cyberlaw
EULA and the Advantage of Free Apps
EULA – acronym for End-user license agreement This EULA Will Make You Rethink Every App and Online Service You Use ‘…Without the public road, and utterly unencumbered access to it, a child’s lemonade stand would never turn a profit. The real business opportunity would be in privatizing other people’s roads. ‘Similarly, without an open, unified […]
Man Falsely Convicted of Hacking
Yesterday, I posted a piece about the anguish of a Googler being banned from all Google services. Now imagine yourself in the shoes of a falsely convicted ‘hacker’. This is the same hacking statute internet sensation Aaron Swartz was accused of before he committed suicide in January. ‘…Defendant David Nosal was convicted by a San […]
Useful Low-cost Digital Camera Hacks
‘The prime amateur photography lesson is that it’s just about composition and light. But the second most important lesson was taught to me by a professional photographer whom I hesitantly asked about the best kinds of photography accessories. He told me to just shoot more and learn till I find that I can’t absolutely do […]
No Facebook Account = Employment Rejection?
What if a Facebook account becomes an employment requirement? Wouldn’t that be blackmailing? This piece was anonymously submitted at Slashdot A CS sophomore submitted a job application to an “office supply chain store”. When he got an interview, he mentioned that he does not have a Facebook account. After a week, he called the place […]
Mexican Eco-Terrorists Attack Nanotechnologists
‘Over the past two years, Mexican scientists involved in bio- and nanotechnology have become targets. They’re not threatened by the nation’s drug cartels. They’re marked for death by a group of bomb-building eco-terrorists with the professed goal of destroying human civilization. ‘The group, which goes by the name Individualidades Tendiendo a lo Salvaje (ITS), posted […]
Blunders That Worsened Aaron’s Position
Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation Quinn Norton, Aaron’s close friend, talks about her blunders “This is the system that we, as citizens, have agreed to.” The prosecutors didn’t know of Swartz’s “Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto” until Norton herself told them about it by mistake. She assumed the prosecutor already knew about it, since it was […]
Great Ad Tool: Links to Pull You In
Amazon Patents Gravity-Based Links to Pull You In One downside to touchscreens is whenever you hit the wrong button or link, you still miss your target link or button even if you tap repeatedly. Amazon solved that. It looks like selfish promotion but it’s helpful. more How AT&T Is Planning to Rob Americans of an […]
Why We Shouldn’t Love our Networking Lives
The Perils Of Living Our Lives Online Have you experienced suddenly losing a social network or even an app you love? You should expect that to happen because it will happen. I lost my Facebook account but fortunately, I’m not fond of it and I’m not really attached to networks. What would hurt me is […]
The VPN for Fighting Internet Shutdown
They can slow down or shut off your internet connection without any due process, claiming copyright infringement. We can all boycott the Six Strikes “Copyright Alert System.” Everyone needs to get a Virtual Private Network (VPN) right now. This is easy to install software that gives you effectively anonymous Internet access that can’t be tampered […]
Policy on Dead’s Facebook Account Overruled by Court
State helps parents access dead child’s Facebook content Do you know that even if you inherited the dead user’s password, it’s against Facebook’s terms of service for you to use it? http://pochp.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/coping-with-death-and-facebook/ ‘Virginia has made it easier for parents and legal guardians to obtain Facebook content and other digital assets created by a child who […]
