In June 2010, Andrew Auernheimer, a well-known Internet-security expert, discovered a gaping hole in AT&T's website that exposed 114,000 e-mail addresses belonging to the wireless giant's Apple iPad customers. · http://business.time.com/2013/03/19/u-s-hacker-crackdown-sparks-debate-over-computer-fraud-law/?xid=gonewsedit&google_editors_picks=truehttp://

We often say, upon the passing of a friend or loved one, that the world is a poorer place for the loss. But with the untimely death of programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, this isn't just a sentiment; it's literally true. Worthy, important causes will surface without a champion equal to their measure. Technological problems will go unsolved, or be solved a little less brilliantly than they might have been. And that's just what we know. The world is robbed of a half-century of all the things we can't even imagine Aaron would have accomplished with the remainder of his life. · http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/aaron-swartz/

The Berne Convention is the primary international legislation covering copyright protection. This fact sheet explains the Berne Convention and how the rules of the convention are applied. · http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p08_berne_convention

American foreign ministers pass a motion backing the "inviolability of diplomatic missions" amid the UK and Ecuador's row over Julian Assange. · http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19377110

Today ushers in a new provision of the health reform law that makes additional preventive health services – from contraception to HPV testing -- available for free to an estimated 47 million women. · http://women.webmd.com/news/20120801/no-cost-contraception-starts-today

Articles 77 through 134 of the UCMJ are known as the "punitive articles," -- that is, specific offenses which, if violated, can result in punishment by court-martial. Here is information about Article 134—General article. · http://usmilitary.about.com/od/punitivearticles/a/134.htm

Read 'CISPA supporters list: 800+ companies that could help Uncle Sam snag your data' on Digital Trends. As the campaign against the Cyber Intelligence... · http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/cispa-supporters-list-800-companies-that-could-help-uncle-sam-snag-your-data/

When President Barack Obama signed the health care bill two years ago, the legal challenges to the law were widely belittled as long shots — at best. But as the cases head to the Supreme Court this week, what looked to many like far-out legal arguments to undo “Obamacare” don’t seem so zany anymore. “If you don’t... · http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74429.html