U.S. Financial Regulator Considering Setting Rules for Bitcoin
from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
U.S. Govt. Attack on Megaupload Bears Hallmarks of ?Digital Gitmo?
from TorrentFreak by Robert Amsterdam
Digital Gitmo, by Robert Amsterdam
New Zealand is celebrated worldwide for its human rights. Renowned as being the first country in the world to grant suffrage to women in 1893, the first nation to stand up to the United States and ban nuclear-powered ships from her harbors in 1984, the Kiwis have never backed down from difficult decisions.
Has Big Data Made Anonymity Impossible?
from Mashable! by MIT Technology Review
Anonymous May 7 Target List Includes 12 Large Credit Unions
Credit Union Times
The hacker group OpUSA, which is working with hackers Anonymous to launch distributed denial of service attacks against government and financial institution websites Tuesday, released of list of targeted institutions that includes 12 credit unions.
Top 10 HackerFilled Countries In The World
Siliconindia.com
Redhack, a Turkish Marxist computer hacker group has claimed responsibility for hacking institutions that include the Council of Higher Education, Turkish police forces, the Turkish Army, Türk Telekom, and the National Intelligence Organization.
A guide to staying anonymous online
ITProPortal
Long-time security expert Bruce Schneier isn’t the only pundit to point out that Facebook is not your product; rather, you are Facebook’s product, nicely packaged for sale to its advertisers. The same can be said of any free service online.
Anonymous takes charge, the Web takes down governments
Salon
Today, national security is fragile, with power shifting to technologically equipped terrorist groups, revolutionary movements, criminal enterprises, murky collectives such asAnonymous, and even isolated individuals with an Internet connection.
Experts hope for another failure in next Anonymous attack
Network World
CSO – Anonymous’ failed attack against Israeli websites last month has left security experts cautiously optimistic that the hacktivist group will be unsuccessful in its plans to disrupt U.S. government and banking sites. Anonymous plans to launch
Government-operated spyware on the rise around the world ? report
RT
It first rose to prominence two years ago when documents published on whistleblower websiteWikileaks revealed that the Egyprian security services during the regime of Hosni Mubarak paid over $350,000 to use the software. … The newest detection scan
Worst Possible Cybersecurity Breaches Could Be Far Worse Than You Imagined
from Mashable! by Quartz
Busting World?s Biggest Movie Pirates Made Piracy Worse
from TorrentFreak by Andy
At the turn of the decade, one piracy release group was making its mark on the Internet like no other in recent times. After releasing countless movies and even opening their own BitTorrent tracker, predictably the IMAGiNE group was soon on the radars of Hollywood and U.S. authorities.
Megaupload Launches Frontal Attack on White House Corruption
from TorrentFreak by Ernest
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Kim Dotcom issues a white paper calling on US officials to investigate Megaupload prosecution by DOJ
from The Next Web by Nick Summers
Kickstarting taxation
from open Democracy News Analysis – by Josh Booth
The Starbucks and Googles of this world will always find tax loopholes. We need to link taxation once again to civic virtue and demonstratable social impact. We’ll get them on the spirit of the law, not the letter.
How Google Glass Will Confuse a Generation of Kids
from Mashable! by Lance Ulanoff
After nearly 10 years, Adobe abandons its Creative Suite entirely to focus on Creative Cloud
from The Next Web by Harrison Weber
10 years of Linkedin homepage design boiled down to 11 slides
from The Next Web by Ken Yeung
This is your life, LinkedIn: Ten milestones that have helped shape the company?s 10 year history
from The Next Web by Ken Yeung
LinkedIn is 10 years old today: Here?s the story of how it changed the way we work
from The Next Web by Ken Yeung
Here Is the New Face of TPP and ACTA in the US
from EFF.org Updates by Maira Sutton and Maira Sutton
Today, the White House announced that Michael Froman is the nominee to be the new U.S. Trade Representative. The U.S. Trade Rep is the office in charge of negotiating all trade agreements including theTrans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and the upcoming US-EU trade agreement. This office has therefore been a fundamental player in the game of international copyright policy laundering.
CISPA is not dead! It’s coming back — get ready!
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
Google ‘recognizes’ Palestine
from FP Passport by Elias Groll
First the United Nations, now Google. On Thursday, the Palestine News Network noticed that the Internet giant had changed the tagline for the Palestinian edition of its search engine, Google.ps, from the “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestine.” The decision comes after a November vote by the U.N. General Assembly to recognize Palestine as a non-member state over the objections of Israel and the United States.
Israel isn’t happy about Google’s decision to recognize Palestine
from FP Passport by Elias Groll
EFF to Federal Judge: Don?t Let the DMCA be a Tool for Censorship
from EFF.org Updates by Daniel Nazer and Daniel Nazer
Together with the Digital Media Law Project, we filed an amicus brief today in federal court in Massachusetts. We are urging the court to ensure that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides protection for victims of abusive takedown notices?specifically, that the DMCA requires copyright owners to consider fair use before sending takedowns.
which they believe that political decision-making can be influenced through their own actions and through those of non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The first section examines the respondents? views of
The Ultimate DMCA Guide for Students
one year later . . . TOR is delighted to be 100% DRM-free
from if:book
Julie Crisp writing in the TOR blog
“Protecting our author’s intellectual copyright will always be of a key concern to us and we have very stringent anti-piracy controls in place. But DRM-protected titles are still subject to piracy, and we believe a great majority of readers are just as against piracy as publishers are, understanding that piracy impacts on an author’s ability to earn an income from their creative work. As it is, we’ve seen no discernible increase in piracy on any of our titles, despite them being DRM-free for nearly a year.
Enigma makes it easy for anyone to search, discover and analyze public data from over 100,000 sources
from The Next Web by Nick Summers
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