Tag: lawsuits
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defcon 8/12: cyber lies & gag orders
cyber lie exposed: power plants not connected to internet* dhs needs to take threat of emp attack seriously, physicist warns* google ceo: no anonymity is the future of web* google raided by s. korea police street view probe* appeals court rules against secret police gps tracking* cars hacked through wireless tire sensors* geoeye & digitalglobe…
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Defcon 7/29: Leaky Lawsuits
100 million Facebook pages ‘leaked’ on torrent site // ‘Minority Report’ technology used by UK police to predict crimes // Tokyo trials digital billboards that scan passers-by // 2nd student sues school district over webcam spying
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US Declares iPhone ‘Jailbreaking’ Legal Over Apple Objections
Federal regulators lifted a cloud of uncertainty when they announced it was lawful to hack or “jailbreak” an iPhone, declaring Monday there was “no basis for copyright law to assist Apple in protecting its restrictive business model.”
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Defcon 6/24: More Leaks & Lawsuits
Ellsberg says US might ‘assassinate’ Wikileaks head // DARPA taking fire for its cyberwar range
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Florida Judge Rules Post On RateMyCop.com Is Protected Speech
A federal judge has struck down a Florida law prohibiting the publication of a police officer’s name, phone number or address, calling the statute an unconstitutional restraint on speech.
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Webcamgate Expands As Lawyers Say 1000s of Pictures Taken
A webcam spying scandal at a suburban Philadelphia school district is broadening, with lawyers claiming the district secretly snapped thousands of webcam images of students using school-issued laptops without the pupils’ knowledge or consent.
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yahoo beats feds in email privacy battle
from threat level: Yahoo prevailed Friday over Colorado federal prosecutors in a legal battle testing whether the Constitution’s warrant requirements apply to Americans’ e-mail. Saying the contested e-mail “would not be helpful to the government’s investigation,” (.pdf) the authorities withdrew demands for e-mail in a pending and sealed criminal case. For the moment, the move…
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fcc loses net neutrality battle against comcast
court: fcc had no right to sanction comcast for p2p blocking from washington post: Comcast on Tuesday won its federal lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission in a ruling that undermines the agency’s ability to regulate Internet service providers just as it unrolls a sweeping broadband agenda. The decision also sparks pressing questions on how…
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Defcon 4/1: CyberCensors & Torrents of Controversy
Censorship act: New amendment could block Wikileaks // Army intel ACORN-ing Wikileaks? Web publisher under attack // UK lords pass controversial internet piracy bill // Computer-controlled swarm of bacteria builds tiny pyramid
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Defcon 2/25 – Cryptome, Catastrophe, Echelon & CERN
Microsoft takes down whistleblower site, Cryptome.org* Update: Cryptome restored after Microsoft change of heart* Cyber attacks will ‘catastrophically’ spook public, warns GCHQ* Intel hit by cyber attack* Playstation 3: The future of big brother surveillance?* Chinese programmer fingered in Google attacks* US pinpoints coder behind Google attack* Echelon computers can’t cope with bad lines* Italian…
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defcon 12/12: regimes, lists, biometrics & privacy promis
how to shut down the ‘net: a guide for repressive regimes* will 2010 bring a wake-up call for cybersecurity?*fbi: 19,000 matches to terrorist screening list in ’09* bank firewalls cracked by cyberhackers*men charged with hijacking dod paychecks* apple loses $21.7m patent suit, appeal in progress*surgery fools japan’s fingerprint checks* radio nodes may succeed rfid tags*verichip’s…