Former professional journalist turned citizen journalist and professional Web Designer discussing the world of technology, culture and the two converging.
Brandon at GeeksCondition.com has made an important discovery about a flaw in Gmail that can cause you to lose your domains at GoDaddy.com. A must read to learn how to protect yourself and your online identity.
Is it possible for someone to create a malicious filter without having access to your Gmail username and password? No, [...]
The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown “foreign entity,” prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today.
At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology experts detected what they initially thought was a computer virus—a case of “phishing,” a form of hacking often employed [...]
What is ACTA?
In October 2007 the United States, the European Community, Switzerland and Japan simultaneously announced that they would negotiate a new intellectual property enforcement treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Canada have joined the negotiations. Although the [...]
Comcast, one of the country’s largest Internet providers, said this week that it would place limits on customers’ broadband usage.
Beginning Oct. 1, Comcast will put a 250 gigabyte-a-month cap on residential users. The limit will not affect most users, at least not in the short-term, but is certain to create tension as some technologies gain [...]
<From Larry Magid’s post on Yahoo Kids Blog>
You probably know about social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook and blogging services like Blogger.com and WordPress but have you heard of microblogging?
Services like Twitter and Plurk let people post very short messages (140 characters or less) to their friends and acquaintances. Founded in 2006, Twitter [...]
Buckling under the weight of the Internet radio royalty hike that SoundExchange pushed through last July, Pandora may pull its own plug soon. Despite being one of the most popular Internet radio services, the company still isn’t making money, and its founder, Tim Westergren, says it can’t last beyond its first payment of the higher [...]
The Pirate Bay wants to encrypt the Internet protect privacy on the Internet. This is an interesting concept. A little ambitious maybe, but maybe it’ll happen.
With governments all over cracking down on illegal copyright infringement it’s obvious why the developers at one the the Internet’s biggest torrent sites want to do this. But despite the [...]
May 7th, 2008
Gag Order Lifted on Internet Archive, Allowing Founder to Speak Out for First Time
San Francisco - The FBI has withdrawn an unconstitutional national security letter (NSL) issued to the Internet Archive after a legal challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). As the result of a [...]
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 8, 2008; D01
The FBI has withdrawn a secret administrative order seeking the name, address and online activity of a patron of the Internet Archive after the San Francisco-based digital library filed suit to block the action.
It is one of only three known instances in which the FBI has [...]
Tough action is required by US regulators to protect the principles that have made the net so successful, a leading digital rights lawyer has said
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