Internet Archive
Fraud - Hackers, crakers, spam and other pirates
There are several kinds of fraud, whose goals are different, but equally damaging consequences.
The first is a kind of games, challenge for small (or grandparents) of the computer geniuses who “enter” in the systems and leave a trace of their passage, and often some damage in the data [...]
The network INTERNET, originally reserved for the military communications networks USA and a little later at the universities, was opened to the public in 1994 and, to this day (March 2002), it must rely more than six hundred million people in more than a hundred countries.
The official figures were 377 million in September 2000, and [...]
Towards the liberalization of domain names from 1 January 2009 …
0 Comments Published July 16th, 2008 in InternetThe Icann, the body responsible for domain names on the net, decided after his 32nd international meeting (which ran from June 23 to 27), to extend the possibilities of filing names domain. This liberalization of domain names aims to relieve the canvas billions of domain names ending with “. Com. The Icann wishes to create [...]
How to Use Trademarks
0 Comments Published May 10th, 2008 in Business, Internet, Michigan Law, TrademarkUse it or lose it.
—Popular saying
Who steals my purse, steals trash…but he that filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed….
—Shakespeare
Today’s businesses use a number of trademarks and service marks daily. They may be words or phrases which are unique and original to the [...]
Web 2.0, Wikipedia, and the Quantity-Over-Quality Problem: Update
0 Comments Published August 15th, 2007 in Internet, NewsHere’s an update to my post on The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen, and “the Wikipedia Problem.”
Virgil Griffith, a CalTech graduate student, has built a search tool that traces the addresses of those who are editing Wikipedia.
The not surprising answers: Diebold — to suppress criticism of their electronic voting machines and to play down [...]






































