Typosquatting Claims Against Security Researcher Are Legally Complicated -...
Kenzie is a security researcher who has registered numerous domain names that are typographic errors of well-known trademarks (e.g., rnastercard, rncdonalds, nevvscorp, rncafee, macvvorld, rnonster,...
View ArticleWill the Trademark Clearinghouse Fulfill its Potential?
ICANN created the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) as a way to streamline the repetitive process forced on trademark owners during the launch of new top-level-domains. With the expected tsunami of...
View ArticleGovernment Hacking: Proposed Law in the Netherlands
In 2012 I wrote a blog on CircleID called State hacking: Do's and don'ts, pros and cons. In this post I give some thoughts to the concept of a government "hacking back" at criminals. The reason for...
View ArticleICANN at the Inflection Point: Implications and Effects Of the GAC Beijing...
Author's Foreword Although this article was first published just a few days ago, on May 8th, there have been several important intervening developments. First, on May 10th ICANN released a News Alert...
View ArticleHow to Stop the Spread of Malware? A Call for Action
On Webwereld an article was published (in Dutch) following a new Kaspersky malware report Q1-2013. Nothing new was mentioned here. The Netherlands remains the number 3 as far as sending malware from...
View ArticleUS Should Take More Aggressive Counter-Measures On IP Theft, Including Use of...
A bipartisan Commission recently produced a report titled, "The Report of the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property". Karl Bode from dslreports.com writes: The...
View ArticleFrance Drops Its Internet "Three Strikes" Anti-Piracy Law
France has put an end to its most extreme measure of its notorious "three strikes" anti-piracy law which came into effect in 2009. Cyrus Farivar reporting in Ars Technica: The law is better known by...
View ArticleCAN SPAM Issues in Zoobuh V. Better Broadcasting
Last week a Utah court issued a default judgement under CAN SPAM in Zoobuh vs. Better Broadcasting et al. I think the court's opinion is pretty good, even though some observers such as very perceptive...
View ArticleGoogle Asks U.S. Government to Allow Transparency for Its National Security...
In an open letter published today, Google has asked the U.S. Attorney General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for more transparency regarding national security request data in light of the NSA...
View ArticleIntroducing Internet Society's Intellectual Property Issues Paper
What made an organization like the Internet Society draft an issues paper on Intellectual Property? What is the aim of this paper? How does the paper relate to overall Internet governance discussions?...
View ArticleProvoking National Boundaries on the Internet? A chilling thought…
The impact of the recently revealed US government data collection practices may go well beyond the privacy ramifications outlined in the Internet Society's statement: expect a chilling effect on...
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Renowned Security Expert Bruce Schneier Joins EFF Board of Directors
Bruce Schneier Joins EFF Board of DirectorsThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced that renowned security expert, Bruce Schneier, has joined its Board of Directors. Schneier's first...
View ArticleGoogle Books Case Part 4,523: Decide Fair Use First
The endless lawsuit by the Authors Guild (which purports to represent authors, no longer including me), against Google moved another small step toward completion today. The Guild is just sure that...
View ArticlePaths of Glory: Privacy Still Matters
The world has changed dramatically for the better over the last 15 years, mainly due to the commercialization of the Internet. That is what I would like to believe. Unfortunately, I am no longer sure....
View ArticleWhen an IP Address Does Not Equal Individual Culpability - Breaking Glass...
Something bad happens online. I can tie that something-bad back to an IP address. Do I know who did the bad thing? According to the Federal District Court in Arizona, I don't. An IP address may...
View ArticleTrademarks for TLDs
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has recently circulated proposed examination guidelines to allow the USPTO to begin providing Trademark Protection for Top Level Domains (TLDs)....
View ArticleTime for Outrage! (continued)
"The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power." —W. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar When the scale of global surveillance carried out by the NSA (USA) and by the GCHQ (UK) was exposed by...
View ArticleBruce Schneier: Government and Industry Have Betrayed the Internet, and Us
Bruce Schneier in an op-ed piece published in the Guardian on Thursday writes: "Government and industry have betrayed the internet, and us. By subverting the internet at every level to make it a vast,...
View ArticleMore Petition by Google for Greater Transparency
Google reported today that it has filed an amended petition in the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The company, in a blog post, reports: "This petition [PDF] mirrors the requests made to...
View ArticlePlumbing Neutrality
I've been having arguments about Network Neutrality with a lawyer. My position is that you can't adequately regulate ISPs to be neutral, because there's no agreement what "neutral" means in practice....
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