Olympics Committee wants help from Piratebay.org

I was mildly amused this afternoon to hear that the IOC (International Olympics Committee) is looking to the Pirate Bay to help it eradicate BitTorrent indexes that show clips from the Beijing Olympics.

TUE 19 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Drink-driver caught out by Facebook

I was mildly amused at the tale of a 20-year-old college student who, after being busted by the Plod and accused of causing an accident whilst drunk-in-charge, apparently got bored waiting for the case to come up in court.

MON 18 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Metropolitan Police Publishes Online Crime Maps With Home Office Blessings

The Scotland Yard has published clickable maps on its website that contain statistical information on crimes related to a particular area

MON 18 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Another 45,000 People's Personal Details Get Lost by Ministry of Justice

Another week, another embarrassment for the British Government. This time around, the Ministry of Justice is the culprit with details of 45,000 people being misplaced in nine separate incidents

MON 18 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Court Decision Means Open Source Licenses Are legally Enforceable

Open Source may to be synonymous with "free as in free beer" but it doesn't mean that one can do what ever they want with the code and go unpunished

FRI 15 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Court injunction to silence MIT students misfires

I nearly laughed my socks off after reading that a group of MIT students - who were due to reveal all about the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority's smart card system inadequacies at last weekend's Defcon event - have seen their Powerpoint presentation posted to the Web as a matter of public record.

WED 13 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Snooping Doubles As Councils Are Encouraged To Spy More

As per a recent parliamentary report, government’s requests for spying private communications, has been doubled during the past one year

WED 13 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

TFL Terminates Oyster Contract With Transys, Faces Lengthy Legal Wrangles

Transport for London (TfL) has terminated GBP100 million per year contract with the TranSys, which provides ticketing system, popularly known as ‘Oyster Card’, for different transport systems in London

TUE 12 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

EFF to appeal over Defcon subway presentation legal block

Quite interested to read over the weekend that the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is to appeal an injunction against its planned Defcon convention presentation late last week, which would have published "detailed flaws" in the MTBA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) electronic ticketing system.

MON 11 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

BBC Apologies Profusely Over Loss Of Children's Personal Data

The loss of a tiny memory stick forced the BBC to issue an embarrassing apology to 250 children whose personal details were on the storage device

MON 11 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News