The Idiot’s Guide to Why Voicemail Hacking is a Crime

Not what I should be doing right now, but in the wake of the amazing News of the World revelations, there does seem to be some public interest in a quick note on why there is (some) controversy around whether hacking mesages in someone’s…

My report for WIPO on filesharing and intermediaries

Briefly, WIPO has just released two studies on copyright, intermediaries, filesharing and implications such as the rise of graduated response, the first of which I prepared:

GikII in New Scientist! and went to the beach!

Three myths that need nailed about the right to be forgotten (and one question)

1 Everyone thinks it’s a bad idea, so why hasn’t it gone yet, already.

No they don’t, actually. Just the people who get to write in mass media. Few people in Europe…

Cyber(in)security roundup

Producing the Macafee VCR makes you more than normally aware that every vendor and their (robo)dog , plus apparently most NGOs, produces a report on some aspect of online spam, crime, fraud etc in that vital run up period to Christmas when apparently our minds are focused on fun…