Tech Risk & Security

Recently, I re-organised my research article on legislation on circumvention of TPM and published in PISA Journal . In this issue, there was an article on iSCSI Resilience and Security which is a very precise introduction for security professionals. Thanks for SC Leung's editions.

The legal battle on BitTorrent cases reached an end on 18 May 2007 and the full judgement released on Hong Kong Legal Information Institute On 12 Jan 2005, officers from HKSAR Custom Department raided thedefendant's (Mr. Chan) home after tracking his address from an online forum. Mr. Chan he had uploaded 3 .torrent files on 10 Jan 2005 and 11 Jan 2005 to the forum and these enabled BT users to download copies ofmovies. In first instance, Mr. Chan was charged by virtue of section118(1)(f) of the Copyright Ordinance, Cap 528 and of obtaining access to a computer with dishonest intent, contrary to section 161(1) (c) ofthe Crimes Ordinance, Cap 200. But in the final judgement in the Court of Final Appeal, the 5 judges unanimously dismissed Mr Chan appeal andhe was convicted of 118(1)(f) of the Copyright Ordinance only. This was a high profiled case and the HKSAR government launched propaganda on their determination on combating the copyright battle. Since charges was brought to the cou...

I joined a discussion forum oragnised by Legislator CK SIn on 26 Apr at HKPC where a group of industry leaders are invited to express their view on Hong Kong Government consultation paper on new copyright legislations. The speakers concentrated on two major themes: 1 Criminalisation of infringing downloading 2 Requiring ISP to keep IP-to-Physical Address records One important discussion item was that almost everyone acknowledged the fact that a viable business model is needed for substantial development of online contents. But when there is no widely adopted business model, legislations are considered necessary. PISA is monitoring these developments and will submit our views to the government.