The Privacy / Rights ProjectGeneral privacy resources for the individual user - proxies, privacy alerts, discussion of privacy issues, etc.EDRI-gram newsletter - Number 6.16, 27 August 2008- August 28, 2008 ============================================================ EDRI-gram biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe Number 6.16, 27 August 2008============================================================Contents============================================================1. Italian justice wants to "seize" a foreign website2. Cloning e-passports3. Problems with online FoI in the Georgia-Russia conflict4. Copyright experts against the EU extension of the copyright...http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=19065 EFFector 21.29: EFF Secures Free Speech Win for MIT Student Researchers- August 23, 2008 EFFector Vol. 21, No. 29 August 22, 2008 editoreff.orgA Publication of the Electronic Frontier FoundationISSN 1062-9424: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :In our 482nd issue: EFF SECURED A FREE SPEECH VICTORY FOR SECURITYRESEARCHERS, successfully urging a federal judge to lift anunconstitutional gag order that prevented three MITstudents from making a presentation about transit cardvulnerabilities at the DEFCON security conference. TheMassachusetts Bay Transportation...http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=19040 EFFector 21.28: EFF Defends MIT Students Gagged by Federal Court- August 17, 2008 EFFector Vol. 21, No. 28 August 14, 2008 editoreff.orgA Publication of the Electronic Frontier FoundationISSN 1062-9424: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :In our 481st issue: EFF IS DEFENDING FREE SPEECH FOR COMPUTER RESEARCHERS ina legal battle between the Massachusetts Bay TransitAuthority (MBTA) and three MIT students. The undergraduatestudents were planning to present their findings onmagnetic stripe and RFID vulnerabilities at the DEFCONcomputer security conference...http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=19018 EFFector 21.27: EFF Launches Coders' Rights Project- August 10, 2008 EFFector Vol. 21, No. 27 August 6, 2008 editoreff.orgA Publication of the Electronic Frontier FoundationISSN 1062-9424: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :In our 480th issue: EFF IS PROUD TO UNVEIL THE CODERS' RIGHTS PROJECT,building on EFF's longstanding efforts to protectresearchers, engineers, and developers that face seriouslegal challenges to their cutting-edge work. The Coders'Rights Project is home to new FAQs on reverse engineeringand vulnerability reporting,...http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=18988 EFFector 21.26: Fair Use and Free Speech Prevail in Savage Copyright Case- August 2, 2008 EFFector Vol. 21, No. 26 July 31, 2008 editoreff.orgA Publication of the Electronic Frontier FoundationISSN 1062-9424: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :In our 479th issue: EFF AND FAIR USE PREVAIL OVER ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO USECOPYRIGHT TO SILENCE CRITICS, as a federal court dismisseda copyright claim by radio personality Michael Savage lastFriday. Savage sued the Council on American-IslamicRelations (CAIR) for criticizing him with short audio clipsof his radio program -- a.http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=18946 |