The ghost of Lawrence MacAulay haunts me. It may haunt all of Canada if we don't get our heads straight and start beating down overreactive and intrusive legislation drafted by people who don't understand technology.
Various Canadian police organizations have long clamoured for significantly expanded wiretapping rights. Lawrence MacAulay, Martin Cauchon and Allan Rock [...]
Tags: · Canada, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Freedom, Government, Information Security, Law, Personal, Politics, Privacy, Ranting, Technology
Matt Haughey wrote recently about the point at which he lost all respect for Bill Gates. The issue turns out to be Gates' position on the legalities surrounding personal online publishing, which he he equates as being equal to print media. There are all sorts of open-ended questions here, and I don't think [...]
Tags: · Computers, Freedom, Information Security, Internet, Media, Movies, Music, Privacy, Security, Software, Technology, Television
I just got off the phone, and it looks like I won't be spending the weekend of December 18th in New York. All 1,300 suites at the Milford Plaza Hotel are completely booked. I never actually intended to visit, you see, but I called anyway. Confused yet?
It isn't a very big secret [...]
Tags: · Computers, Hacking, Information Security, Internet, New York, Privacy, Ranting, Site Information, System Administration, Technology, Weblogs