Computers

British Library reveals £400,000 plan to rebuild after “catastrophic” ransomware attack

World-famous library is still battling to recover from an incident described as one of the worst in British history.

Now, almost one year after the incident, the world-famous library has revealed details of its £400,000 plan to move forward from the disaster – which left it with a website that still doesn’t have a proper Content Management System (CMS) and forced the ongoing closure of both physical and virtual archives.

The Strangest Computer Manual Ever Written

In the early 1980s, when the Apple II came out, a company called Franklin made a knock-off version of the same computer. It was a pretty blatant copy, which Apple wasn%u2019t happy about, but the law wasn%u2019t clear yet on whether operating systems could be protected by copyright. Apple eventually sued Franklin, and the court ruled that operating systems could in fact be protected. That put an end to Franklin computers.

It’s dark and funny and unlike anything else

DoubleClick has more on you than you think.

A California woman filed suit yesterday against DoubleClick,
accusing the Web advertising firm of unlawfully obtaining
and selling
consumers\’ private information.
News.com has a
Story about the
first lawsuit over privacy concerns with ad tracking
software on the net.

\”
DoubleClick\’s new privacy
policy
states
that the company plans to use this information to build a
database
profiling consumers. The database will include consumers\’
names; addresses;
retail, catalog and online purchase histories; and
demographic data,
according to t

A California woman filed suit yesterday against DoubleClick,
accusing the Web advertising firm of unlawfully obtaining
and selling
consumers\’ private information.
News.com has a
Story about the
first lawsuit over privacy concerns with ad tracking
software on the net.

\”
DoubleClick\’s new privacy
policy
states
that the company plans to use this information to build a
database
profiling consumers. The database will include consumers\’
names; addresses;
retail, catalog and online purchase histories; and
demographic data,
according to t\”


While Net users aren\’t informed or aware that they are
receiving a
DoubleClick cookie unless their browser is configured to
alert them, they
can disable the cookies at DoubleClick\’s Web sit