Hello participants of Mailing List. Let's continue the topic of closing web sites due to legislation. Earlier I've wrote you concerning situation with EU Cookie Law. Also I've mentioned about my new article on this topic and recently it was published. At 11th of June my article "Fining or closing web sites due to legislation" was released in magazine Auditing & Standards 06/2012. In which I've wrote as about earlier-mentioned EU Cookie Law, as about Ukrainian Euro 2012 Law. And concerning the last law I've wrote an example of closed site (and the company itself), because of violation of the law. And that violation was artificially created by police - they abused the service to force it to break the law and to have legal motives for closing of the site and the company. This is interesting case, about which you can read in my new article and if you'll want I can write about it to the list. Since 2008 I've wrote large series of articles about closing web sites due to legislation. There were a lot of cases in Ukraine concerning multiple laws, where our law enforcements closed (temporarily or permanently) web sites. This information can be interesting for you, because similar laws can exist in other countries. Here is summary of the first five laws, according to which law enforcements closed web sites: 1. Spreading of secret materials (the first case of closing web site was in 2008). 2. Spreading of pornography (the first case of closing web site was in 2008). 3. Spreading of terrorist materials (the first cases of closing web sites was in 2009). 4. Spreading of personal data (there were no cases of closing web sites, but in 2010 I've predicted such possibility - it's interesting law and a lot of things were going during 2010-2012 around it, which delayed fines and sites closings, but soon or later the law will officially start to work). 5. Closing web sites for political motives (the first case of closing web site was in 2011). Analogically with earlier mentioned laws, in all these cases there is relation to security. I'm making such parallel in all such cases since 2008 - if web site will be hacked and illegal content (concerned to above-mentioned laws) will be published at web site, it will expose it to fines and/or closing. Later I'll write about the next laws. This is just summary, if you'll find interesting any of these cases then tell me and I'll write about it in details. Best wishes & regards, MustLive Administrator of Websecurity web site http://websecurity.com.ua