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LifestreamSo, it turns out using a public email service isn’t entirely secure. What a shocker (Ars). According to a timeline compiled by users at the online chat board 4Chan, an anonymous poster appeared on the "Random" board known as /b/, claiming to have accessed Palin’s account. Skeptical posters apparently dismissed the claim as a hoax, [...]
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The infamous scum bag senator contacted Google to have a number of videos censored from Youtube on the grounds that they belonged to Islamic "terrorist" organizations. Google complied in a minority of cases and the scum bag senator issues a statement, contrary to fact, saying that Google removed all the videos. Senator Lieberman’s staff identified [...]
Sweden is doing alright in fact, at least considering the relatively low population density. With an average broadband speed of 4.9Mbps, the US is being Chariots of Fire-d by South Korea (49.5Mbps), Japan (63.6Mbps), Finland (21.7Mbps), Sweden (16.8Mbps), and France (17.6Mbps), among others. Not only that, but the price paid per megabyte in the US [...]
The FBI is increasingly resorting to “rickrolling” internet users by putting up fake content to snare what they claim to be presumptive criminals. These pranks are commonplace now, but be careful of what you click on and from whom. If that link points to anything even pretending to be child porn, that’s enough evidence for [...]
For a good reason – or so they claim … Lifted from Metafilter … Senator John McCain (R. – AZ) has introduced legislation [PDF] that would hold blogs responsible for all activity in their comments sections and user profiles. Provisions of the proposed bill include: (1) commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to [...]
Internet gambling: Who is really in charge of the internet? and the myth of the borderless internet. The myth of the borderless internet, never very credible to those who had any real understanding of the interplay between politics and technology that underpins the network, took another hit last week when the US Congress voted to [...]
But will ICANN comply, seeing as it would fly in the face of the claim that ICANN is independent? Here is a good example of what can happen when the organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses is subject to US laws and a litigation happy culture. A federal court has [...]
Gee, what a surprise. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said Tuesday that it had reached a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce that would technically keep the group under American control through 2011. U.S. government officials have repeatedly said they would relinquish control over ICANN, even going as far [...]
Sploid seems to be shutting down its operations. Bummer since there has rarely been a better electronic news outlet and aggregator. One that despite its tabloid appearance, and sometimes corny lead-ins, managed to cover stories that others just dreamt of having backbone enough to touch upon. Just like YouTube, Lebanon, Joe Lieberman, newspaper circulation and [...]
The US government may soon amend the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act in the latest Net-surveillance push and curtailing of civil liberties and the “dangerous and subversive” Internet to do the following, according to CNET. Require any manufacturer of “routing” and “addressing” hardware to offer upgrades or other “modifications” that are needed to support [...]
