Sybreon Ones Nought

The current sedition trial of RPK is a fairly interesting. I think that it is the first high profile case that involves a serious crime and computers. I find it interesting because computer forensics is being introduced as evidence. However, things did not turn out quite as the prosecution expected as the prosecution witness seems to have testified that no evidence was found in the RPK's computers. According to ...

It seems that RPK is being charged with sedition. I find that rather curious simply because I'm not sure if he had actually committed any act of sedition. According to the article in TheStar, he had written a blog entry entitled "Let's send the Altantuya murderers to hell". In that entry, he had implicated the involvement of our DPM and his wife in the scandal. Alright, obviously RPK should ...

In light of recent developments in Malaysia, with the computers of certain prominent anti-establishment bloggers, consistently being confiscated for dubious investigative purposes, I thought that it might be a suitable time to write a little about information security. The whole idea behind information security isn't to foil justice, but to make sure that the rights of people are not infringed. With harddisk sizes going into the Terabyte range, ...

I always find it interesting when news about Malaysia makes it onto Slashdot. Today, something did make it: an article from CNN about politics and blogging. It's not about how blogs have affected the political climate in Malaysia, but about the problem endemic with the establishment, i.e. short-sighted stoopidity. From the article: Abdul Rahman Dahlan, secretary general of the United Malays National Organization party's youth wing, said all those ...