Perhaps the title is a little over dramatic, but Australia’s move to begin filtering the internet has left me wondering what effect this might have on other western nations. According to articles on the ABC, the BBC and the CBC, the Australian government is due to start a series of field trials to filter [...]
12.4.08 | Internet, Online Crime, Politics, Technology, World | Jason
Scratching an imaginary itch, the blogger tried to make sense of the data displayed on screen. The last five weeks had seen traffic to their main website more than double, thanks in part to the SEO work they had put into each of the thousand-plus blog articles that had been written since college. [...]
10.27.08 | Internet, Online Crime | Jason
An interesting phenomenon has been occurring the last few months and I, for one, am not happy to see it happening. After a few months of relative peacefulness, my server is starting to face an inundation of spam. There have only been a few services that I’ve signed up for since my last [...]
10.16.08 | Internet, Online Crime | Jason
Last week I was having a rather heated discussion with someone, let’s call him Kenji, at the local coffee house regarding online bullying. He had been rather adamant that people under the age of 17 should not be permitted to join chat rooms or have blogs, in the event that they’re bullied to the point [...]
10.13.08 | Health, Internet, Online Crime | Jason
This is the second of a multi-part series focusing on the many different forms of internet crime. I plan on looking at several different ways people use the internet to profit from various illegal activities, as well as examine different solutions that have been presented over the last few years. The final post in the [...]
04.23.08 | Internet, Online Crime | Jason
This is the first of a multi-part series focusing on the many different forms of internet crime. I plan on looking at several different ways people use the internet to profit from various illegal activities, as well as examine different solutions that have been presented over the last few years. The final post [...]
04.22.08 | Internet, Online Crime | Jason
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