A Pennsylvania company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Obama’s helicopter, Marine One, NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh reported. Sensitive information about Marine One was reportedly found by Tiversa employe...

Your activities on the Internet are akin to your activities out in public—they're not private and are possibly open for police scrutiny, according to an Ontario Superior Court. The ruling was made by Justice Lynne Leitch on—surprise!—a child pornography case. The judge said that th...

Heed well the following XKCD cartoon. Click here for the full-resolution version. “You are not a lawyer” (YANAL) is a fascinating, brief, but effective introduction to the fallacy of using technological reasons for a jury to doubt certain evidence in court, thereby failing to meet the &#...

Ever wondered what the network connection details actually mean? Physical Address: Also called the Media Access Control address, is a serial number that can uniquely identify your ethernet card or wireless adapter. IP Address: An Internet Protocol address is assigned by your LAN provider(say, a mode...

guest4: Luke are you there?  It’s…  *waves*  Do you know how to change an IP? guest4: I’ve unplugged my computer for hours and still the same freaking IP.  I’m asking everyone and posting on tech forums but nothing yet that’s possible for a non-tech ...

I’m in Germany this morning - or so claims The Internetâ„¢. As it happens, I am sitting inside my usual coffee shop in Canary Wharf and sitting at my usual table (after it was vacated by interlopers) - but the internet is convinced that I am in Germany. As it happens, this is not a new occurre...

Google has found itself stuck between a rock and a hard place in its legal battle with Viacom over the question of whether IP addresses constitute “personally identifiable information,� as Jim pointed out yesterday . It’s worth noting, however, that EU regulators have left Google little choice...

Massive breach of privacy A senior US District Court judge, Louis L. Stanton (South District, NY), has ordered Google to hand over approximately 12-terabytes of data to Viacom as part of the long-standing copyright infringement case between the two companies. The data Viacom is interested in contain...

So much for privacy on YouTube. The federal judge presiding over Viacom’s (VIA) $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google (GOOG) and YouTube denied a motion for the pair to produce their source code Wednesday. “YouTube and Google should not be made to place this vital asse...

The Federal Constitutional Court in Germany has ruled that the identities of file-sharers must remain private and can no longer be revealed to media companies who accuse them of copyright infringement. In future, only those accused of ‘heavy’ crimes such as murder, child pornography or k...