Cyber and computer laws are always a grey area, they tend to be very vague and don’t cover specific technologies.
Spam is a good example, look at how long we’ve been getting spammed, and it’s been a SERIOUS problem for at least the last 5 years, spam legislation has only started coming in to effect in [...]
Ethical debates are always interesting, and people have gotten in trouble lately for reverse engineering and various other branches of research.
This is a fairly old topic, but as I’m clearing out some old drafts, I still find it an interesting one.
There’s been an ongoing debate in security circles concerning how security researchers should disclose vulnerabilities [...]
Last year, we noted how some security products could cause conflicts that would cause computers to lock up — but there’s another (less troublesome) trend that’s happening as well: security products declaring competing products as malware and removing them.
Just a little over a week ago, the latest version of Microsoft’s anti-spyware offering declared Symantec’s anti-virus [...]
