Tag: social network

  • cyber/spacewar: eu, on/off, net censorship & hate speech

    cyber/spacewar: eu, on/off, net censorship & hate speech

    US to radically improve its cybersecurity. yup! you bet! nrc study calls for covert cyberattack against ‘non-state’ enemies from kurt nimmo: The National Research Council is pushing for the offensive use of “cyberattack” against enemies foreign and domestic. “The current policy and legal framework regulating use of cyberattack by the United States is ill-formed, undeveloped,…

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  • cyber/spacewar: social networking & spyware

    cyber/spacewar: social networking & spyware

    pirate bay prosecution could spawn flurry of lawsuitsfrom telegraph: The entertainment industry yesterday hailed the successful prosecution of the four founders of the illegal file-sharing website Pirate Bay, as a major victory in its battle to recoup billions of pounds in lost revenue… Lawyers believe that the sentencing of Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik…

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  • facebook membership may be forever

    from fox news: Once a Facebook member, always a member. The Consumerist blog noticed Sunday that the social-networking giant had quietly made a change to its user Terms of Service (TOS) on Feb. 4. Facebook now declares that it has a perpetual license to use anything you post to your own Facebook page – even…

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  • obamessiah coronation: such a big party for so little change

    obamessiah coronation: such a big party for so little change

    obama’s inauguration financed partially by bailed-out wall st execs from abc: The country is in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, which isn’t stopping rich donors and the government from spending $170 million, or more, on the inauguration of Barack Obama. The actual swearing-in ceremony will cost $1.24 million, according…

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  • syria blocks access to facebook

    from ap: Syrian authorities have blocked Facebook, the popular Internet hangout, over what seems to be fears of Israeli “infiltration” of Syrian social networks on the Net, according to residents and media reports… Lebanon’s daily As-Safir reported that Facebook was blocked on Nov. 18. It said the authorities took the step because Israelis have been…

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