Data Privacy Day Doodles
Yesterday (or still today in certain time zones) was Data Privacy Day.. I was made aware of this by a doodle on DuckDuckGo.
Of course I opened a new tab and r...
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Twitter to Censor Tweets per Country
Demand Progress has started an open letter to twitter and asked its subscriber's to sign it, the letter is short and as follows:
Twitter's importance as an open platform has been demonstrated time and again this year. We need you to keep figh... Read more.. . ..PcAnywhere Becomes PcAnonymous
Source code for Symantec's pcAnywhere has been borrowed.. . back in 2006, but they have finally had time to get around to that and now are advising their clients to disable the software.
Why ? What is the sec...
Read more.. . ..02 Gives Mobile Phone Numbers to Websites
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O2, a UK phone operator, seems to be sending along in the HTTP headers of their clients http requests the user's mobile phone number! Lewis Peckover has discovered this and set up a test page for people to see ...
Read more.. . ..No Safe Harbor
A new book to be released in a few hours (I think this is on USA time): No Safe Harbor. This book is released by the United States Pirate Party, it features many interesting people and ideas.... .. and ye...
Read more.. . ..Global Censorship Checkpoints
I just heard about Global Censorship Checkpoints, it's aim is to document various projects around the world that want to police the Internet. On this site you can see, which polices are implemented or under study in each country, there are also links t...
Read more.. . ..Megaupload Takedown Inspires Self Censorship
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How can the USA authorities take down a Hong-Kong based company and arrest people in New-Zealand ? Ars Technica explains, it turns out that the...
Read more.. . ..Megaupload Down - MPAA and RIAA Down as well
MegaUpload.com was just shut down and executives arrested, data centres violated, etc etc. The FBI it seems has the right to arrest people all over the world (New Zealand, Germany, Canada, etc etc).
At the same time the MPAA, RIAA and Department Of "Justice" websites are al...
Read more.. . ..The Geniuses at Fox News "Circumvent" Wikipedia Blackout
It's no news that Fox News is mostly made up of real geniuses who always deliver properly researched, reliable and fair information. Today they published an article on how"...
Read more.. . ..MPAA Thinks Blackout is Abuse of Power !
Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) speaks about the anti SOPA/PIPA blackout, noticeably about Wikipedia.
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Internet Strike
Parts of the Internet will be on strike tomorrow as you may have noticed on this site. Join us while it is still legal.
A few good links:
Read more.. . ..Google Does Evil
The short version is: "Take the time to read the blog post from Mocality about how Google does evil.
In even shorter, a company based in Kenya called Mo...
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