Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Science & Technology

This book explores what the American Civil Liberties Union calls the "third era" in cyberspace, in which filters "fundamentally alter the architectural structure of the Internet, with significant implications for free speech." Although courts and nongovernmental organizations increasingly insist upon constitutional and other legal guarantees of a freewheeling Internet, multi-national corporations compete to produce tools and strategies for making it more predictable. When Google attempted to improve our access to information containing in books and the World Wide Web, copyright litigation...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2016, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in May/June 2016. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to free, libre, and open source software, including: organizational aspects of communities; organizational adoption; participation of women; software maintenance and evolution; open standards and open data; collaboration; hybrid communities; code reviews; and...

This book explores the extraordinary difficulties a nation-state s law enforcement and military face in attempting to prevent cyber-attacks. In the wake of recent assaults including the denial of service attack on Estonia in 2007 and the widespread use of the Zeus Trojan Horse software, Susan W. Brenner explores how traditional categories and procedures inherent in law enforcement and military agencies can obstruct efforts to respond to cyberthreats. Brenner argues that the use of a territorially-based system of sovereignty to combat cyberthreats is ineffective, as cyberspace erodes the...

This fully revised and updated edition begins with insights into the scope, importance and continuing growth opportunities in the nutraceutical and functional food industries and explores the latest regulatory changes and their impacts. The book demonstrates the global scenario of the acceptance and demand for these products and explores the regulatory hurdles and claim substantiation of these foods and dietary supplements, as well as addressing the intricate aspects of manufacturing procedures.

As the public gains confidence in the quality of these products based on sophisticated...

The book develops a general legal theory concerning the liability for offenses involving artificial intelligence systems. The involvement of the artificial intelligence systems in these offenses may be as perpetrators, accomplices or mere instruments. The general legal theory proposed in this book is based on the current criminal law in most modern legal systems.

In most modern countries, unmanned vehicles, sophisticated surgical systems, industrial computing systems, trading algorithms and other artificial intelligence systems are commonly used for both industrial and personal...

In den letzten Jahren hat sich das Internet schnell zu einem massiven wirtschaftlichen Betatigungsfeld entwickelt, leider auch fur illegale Unternehmungen. Das Ausnutzen von Schwachstellen in IKT-Systemen ist inzwischen ein profitables Geschaftsmodell. Das staatlich geforderte Forschungsprojekt CAIS beschaftigte sich deshalb mit der Implementierung eines Cyber Attack Information Systems auf nationaler Ebene mit dem Ziel, die Widerstandsfahigkeit der heutigen vernetzten Systeme zu starken und ihre Verfugbarkeit und Vertrauenswurdigkeit zu erhohen. Hauptziele dieses Projektes waren die...

Man kann online wahlen, Rechnungen bezahlen und Tickets kaufen aber wie sicher ist das? Uberall lauern Viren, Spam, Hackerangriffe und sogar Cyber-Spione. Wie kann man sich schutzen und wie sollte man dem Phanomen Cyber-Crime begegnen? Der bekannte Security-Experte Eddy Willems gibt einen Uberblick uber Online-Gefahren und Moglichkeiten, sich vor ihnen zu schutzen. Er erlautert spannend die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft des Cyber-Crime.