We all know what P2P is. Most of us do use it, even if we won’t admit it. The lazy ones among us would perhaps pick a few DVDs off the fella who brings the albums to the mamak stall. But then, he too downloaded it and burnt it on a DVD for your convenience. But now, Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob wants to make sure that if you do use P2P (or torrents as he says specifically), you would be...

The big tech (and privacy !) news of yesterday was the exposure of a second super administrator access to Telekom Malaysia’s Unifi (HSBB) service. First discovered by rizvanrp, and posted to lowyatt.net, it exposes the existence of a second level of access, and how to trivially guess the username and password used to access it. As expected, there was an outcry from Unifi users (all 1,700 of them) about this possible invasion of...

The internet is a wonderful thing, it has actually made things literally come a lot closer and done wonders for the publishing and content world. No more are content producers beholden to publishers and TV networks or movie studios. They’re now able to close that gap to the end consumer, just as the ordinary joe can now also produce content and compete with traditional content producers. This has allowed individual and...