Appeals court gives Qwest's Nacchio a new trial
An appeals court grants former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio a new trial on securities fraud charges
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BPL Powers Down
...appeals court decision in late April which affirms the FCC licensed/unlicensed approach, but which requires the agency to re-evaluate its information about interference. The FCC failed to disclose fully information from studies it relied on in setting rules, which violated public process. The ARRL wrote up the appeals decision on their site,...
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Wee-Fi: Germans Can Leave Networks Open; Belkin Announces Wireless High-Def
...appeals court says an open Wi-Fi network isn't equivalent to the owner's responsibility for actions over that network: This decisions overturns a lower court's ruling in a peer-to-peer file sharing copyright infringement case that the owner of a Wi-Fi network was de facto culpable for any activity that could be tracked back to the network's...
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UK patent office ordered to accept software patent
An appeals court decision that says computer code is patentable is sowing confusion in the UK, where traditionally patents are not generally granted for computer programs
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Ruling: No suspicion needed to search laptops at U.S. borders
In a ruling that's likely to come as a disappointment for privacy-rights advocates, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this week held that Customs officers need no reasonable suspicion to search through the contents of any individual's laptop computer at the country's borders
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Security ahead of risk at the border
...Appeals, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can continue its practice of warrantless searches through computer data held by U.S. citizens and foreigners alike. With no cause or suspicion, the CBP may inspect, copy or seize data devices carried by anyone returning to the U.S. I'm not convinced that passive compliance is the best response...
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Sometimes, It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief
...appeals to his clients than his mastery of all aspects of criminal cons, grifts, and social-engineering ploys
When you're trying to steal something, you find the weakest link and work that," Robbins says. "Nowadays, as technology gets better and security systems get harder to break through, the weakest link in any system is the human running...
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Are we going to need TSA backdoors to encryption
...Appeals about the governments right to search, seize and copy laptops and other electronic devices at our borders. Two groups that don't often find themselves on the same side of issues, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) have filed briefs with the court asking them to strike...
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Federal judge lands in hot water over explicit images on Web site
The chief judge of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has recused himself from an obscenity trial he was overseeing after the Los Angeles Times reported that it found sexual photos and videos on his personal Web site
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