Monthly Archives: March 2008

REAL ID Rant

By Michael Becker | Published: March 13, 2008
My state’s sen­a­tors (that’s Montana, by the way) rather rea­son­ably think that the REAL ID Act is a load of crap that won’t do a heck of a lot to pro­tect Americans from any­thing but will limit the amount of per­sonal free­dom peo­ple have from gov­ern­ment oversight. So this week, along with sen­a­tors from sev­eral [...]
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Lawmaker moves against the anonymous Internet

By Michael Becker | Published: March 11, 2008
According to CNET, a law­maker in Kentucky is push­ing a bill that would require peo­ple to post only their real names to Web sites, lest the own­ers of the sites face legal repercussions. Of course, this has a lot of peo­ple up in arms. The Internet has always been a haven for anony­mous writ­ing. Why [...]
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Bank drops lawsuit against Wikileaks

By Michael Becker | Published: March 6, 2008
The bank Julius Bear moved to with­draw its law­suit against the whistle-blower Web site Wikileaks. The bank said Wikileaks had dis­played stolen, con­fi­den­tial bank doc­u­ments on its site. A judge in California ordered the site taken off the Internet — mean­ing, as I under­stand it, that its name was removed from DNS registrars. The New [...]
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