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Introduction
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In July 2008 I earned my law degree from the University of Vienna.
Law turned out to be as much fun as programming even though it is a quite different way of
reasoning :) In 2007, I spent a semester at
Santa Clara University
studying U.S. information technology law.
Since October 2005 I am working for the
European Center for E-Commerce and Internet Law, since Oct 2007 in the position of Vice Director.
Additionally, I am working (remotely) as an application developer and mail server administrator for
Empowered Media, New York, NY. I am also doing some
technical as well as legal consulting for NEA, a software company based in Vienna.
In the past I also worked at Fiaxon Ltd, Leeds, UK and
taught TCP/IP networking and PHP & MySQL application development at the SAE Institute Vienna.
Somewhere in between I find time to continue the development of my
open source projects, most notably
PEAR XML_Query2XML and
lukasfeiler.com-bigqmail.patch
Please feel free to contact me by writing to
lukas.feiler@lukasfeiler.com.
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2008-09-04: My article "Personenbezogene Daten: Data Breach Notification" was published in OUTPUT
This article discusses the purpose of Data Breach Notification Laws.
2008-07-07: My seminar paper "The Data Retention Directive" was published on rechtsprobleme.at
This paper discusses the legality of the Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC) with regard to European fundamental rights and the competences of the EC.
2008-07-02: My article "Offene Formate: Eine rechtliche Notwendigkeit" was published in OUTPUT
This article (written in German) describes circumstances under which European antitrust law might require the support for standardized document formats.
2008-05-16: My presentation slides for yesterday's talk "Open Source and Copyright Law" at the Vienna Linuxwochen 2008 are now online.
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 :-)
2008-05-12: My article "XML_Query2XML. Mit PHP von SQL zu XML" was published in PHPSolutions Magazine
This article (written in German) provides a tutorial for how to most effectively use my PEAR package XML_Query2XML.
2008-05-07: My article "Online-Vertrag: Abschluss nur nach Extra-Mail-Bestätigung?" was published in OUTPUT
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.
2008-05-02: XML_Query2XML v1.7.0 was released!
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
2008-03-20: XML_Query2XML downloaded 10.000 times!
The PEAR package XML_Query2XML has now more than 10.000 downloads :-)
2008-03-14: live on Radio ORANGE: discussing government hacking, the new police powers (Section 53 Sicherheitspolizeigesetz) and the data retention directive
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).
2008-02-29: live on Radio ORANGE: discussing secret surveillance without judicial oversight
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
2008-02-10: a new version of the lukasfeiler.com-bigqmail.patch is now available
the combined patch now contains the outgoingips patch and a dns patch to better handle DNS responses larger than 512 bytes
2008-01-06: XML_Query2XML v1.6.0 was released
this stable release introduces no changes since 1.6.0RC1
2008-01-02: XML_Query2XML v1.6.0RC1 was released
This release candidate adds LDAP support and implements an open driver architecture
2007-10-07: XML_Query2XML v1.5.0 was released
no changes since 1.5.0RC1
2007-09-30: XML_Query2XML v1.5.0RC1 was released
This release candidate improves performance by at least 30%
2007-09-03: XML_Query2XML v1.4.0 was released
This release adds support for PDO - thereby supporting SQLite 3
2007-08-26: XML_Query2XML v1.3.0 was released
This release provides enhanced support for CDATA sections, binary data (via base64 encoding) and dynamic XML element names.
2007-08-07: My article "Second Hand Software: Geschäfte mit Risiko" was published in OUTPUT
This article describes the first-sale doctrine as it applies to Austrian copyright law.
2007-07-25: IBM developerWorks published an article on my PEAR package XML_Query2XML: "Turn SQL into XML with PHP - Easily convert the results of a database query into an XML document"
The article was written by Vikram Vaswani.
2007-06-22: An article I co-authored "Vorratsdatenspeicherung - Kommt der Überwachungsstaat?" was published in Anwalt Aktuell
The article describes the EU Data Retention Directive and its implementation in Austria
2007-06-06: Watch my interview on Okto.TV regarding the EU Data Retnetion Directive
Recorded May 31 2007; German only
2007-06-03: Listen to my radio interview on Radio Orange regarding the EU Data Retnetion Directive
Recorded May 31 2007; German only
2007-06-02: Additional information about my lecture on the EU Data Retention Directive ("Überwachungsstaat vs Bürgerrechte") is now available
The directive itself, an extensive analysis by the european center for e-commerce and internet law, related movies, documentaries and more
2007-05-31: The presentation slides used for today's talk about the EU Data Retention Directive ("Überwachungsstaat vs Bürgerrechte") are now available
More information to follow
2007-05-26: XML_Query2XML v1.2.1 was released
This release makes it easier to dump all contents of a database to XML
2007-05-26: a new version of the lukasfeiler.com-bigqmail.patch is now available
the make commands that need to be run were missing
2007-05-01: Visit my talk at the Vienna LinuxWeeks 31. May 2007, discussing the EU Data Retention Directive ("Überwachungsstaat vs Bürgerrechte")
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).
