Tag: internet
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#TPP: The Biggest Threat to the Internet You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is being negotiated in secret between more than 12 countries around the Pacific region. Find out why it’s the biggest threat to the Internet you’ve probably never heard of. from Electronic Frontier FoundationDirected and animated by Santiago Rocha.
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U.S. House Shamefully Passes CISPA
For the second year in a row, the House voted to approve CISPA, a bill that would allow companies to bypass all existing privacy law to spy on communications.
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Internet Remains Unregulated After UN Treaty Blocked
A proposed global telecoms treaty that would give national governments control of the internet has been blocked by the US and key western and African nations.
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UN Control Freaks To Decide Internet’s Future
When delegates gather in Dubai in December for an obscure UN agency meeting, fighting is expected to be intense over proposals to rewrite global telecom rules to effectively give the United Nations control over the Internet.
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Internet Archive unleashes 1PB of data through BitTorrent
from computerworld.com: The Internet Archive, a non-profit project established to act as an online library of that preserves digital information, has to date offered up nearly a petabyte of content via the BitTorrent file-sharing site. In a blog post, The Internet Archive said it is offering 1.5 million torrents including live music concerts, the Prelinger…
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Google’s ‘Chairman’ Predicts End Of China’s Firewall
from pcmag.com: Following Google’s high-profile spat with China over censorship in 2010, the company has been mostly candid about its disagreements with the country’s Internet policies. However, those comments have usually been tempered by the silent understanding that China must be dealt with in some fashion. But in a new interview, Google executive chairman Eric…
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‘Leap Second Bug’ Causes Glitches for Major Websites, Airlines
from datacenterknowledge.com: Computer problems with the Amadeus airline reservation system caused long lines and traveler delays at airports across Australia this weekend, as the outage wreaked havoc with the check-in systems used by Qantas and Virgin Australia. The outage appears to be related to the “Leap Second Bug” in which the addition of a single…
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New Zealand Judge Rules Kim DotCom Warrants Invalid
High Court judge finds search warrants were too general and rules the data in cloned drives should not have been released to the FBI.
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Is Anonymous Controlled Opposition?
A rumor storms cyberspace hacker group Anonymous threatens to crash internet! Nibletz.com covers story with suggested target date of March 31st.
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al-qaida online jihadism overlooked
A Danger Room article reports Obama’s counterterrorism crew missing big picture by focusing on physical war theaters and ignoring internet.”As the United States attacks al-Qaida’s physical safe havens, the terrorist response is to congregate in online spaces, where they can’t be blown up by a Hellfire missile or shot by a SEAL.” The article does…
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FBI Tracking “Suspects” Online
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made in 2007 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), reveals FBI using secret spyware.
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Assange: Internet Greatest Spying Machine
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange warned Cambridge students, who waited hours to hear him speak, internet is “greatest spying machine the world has ever seen,” in article at guardian.co.uk.
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algeria shuts down the net as protest mounts
There are reports out of Algeria, the government has deleted internet and facebook accounts across the country, according to an article at The Telegraph. “‘The government doesn’t want us forming crowds through the internet,’ said Rachid Salem, of Co-ordination for Democratic Change in Algeria.” The article reports 30,000 riot police on the streets of Algiers…
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Connect to Chaos: GM/IBM Give Chevy Volt Its Own IP Address
The Chevy Volt will be the first car of its type: not because it is a hybrid electric/petrol vehicle, but because GM plans to give each one the company sells its own IP address.
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white house calls for ‘identity ecosystem’ to protect online users
from eweek: The Obama Administration is committed to reducing Internet fraud by developing a comprehensive, national online identity strategy, United State Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said on Jan. 7. Cyber-security and digital identity was a “national top priority” issue, said Locke. Locke was joined by Howard Schmidt, the White House Cybersecurity coordinator, at the Stanford…