Criminalising torture and enforced disappearance in Thailand

Holding the Junta accountable: Chile's "sitios de memoria" and the history of torture, disappearance, and death.

Criminalising hacking tools

Making the sale, possession and distribution of the tools of hacking a criminal offence has obvious attractions. But many such tools are dual use and new laws run the risk of significantly inhibiting the activities of investigators, incident responders, penetration testers and academics. Recent UK attempts at framing such a law are discussed in order to show the broader problems of policy and w...

Complexities in Criminalising Denial of Service Attacks

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack on the Internet occurs when a deliberate attempt is made to stop a computer from performing its usual activities by having another computer create large amounts of specious traffic to it. The traffic may be valid requests made in an overwhelming volume or specially crafted protocol fragments that cause the serving machine to tie up significant resources to no us...

Tame to Torture: Psychosexual Correlations of Sex, Violence and Torture

This paper discusses the psychosexual correlations and psychological consequences related to torture and behavioral acts that are fundamentally torturous. The influence of participation by learning and the relationship of acts to thought and thought to acts are further discussed to raise awareness to the effects of torture on the torturer. Theories from multiple disciplines are presented in an ...

Flooding in Thailand and the problem of radioactive elements leakage

Sir, the big flooding in Thailand in 2011 is one of the problematic flooding in Asia. It causes several destroying to many things in the disaster areas. An important concern is on the effect on the setting with the radioactive elements usage. In Thailand, there are some places with radioactive elements including to the university, hospital as well as radioactive research center. Luckily, ...