Posted by Simon Perry on 20 November 2008 | Tagged as: Content, Apple, Copy Protection
It’s looking like Apple has built copy protection into their new laptops, without bothering to tell prospective purchasers about it.
The currently Apple-faithful who have bought the new laptops, including the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, are finding that if they try to play films - that they have legitimately rented through Apple iTunes Store - […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 15 October 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Security, Google
You may have seen that every now and again we’ll point out new features in Google’s applications.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 1 October 2008 | Tagged as: Data Loss, Privacy, Government, Security, UK
Here’s another tale of UK data loss that has to be one for the “You couldn’t make it up” files.
An Englishman has bought a Nikon Coolpix camera from eBay for £17 that had lots of secret information stored on it.
According to The Sun, list is considerable.
a document marked “top secret” detailed the encrypted computer system […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 October 2008 | Tagged as: Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copy Protection, DVD, Software, DVD-Centric
A strong sense of Deja Vu is flowing thick around the Digital-Lifestyles offices today as we hear that ‘Hollywood’ is to take legal action against Real Network for their DVD copying software, RealDVD.
Five years ago last month, the collected legal might of the Hollywood studios took a disliking to 321 Studios as they too had […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 September 2008 | Tagged as: Data Loss, USB device, Security, Storage
It’s starting to feel like we could almost start a new site _just_ about data loss in the UK.
The latest is West Midlands Police who are reported as having lost a 4GB USB memory stick containing unencrypted classified information about suspected terrorists.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 3 September 2008 | Tagged as: Security
I’ve got over 78,000 spam emails sitting in my Gmail account - and that’s with them auto-deleting after three months. Crazy isn’t it?
Normally there’s very little humour to the messages, but we can see spammers trying new methods like the news scam that they came up with recently.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 2 September 2008 | Tagged as: Content, Security
Research finds that the first letter of your e-mail address might influence the amount of spam in your inbox.
Posted by Simon Perry on 28 August 2008 | Tagged as: Security, Government, Europe, USA, UK, Legal
We heard news from Gary McKinnon’s law firm, Kaim Todner, that the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’) has ruled against their recent application to have Gary’s extradition to the US halted.
The temporary prohibition of McKinnon’s extradition, as granted by the ECtHR on 12 August, is now effectively lifted and the authorities of the United […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 22 August 2008 | Tagged as: Data Loss, Government, Security, UK
Yet another UK Government data loss story today.
Today’s is the loss of the names, dates of birth and, in some cases, the expected prison release dates of all 84,000 prisoners in the UK.
As well as this shocking amount of data, there was more held on the memory stick that it’s reported that PA Consulting lost.
PA […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 August 2008 | Tagged as: Security, USA, Legal
Three students who were carrying out academic research into the security vulnerabilities of Boston’s transit fare payment system have had a court order that forbade them to discuss the issues, reversed.
You might have thought that in the ‘land of the free,’ forbidding free speech is the kind of thing that could never happen. Thank goodness […]
