SAVING THE INTERNET

Jul 23, 2003 | Internet, law

Doc Searls, editor of The Linux Journal, has written an insightful article about the threat to the Internet and how to save it. He brings together the FCC media consolidation ruling, SCO’s copyright litigation over Linux, why broadband is under attack by telcos...

ICANN, VERISIGN, AND AMERICAN CONTROL OF THE “WORLD WIDE” WEB

Jun 23, 2003 | business, Internet

ICANN was intended to be an autonomous, independent body charged with making decisions about the World Wide Web, particularly concerning registration of domain names. Its main benefactor is Verisign, formerly Network Solutions, the company that at one time had a...

THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY

Mar 3, 2003 | business, Internet

Click here and spend some time with one of the most interesting and enlightening articles I’ve ever read about the technology industry. I’m impressed. It pulls information together from a huge variety of sources and presents it with remarkable insight and...

RIAA WEB SITE PUZZLE

Mar 1, 2003 | Internet

One of those odd little things that make you say, Hmmm. The RIAA is widely despised, for obvious reasons. Its web site has been hacked on a pretty regular basis for the last couple of years. Now it’s been offline for more than a week, the victim of a denial of...

VERISIGN DOMAIN MANAGEMENT

Nov 6, 2002 | Internet

Verisign built a distinguished name for itself as “Network Solutions,” with sole responsibility for handling domain names for many years. It was, hands down, the least friendly, most obnoxious company to deal with in United States history, with online tools to manage...

ATTACK ON THE INTERNET

Oct 22, 2002 | Internet, security

Here’s one that didn’t get reported widely. Yesterday afternoon, the largest and most sophisticated attack ever was launched against servers worldwide that play a crucial role in running the entire Internet. The Internet is enormously resilient and users never noticed...