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March 07 2012
Mr Senator as a geek
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March 03 2012
February 22 2012
February 21 2012
“— Secret Service Seizes JotForm.com, Nuking Millions of Online Forms (Updated) | Threat Level | Wired.comJotform.com, the domain name of a business providing hosting for online forms, has been seized by the Secret Service, essentially gutting the company’s business.
The Wednesday seizure of JotForm.com, with the assistance of the domain name’s registrar, GoDaddy, disabled about 2 million JotForm.com forms, said Aytekin Tank, the site’s founder. The embeddable forms are hosted by the company and let sites quickly put up contact and sign-up forms online.
GoDaddy told Wired it took the site down at the request of law enforcement.
Tank has informed its “hundreds of thousands of users” in a blog post to alter their form URLs to jotform.net, which should revive a customer’s hosted forms.
“They have disabled the DNS without any prior notice or request,” Tank said of GoDaddy. “They have told us the domain name was suspended as part of an ongoing law enforcement investigation.”
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The agency did not immediately respond to Wired’s request for comment. ”
February 18 2012
“— Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings - WSJ.comGoogle Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.'s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.
The companies used special computer code that tricks Apple's Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users. Safari, the most widely used browser on mobile devices, is designed to block such tracking by default.
Google disabled its code after being contacted by The Wall Street Journal.
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February 16 2012
“— Facebook Launches Verified Accounts and Pseudonyms | TechCrunchTomorrow, some users with many subscribers will be notified through their profile of the option to verify their identity, Facebook confirmed with me. There’s no way to volunteer to be verified, you have to be chosen. These users will be prompted to submit an image of a government-issued photo ID, which is deleted after verification. They’ll also be given the option to enter an “alternate name” that can be used to find them through search and that can be displayed next to their real name in parentheses or as a replacement.
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February 15 2012
“— UK Now Seizing Music Blogs (With American Domains) Over Copyright Claims | TechdirtDajaz1 -- who, of course, had its own issues with bogus domain seizures -- has a story up about how the site rnbxclusive.com appears to have been seized via UK law enforcement, who put up a splash page even more ridiculous (though with fewer eagles) than the ICE splash page:
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“ Además de presentar en el festival la primera iniciativa local de crowdfunding, para Bernardez parte del plato fuerte está en las mesas relacionadas con transgénicos, semillas, nuevas energías y patentes medicinales: “Es grave –afirma–. Es el mismo problema que sufrimos con las empresas discográficas. Te vas a dar cuenta realmente cuál es el problema de que tengan los derechos ellos cuando se trata de salud”. Dentro de esa tónica, Cartoy Díaz presentará un corto inédito que expone lo que está ocurriendo en el Amazonas respecto del patentamiento de plantas medicinales en forma de medicamentos. ”— “Es mentira que Internet mata al cine”_Página/12 ::
February 13 2012
“— Canadian Govt To Introduce Massive Internet Surveillance Law - SlashdotCan we start a petition to evict Canada from North America? They're giving us a bad name. Mexico is welcome to stay.
So you have no problem with that form the DHS now requires all US citizens to fill out when they "leave" the US for any reason be it business trip or vacation? I don't know of any other country in North America that requires its citizens to report to the government when the "leave".
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February 11 2012
“ Yet Facebook’s inventory of data and its revenue from advertising are small potatoes compared to some others. Google took in more than 10 times as much, with an estimated $36.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2011, by analyzing what people sent over Gmail and what they searched on the Web, and then using that data to sell ads. Hundreds of other companies have also staked claims on people’s online data by depositing software called cookies or other tracking mechanisms on people’s computers and in their browsers. ”— Op-Ed at New York Times: Facebook Is Using You
“ (...) an essay by Dave Winer, which builds on one yesterday by John Battelle, which itself was a response to one the previous day by Keith Woolcock. All are worth reading, and all concern the way Facebook's rise is changing -- and distorting -- the overall shape of the internet.— Facebook, Google, and the Future of the Online 'Commons' - The Atlantic
In brief they argue:
- Google's business success depended on a worldwide internet structure as open, untrammeled, and transparent as possible. Therefore most of what Google did for its own corporate interest also advanced those aims -- or at least did not impede them.
- Facebook's business success depends on an internet structure that is increasingly "gated" and segregated into proprietary realms. Therefore most of what Facebook has done is to induce maximum sharing of personal information within its propriety sphere, while erecting barriers to the flow of information from one realm to another.
- The shift of business advantage from the "public" to the "private" model means more than a different subset of people becoming zillionaires. ”
February 03 2012
“ Most of the blogosphere’s attention has been focused on Twitter’s new censorship policies released last week, but Google has quietly unveiled its new policies for its blogging interface, Blogger. The changes reflect a compromise similar to Twitter's, allowing them to target their response to content removal requests by certain states. Over the coming weeks, Google will redirect users to a country-code top-level domain, or “ccTLD”, which corresponds to the user’s current location based upon their IP address. Google also provides users a way to get around these blocks by entering a formatted No Country Redirect or “NCR” URL. ”— This Week in Censorship: Electronic Frontier Foundation
“ Federal authorities are taking .com, .org. and .net domains under the same civil-seizure law the government invokes to seize brick-and-mortar drug houses, bank accounts and other property tied to alleged illegal activity. The feds are able to seize the domains because Verisign, which controls the .net and .com names, and the Public Interest Registry, which runs .org, are U.S.-based organizations. Under civil forfeiture laws, the person losing the property has to prove that the items were not used to commit crimes. ”— Feds Seize 307 Sports-Related Domains Ahead of Super Sunday | Threat Level | Wired.com
February 01 2012
“ But what enrages us to our inner core is that the system, the empire, the governments, are still allowed to try to boss you and us around with one law crazier than the other. Do you think they will stop with SOPA/ACTA/PIPA? They will not. Because you won't stop sharing those files. Because we will not stay down. Because no one can turn back time. Together, we are the iron that hardens with each strike. ”— The Pirate Bay - Year of the storm
January 31 2012
“— British tourists arrested in America on terror charges over Twitter jokes | Mail OnlineTwo British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'.
Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers for 12 hours after landing in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting.
The Department of Homeland Security flagged him as a potential threat when he posted an excited tweet to his pals about his forthcoming trip to Hollywood which read: 'Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America?'
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“— 2011: November - February Political Notes - Richard StallmanI think the controversy about privacy policies of Facebook and Google is a distraction. No privacy policies could stop the FBI from collecting whatever data the company has about you, without serving a court order on the company, let alone on you. Thus, I think the crucial issue is to reduce what information these companies get about us.
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January 30 2012
“— Lauren Weinstein's Blog: Twitter's Censorship MuddleUnfortunately, there is virtually no evidence to contradict, and vast evidence to support, the notion that the more "localized" and "frictionless" a censorship system, the more governments will expand their use of such systems over time.
In the Internet context, the problems triggered by providing localized censorship capabilities are easily visible on both sides of the fence.
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January 29 2012
“ There is a world of difference between a democracy banning speech on “security” grounds when the citizens know what the decision is, who made it, and how to change it, and a dictatorship banning its own “security”-infringing speech by autocratic fiat. ”— Twitter, Democracy, and Internet Freedom | TechCrunch
January 27 2012
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