by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the what-have-we-learned dept. Last summer we followed the odd case of lawyer Charles Carreon, as he went after Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal webcomic, with legal threats. Carreon had been hired by FunnyJunk, a website Inman accused of stealing his...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 11, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, LAW, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
from the spying-made-simple dept. concealment writes with news that a court battle has brought to light details on how the FBI’s “stingray” surveillance tool works, and how they used it with Verizon’s help to collect evidence about an alleged...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the literal-reading-for-literally-reading dept. Anyone under 18 found reading the news online could hypothetically face jail time according to the latest draft of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which is said to be ‘rushed’ to Congress during...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the hidden-in-congressional-offices dept. According to the CBC, there was a massive leak of “files containing information on over 120,000 offshore entities — including shell corporations and legal structures known as trusts — involving people in over 170...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the there-should-be-blood dept. Rackspace has come out fighting against one of the U.S.’s most notorious patent trolls, Parallel Iron. The cloud services firm said it’s totally fed up with trolls of all kinds, which have caused a 500 percent rise in...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 5, 2013 | HAPPINESS, HARDWARE, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, TECHNOLOGY
from the not-the-best-resume-builder dept. Last fall, the state of Washington passed a marijuana legalization referendum, and needed to acquire an outside consultant to run the program. ‘As it normally does, the state put out a request for proposal for a...