2007-04-22: lukasfeiler.com-bigqmail-20070421.patch now also available via www.qmail.org
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)
2007-04-15: XML_Query2XML v1.2.0 was released
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)
2007-04-06: lukasfeiler.com-bigqmail-20070406.patch is now available
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)
2007-03-16: My article "Botnets: Spamming, Phishing und DDoS Attacks im großen Stil" was published in Anwalt Aktuell
Explains why botmasters might not be criminally liable in Austria
2007-02-03: XML_Query2XML v1.1.0 was released
I am proud to announce the second stable release of XML_Query2XML: it is now possible to integrate other XML data sources
2007-01-19: Threat Update: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Discusses the nature of and the criminal liability for Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) Attacks
2006-12-04: XML_Query2XML v1.0.0 was released
I am proud to announce the first stable release of XML_Query2XML
2006-11-04: XML_Query2XML v0.8.0 was released
Due to security considerations this release does not use eval() anymore
2006-11-01: My article "Zur Sinnhaftigkeit der europäischen Data Retention Richtlinie" was published in OUTPUT
(output is an Austrian magazine for business & IT)
2006-10-14: XML_Query2XML v0.7.0 was released
This release adds support for the database abstraction library ADOdb
2006-10-08: Threat Update: Social Engineering
Discusses the criminal liability for social engineering in Austria
2006-09-28: XML_Query2XML v0.6.1 was released
This release fixes a minor bug with PHP5 prior to 5.1.0
2006-07-29: My article "Haften Hersteller oder Händler für Sicherheitslücken in Standardsoftware?" was published in OUTPUT
(output is an Austrian magazine for business & IT)
2006-06-15: Tor - A technical analysis EFF's onion router
This article (written in German) shows why Tor makes the EU data retention directive useless
2006-06-14: Threat Update: Botnets - in depth legal and technical analysis
Think of a hacker building a network of 10,000+ compromised machines ...
2006-06-02: new section: Articles
The new sections also includes regularly published Informations Securty Threat Updates
2006-06-01: Linuxwochen - Hacking und Computerstrafrecht: presentation slides online
Today I gave a talk at the Linuxwochen in Vienna on computer crime law - presentation slides and some additional information are now available
2006-04-23: XML_Query2XML v0.6.0 released as official PEAR package
XML_Query2XML finally got accepted as an official PEAR package! See also http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Query2XML
2006-04-12: list of great IT security articles added to Favorite (IT-)Books
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
2006-04-09: lukasfeiler.com-qmail v0.1.1 released
includes new patch for Clam AV v0.88.1
2006-04-09: 18 information security standards addedd to Favorite (IT-)Books
ISO/IEC 27001, 17799, German BSI standards, NIST publications; the common criteria and the orange book are still to follow
2006-04-08: new seminar paper on cybercrime
Zur strafrechtlichen Beurteilung von IT-Sicherheitsluecken
2006-04-01: lukasfeiler.com-qmail released
qmail with TLS and SMTP auth & Courier-IMAP/POP3 & MySQL & Clam AV & SpamAssassin - all with virtual domain support
2006-03-19: new section "New York, NY" was added
it contains a Google Map Mashup and two posters
2006-03-17: Query2XML v0.5.1 released
full PEAR coding convention complience
2006-03-14: Query2XML v0.5.0 released
new exception handling, MDB2 support and new unit tests
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§ 25 MedienG
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This piece of Austrian legislation requires a maintainer of a web site
to publish his name and inhabitance. I believe that this takes away a very
important aspect of free speech
on the Internet: anonymity. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled 1995 in
McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission that anonymity is an aspect of the freedom of
speech protected by the First Amendment. Unfortunately we do not have something like the First Amendment in Austria.
In case you do not know how to run the Unix command whois lukasfeiler.com: my name is Lukas Feiler and I live in Vienna, Austria.
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