Tag: blacklist
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Taiwanese Users Thwart Government Plans to Introduce Internet Blacklist Law
from EFF.org: Taiwan’s intellectual property office proposed a new Internet blacklist law that would have targeted websites for their alleged use in copyright infringement. The initiative would have forced Internet Service Providers to block a list of domains or IP addresses connected to websites and services found to enable “illegal” file sharing. In the face…
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7/28 Defcon: Black Ops, Blacklist, #FuckYouWashington
Murdoch’s Fox ran black ops dept, Fmr exec claims // British telecom ordered to blacklist Usenet search engine // Anonymous gets cyber tsar to resign // ISS to crash into the ocean in 2020 // China reportedly developing EMP weapons // Boeing’s millennium falcon floats using Nazi technology // DHS fears modified Stuxnet could attack…
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5/26 Defcon: Stuxnet, Square & Born This Way
Senior defense official squirms on US involvement in Stuxnet // Flashback: Israel tested Stuxnet at Dimona // Senator blocks bill giving feds power to blacklist piracy sites // Square tries to make wallets obsolete // Google faces lawsuit over mobile phone ‘wallet’
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end of the internet as we know it?
US Senate Committee in a lame duck Congressional session passed recently the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA). Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, calls it an ‘internet censorship bill’. “Clearly this was funded by media cartels, but this has a lot more to do with Internet censorship as it does about copyright…