Gregg Keizer reports: People using the Firesheep add-on may be breaking federal wiretapping laws, legal experts said today. Or maybe not. “I honestly don’t know the answer,” said Phil Malone, a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School as well as the director of the school’s Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet…
Category: Breaches
Yemeni student arrested over UPS, FedEx cargo bombs released; she’s victim of ID theft
ID theft is never good, but here’s another example of how potentially serious the consequences can be. Helen Kennedy reports: The 22-year-old Yemeni coed arrested for mailing the two Al Qaeda cargo bombs was released Sunday after officials determined she was a victim of identity theft. “Another woman had used her name and ID. Authorities…
Students accused of secretly recording Tyler Clementi withdraw from Rutgers after tragedy
Kelly Heyboer and Amy Ellis Nutt report: One of the two students accused of secretly using a webcam to watch Tyler Clementi in an intimate encounter with another man has withdrawn from the university — but she hopes to eventually return to classes, friends said. Molly Wei, 18, e-mailed professors to get assignments and continued…
Barrichello wins lawsuit against Google
The Associated Press reports: A judge has ordered Google Brasil to pay $118,000 to Formula One’s Rubens Barrichello for failing to remove from the social-networking site fake profiles that mocked the Brazilian driver. The judge says Google took too long to remove the profiles after being notified by Barrichello. The decision by a tribunal court…