Two recent news stories suggest that the importance of open Internet connectivity is gaining increasing international recognition.
The UN’s Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression has published a report stressing the importance both of making internet infrastructure available to as much of the world’s population as [...]
Questions about my last posting on Nominet’s DNS domain suspension discussions, have got me thinking a bit more about my idea of “domains registered for a criminal purpose”. My suggestion is that these should be the only domains that a top-level registry can remove on its own, rather than asking for the decision to be [...]
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Monetary Penalties and Consents for Interceptions) Regulations 2011 are now in force. These make two changes to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000:
Creating monetary penalty notices (in effect fines, but imposed by a regulator rather than the courts) for unlawful interceptions of public communications networks that are unintentional (intentional [...]
An interesting presentation by Michael Brophy of Certification Europe at TERENA’s CSIRT Task Force meeting last week drew attention to three standards likely to be relevant to Incident Response Teams: ISO20000, ISO27001 and BS25999. Unfortunately getting copies of these standards involves payment, but the highlighted content suggested this may be worthwhile. Indeed some universities and [...]