Topic
Hacking
184 published works
The Right Coast
Angry anti-NSA activists hack Angry Birds website after GCHQ data-slurp revelations ” The Register
Anti-NSA hackers defaced *Rovio's official Angry Birds website ,on Tuesday night as a reprisal against revelations that GCHQ and the NSA were feasting on data leaked from the popular smartphone…
Media Law Prof Blog
An Interesting Hacking Case From the Netherlands
Ellen Marja Wesselingh, The Hague University; Leiden University Law School, has published Is a Router an Automated Work in the Sense of the Law or Not? Here is the abstract. An…
Cyberblog
Hackback Backers’ Comeback?
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission has issued its annual report. It reminds us that, while press and privacy campaigners have been hyperventilating over US intelligence programs, there are,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Cyber-criminal/hacktivist gets max federal sentence of 10 years after guilty plea
Main November 17, 2013Cyber-criminal/hacktivist gets max federal sentence of 10 years after guilty pleaAs reported in this Rolling Stone piece, headlined "Cyber-Activist Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years In Prison:…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Without Notice, a Self-Scribed Hacker’s Computer is Seized
By Peter Vogel
To avoid a likely disclosure of software a Judge issued an order to allow the seize of a hacker’s computer based on evidence that in the defendants’ “own words” that…
Inside Global Tech
First Amendment Does Not Protect Hackers’ Identities, NJ Court Holds
The First Amendment does not protect the identities of computer hackers, a New Jersey appellate court held this month. Warren Hospital alleges that two anonymous individuals hacked into its web…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
First Amendment Does Not Protect Hackers’ Identities, NJ Court Holds
The First Amendment does not protect the identities of computer hackers, a New Jersey appellate court held this month. Warren Hospital alleges that two anonymous individuals hacked into its web…
The D&O Diary
Will Cybersecurity Issues Drive the Next Big Securities Litigation Wave?
I am sure many readers were disturbed as I was by the February 19, 2013 New York Times article reporting that a Chinese army unit apparently has been executing a…
Cyberblog
Found: The PLA’s University of Hacking
Bloomberg Businessweek has a remarkable story about the identification of another Chinese hacker. It's a long, tangled, and fascinating tale of good sleuthing by several researchers, but the trail ends…
Media Law Prof Blog
A Little Later, Not So Sorry
Aaron Swartz, who helped create Reddit and was facing federal charges that he hacked into MIT's computers as well as JSTOR's databanks and downloaded millions of documents, committed suicide last…