The Not In Our Name
register will act as an historical record of those Australians who do not support an attack on IRAQ by Australia without UN approval
Galvanised by the Anglo-American attack on Iraq, thousands of anti-war activists around the world have taken to the streets, with more than 1,000 people arrested while demonstrating in San Francisco
Singapore’s Internet registry has withdrawn its trademark application for the Internet domain name of .sg, following a hostile public reaction to the unprecedented move
The retarded monkey boy and his allies are unlikely to face trial for war crimes although many nations and legal experts say a strike on Iraq without an explicit UN mandate breaches international law
Peace activists girding for a possible US-led war against Iraq are increasingly turning to the Web to voice their opposition and organise meetings and demonstrations against military action
The American Academy of Diplomacy web site has been hit by attackers who posted a page stating no war
, as the crisis over Iraq heads toward military confrontation
Ipsos-Reid has released its latest research on file trading. Bottom line, the great majority of users do not believe they are breaking the law. Only 9% feel there is anything wrong with their actions. With 40 million Americans identified as active file traders this is indeed stirring information, though not surprising. Another stat, 73% of US downloaders report that their motivation for trading was to sample music for later purchase
An American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, has been run over and killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza
US Government agencies opened a package mailed between two Associated Press reporters last September and seized a copy of an eight-year-old unclassified FBI lab report without obtaining a warrant or notifying the news agency
About 100 anti-war demonstrators marched through a mall Wednesday to protest the arrest of a shopper who wore a t-shirt that read Peace on Earth
and Give Peace a Chance
East Timor has bowed to intense political pressure from Australia and will today rush through the signing of an agreement to clear the way for joint development of the vast oil and gas reserves of the Timor Sea
Dozens of young Iranians have been detained for unlawful actions
after using a web site to arrange dates
A journalist attends the World Economic Forum and writes her friends an email about the experience. Two weeks later, that email is on the Web, people she’s never met are correcting her spelling, and the journalist is vowing to go back to longhand
A German university was accused by the BSA of pirating MS Office, because they mirrored OpenOffice.org. The scripts from the BSA only check for Office
in the filename and then automatically send out notices to the ftp administrators — via Slashdot
Andrew O’Conner, a former public defender, was abruptly interrupted at the St John’s College Library when city police officers arrested him at the computer terminal he was using, handcuffed him, and brought him for questioning by Secret Service agents who accused him of making threatening remarks about the retarded monkey boy in an Internet chat room. Interestingly enough, US senators from both parties are accusing the FBI of excessive secrecy and demanding details of how federal agents use antiterrorist laws to spy on people’s Internet activity
The South Australian Government is drafting legislation to fight identity theft — the process of assuming another persons identity for nefarious reasons
One of the Federal Government’s main policy objectives, a free trade agreement with the United States, could damage the interests of farmers and hurt Australia’s broader economic interests, according to an independent report
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service took careful note last summer as computer hobbyists Jason Kaczor and Brad Haines invited participants to help find access points to wireless networks in Red Deer, Alta
Computer games that simulate killings of particular races are being sold over the internet and Australian laws are ineffective to deal with them
Greenpeace activists, some dressed as tigers, forced the closure of Esso’s British headquarters and 100 petrol stations yesterday as a protest against what it called the firm’s fuelling of the Iraq crisis
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