most prolific spammers. Federal authorities actually said that we could notice a decrease in spam according to Yahoo News, but I find that [...]

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p> Thomas Claburn wrote about the Digg rebellion that snubbed copyright law by refusing to censor posts that publicize the processing key to unlock the DRM on HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs. The article is infused with quotes by Gregory Rutchik, which are great, but one of them perpetuates a false idea and I wanted [...]

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p>Mike Masnick of Techdirt summarized his series of posts that everyone in business needs to read and understand. Those who apply his lucid explanation will thrive and those who don’t will eventually fall to the wayside.

Redefine the market based on the benefits [...]

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I just read about GratisCard in the Economist. It looks compelling for one main reason. It is anonymous. There is nothing on the card that identifies the owner. This means your personal information won’t be sitting on servers all over the world waiting to be stolen. All customer data are [...]

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The ends don’t justify the means- or do they? Why does that Canadian hacker get off clean when this guy had to plead guilty?  There is no difference the way I see it.  They both were distributing Trojans. The former masqueraded as photos in a newsgroup and the latter as movie downloads in chat rooms. [...]

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Nancy Willard, a lawyer in the education and computer law fields, has published an analysis (pdf download) today of the Julie Amero case after reviewing all available data, including the police reports.  She also discusses the map of the classroom.

Here is a tasty morsel:

Let’s be perfectly clear about this: The school district contacted the [...]

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I’m sure you have heard about Julie Amero, the poor substitute teacher that was convicted of harming some minors by intentionally showing them pornography.  You can read the Jan 6 report here.  First of all, even if she did do that, I don’t think a prison sentence is going to curb her interest in porn.  [...]

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