I was reading an article in the province today that sparked my interest and how it could affect hosting and hosting customers.

The article says…

“The RCMP has urged the Harper government to reintroduce a controversial bill that would force Internet service providers to turn over personal information on subscribers, arguing the lack of such legislation has already had “serious consequences” on investigations, newly released documents show.”

Basically what this means if the law is passed is that the RCMP would be able to seize customer details of anyone they want without going through a judge or showing just cause for seizing the information.

If this scares you then you should contact your local MLA to discuss it with them and let them know your thoughts on the issue. Personally I do understand why the RCMP want the law passed but I also feel that we already have procedures in place that do not stumble on civil liberties.

What are your thoughts?

Congratulations to this weeks Easter geek Matt who is still in the lead. Are there no other geeks that can step up to Matt? This weeks questions are:

1. What is an Easter Egg in terms of computers?
2. What colour of laser does a standard DVD-RW use?
3. What year did Mac stop using the Motorola 680×0 processors?
4. What scripting language was created by Rasmus Lerdorf?
5. Name the 2 founder of Yahoo!?

This week Versign increased prices of .com and .net domain names. It is said they will continue to raise the prices 7% each year for 4 years. From this 7% increase Versign adds another 27 million on to their bottom line.

I think with the way the internet is going that this move is almost a move in the wrong direction. If you ask what it is that Versign does to earn that money it is not very much. They hold meetings to decided on policies and have servers that keep databases of details secure.

What is your thoughts on this increase?

Another cartoon created by creative genius  Matthew Schmoll. 
If you have an idea for a future comic or would like to submit your own BlueFur cartoon let us know in a comment.

 

Last night Netenberg updated both Gallery and WordPress…

- Gallery: 2.1.2 -> 2.2.1
- WordPress: 2.1.2 -> 2.1.3

If you use either of these software’s or both I suggest you upgrade.

We posted last month that we are launching an Anti-Phishing Plug-in for Outlook. We still need beta testers for this to ensure it works with Windows 98 and Vista on Outlook 2000 or 2007. If you have one of these please comment and we will send you the details to installing the plug-in.

If you want to see what it does here is an example screenshot.

In the above example you will see the real link in brackets so that you can decide if this is a safe link you wish to click on.