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The Internet

Submission + - Karl Auerbach: ICANN is the USSR of the Internet

Submitted by gnaremooz
gnaremooz writes: Karl Auerbach, the last publicly elected board member at ICANN, has been involved with internet development almost since the inception of the internet itself, and served as North America's direct representative on ICANN's Board of Directors. The Register thought Auerbach would have some interesting things to say about recent developments at the controversial group that runs the internet we all know and love.
The Courts

Submission + - U.K. outlaws denial-of-service attacks

Submitted by gnaremooz
gnaremooz writes: A U.K. law has been passed that makes it an offense to launch denial-of-service attacks:
Among the provisions of the Police and Justice Bill 2006, which gained Royal Assent on Wednesday, is a clause that makes it an offense to impair the operation of any computer system. Other clauses prohibit preventing or hindering access to a program or data held on a computer, or impairing the operation of any program or data held on a computer.
Wouldn't this outlaw any kind of copy-protection system? Anyone want to be a test case?

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