http://www.lukasfeiler.com News from Lukas Feiler http://www.lukasfeiler.com/lectures_linuxwochen2008/index.html After having given a talk on computer crime law at the Linuxwochen in 2006 and on the EU Data Retention Directive in 2007, it was finally Copyright Law's turn in 2008 :-) http://www.lukasfeiler.com/articles.html This article (written in German) provides a tutorial for how to most effectively use my PEAR package XML_Query2XML. http://www.lukasfeiler.com/articles.html This article discusses a legislative proposal by the Austrian Parliament that if implemented, would not only fail to achieve its objective but would also pose serious limits on today's e-commerce. http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Query2XML this release adds support for PEAR Net_LDAP2, implements 'limit' and 'offset' options for the MDB2 and DB drivers, improves the logging functionality and consolidates the unit tests http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Query2XML The PEAR package XML_Query2XML has now more than 10.000 downloads :-) http://www.daniela-list.at/index.php/2008/03/14/radio-netwatcher-heute-wieder-mit-renommierten-studiogasten/ live on Radio ORANGE/Netwatcher together with Dr. Lennart Binder (the defense attorney in Austria's first government hacking case) and Dr. Kurt Einzinger, Secretary General of Internet Service Providers Austria (ISPA). http://www.daniela-list.at/index.php/2008/02/29/150-jubilaum-radio-netwatcher-studiogaste-alexander-zachlif-und-lukas-feilerinternetexperte/ live on Radio ORANGE/Netwatcher together with Alexander Zach, member of the Austrian Parliament: discussing secret surveillance without judicial oversight and the new German Federal Constitutional Court's ruling on the constitutional right to confidentiality and integrity of one's computer system http://rocketscience.lukasfeiler.com/bigqmail.patch the combined patch now contains the outgoingips patch and a dns patch to better handle DNS responses larger than 512 bytes http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Query2XML this stable release introduces no changes since 1.6.0RC1 http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Query2XML This release candidate adds LDAP support and implements an open driver architecture http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Query2XML no changes since 1.5.0RC1 http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Query2XML This release candidate improves performance by at least 30% http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Query2XML This release adds support for PDO - thereby supporting SQLite 3 http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Query2XML This release provides enhanced support for CDATA sections, binary data (via base64 encoding) and dynamic XML element names. http://www.lukasfeiler.com/articles.html This article describes the first-sale doctrine as it applies to Austrian copyright law. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-query2xml/ The article was written by Vikram Vaswani. http://www.lukasfeiler.com/articles.html#cyberlaw The article describes the EU Data Retention Directive and its implementation in Austria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMaOiZtGMSo Recorded May 31 2007; German only http://sendungsarchiv.o94.at/get.php?id=094pr1454 Recorded May 31 2007; German only http://www.lukasfeiler.com/lectures_linuxwochen2007/index.html The directive itself, an extensive analysis by the european center for e-commerce and internet law, related movies, documentaries and more http://www.lukasfeiler.com/Linuxwochen2007_DataRetention.pdf More information to follow http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Query2XML This release makes it easier to dump all contents of a database to XML http://rocketscience.lukasfeiler.com/bigqmail.patch the make commands that need to be run were missing http://linuxwochen.at/2007/Programm_Wien:_%C3%9Cberwachungsstaat_vs_B%C3%BCrgerrechte:_Die_europ%C3%A4ische_Data_Retention_Richtlinie The EU Data Retention Directive as well as its Austrian implementation will be subject to this talk. Ways to circumvent the new surveillance measures will also be covered (e.g. EFF's Tor). http://www.qmail.org/top.html#200704210 It's a new version of a combined patch for carrier-grade qmail mail server installations and includes netqmail-1.05-tls-smtpauth, the validrcptto.cdb patch, the big-concurrency.patch, the doublebounce-trim.patch and the big-ext-todo patch (EXTTODO patch and big-todo patch) http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Query2XML This release adds the capability to handle data sources that use another character encoding than ISO-8859-1; it is now also possible to use to use another XML encoding than UTF-8 (e.g. ISO-8859-1) http://rocketscience.lukasfeiler.com/bigqmail.patch It's a combined patch for carrier-grade qmail mail server installations and includes netqmail-1.05-tls-smtpauth, the validrcptto.cdb patch, the big-concurrency.patch, the doublebounce-trim.patch and the big-ext-todo patch (EXTTODO patch and big-todo patch) http://www.lukasfeiler.com/articles.html#cyberlaw Explains why botmasters might not be criminally liable in Austria http://query2xml.sourceforge.net I am proud to announce the second stable release of XML_Query2XML: it is now possible to integrate other XML data sources http://www.lukasfeiler.com/articles.html#ThreatUpdates Discusses the nature of and the criminal liability for Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) Attacks http://query2xml.sourceforge.net I am proud to announce the first stable release of XML_Query2XML http://query2xml.sourceforge.net Due to security considerations this release does not use eval() anymore http://www.lukasfeiler.com/articles.html (output is an Austrian magazine for business & IT) http://query2xml.sourceforge.net This release adds support for the database abstraction library ADOdb http://www.lukasfeiler.com/articles.html#ThreatUpdates Discusses the criminal liability for social engineering in Austria http://query2xml.sourceforge.net This release fixes a minor bug with PHP5 prior to 5.1.0 http://www.lukasfeiler.com/articles.html (output is an Austrian magazine for business & IT) http://www.lukasfeiler.com/Tor.pdf This article (written in German) shows why Tor makes the EU data retention directive useless http://www.lukasfeiler.com/articles.html#ThreatUpdates Think of a hacker building a network of 10,000+ compromised machines ... http://www.lukasfeiler.com/articles.html The new sections also includes regularly published Informations Securty Threat Updates http://www.lukasfeiler.com/teaching_linuxwochen/index.html Today I gave a talk at the Linuxwochen in Vienna on computer crime law - presentation slides and some additional information are now available http://query2xml.sourceforge.net XML_Query2XML finally got accepted as an official PEAR package! See also http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Query2XML http://www.lukasfeiler.com/favorite_books/index.html all are available online: includes some papers from phrack, the famous Empirical Study of the Reliability of UNIX Utilities, a couple of Spafford articles and lots more http://rocketscience.lukasfeiler.com/qmail/ includes new patch for Clam AV v0.88.1 http://www.lukasfeiler.com/favorite_books/index.html ISO/IEC 27001, 17799, German BSI standards, NIST publications; the common criteria and the orange book are still to follow http://www.lukasfeiler.com/Zur_strafrechtlichen_Beurteilung_von_IT-Sicherheitsluecken.pdf Zur strafrechtlichen Beurteilung von IT-Sicherheitsluecken http://rocketscience.lukasfeiler.com/qmail/ qmail with TLS and SMTP auth & Courier-IMAP/POP3 & MySQL & Clam AV & SpamAssassin - all with virtual domain support http://www.lukasfeiler.com/nyc/ it contains a Google Map Mashup and two posters http://query2xml.sourceforge.net full PEAR coding convention complience http://query2xml.sourceforge.net new exception handling, MDB2 support and new unit tests