I wrote recently about copyright law, in response to a magazine editor who was accused of stealing an article on apple pie and defended herself by saying everything on the Internet is public domain. That magazine, Cooks Source, is apparently closing after it and its advertisers have received hundreds of hostile emails and phone calls. [...]

Two million people were the victims of identity theft in 2008, an increase of 25 percent from 2007, according to a newly released survey from Javelin Strategy and Research. Where the victim can determine how the information was stolen, eleven percent was stolen via online scams, hacking, phishing, pretexting, etc. But half the information was [...]