INTERNET 2 - The Imminent Privatization of the World Wide Web / Censorship

[H0llyw00d]

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[Femacamper]

Figure this one out.

MD2: 0b919a3596143ed0b72b401df9957128
MD4: 3cdf364294e28a56ce5a2a665332ce3e
MD5: b4e5e4e2a207f4d590a459b9ae63975f
CRC 8, ccitt, 16, 32 :

CRYPT (form: $ MD5? $ SALT $ CRYPT):
$1$yMEABfFD$J5pGOogZuOToIQivfDZSI0
      (form: SALT[2] CRYPT[11]):
psVx1UvO5CoU.

SHA1: f470e2de239bdafd7449e0e85dbfe2355a0f0acc
RIPEMD-160:
  9ea3003b0f6480f6600eef87bc285278683d6466

I'll give e-kudos to the first one who can decrypt it.

[Femacamper]

Maybe that one's too hard; I'll give you a hint:

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[Brocke]

Pakistani court orders ban on Google, Yahoo, Hotmail
June 23, 2010 16:42 IST

A Pakistani court has reportedly ordered a ban on nine leading websites, including Google, Yahoo and Hotmail, for allegedly posting blasphemous material.

Media reports said the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore [ Images ] high court on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to immediately block nine websites -- including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Bing and Amazon -- for publishing and promoting sacrilegious and blasphemous material.

Justice Mazher Iqbal Sidhu issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a man named Muhammad Sidiq who claimed these websites were publishing sacrilegious material.

The judge also ordered the PTA chairman to appear in court on June 28 with relevant material.

Sidiq, in his petition, sought a ban on the websites for publishing blasphemous materials and twisting facts about the Quran.

Aslam Dhakkar, head of a local bar association, was quoted as saying that the court had given a historic decision.

He said the legal fraternity in Bahawalpur will observe a strike on Wednesday to protest the publication of blasphemous material by the websites.

However, officials of the PTA told PTI that they had received no instructions to block the websites.

They said they had only seen media reports about the court's order.

Wahaj-us-Siraj, a spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan, said his organisation had not received any directions from the PTA to block websites.

Pakistani authorities had blocked popular social networking website Facebook in May over a competition on blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.

The access to the website was later restored on the orders of the court.

http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/jun/23/pak-court-orders-ban-on-google-yahoo-hotmail.htm

[Brocke]

"Who cares", you might say...well what's next...

.pol for political sites?
.nws for news & journalistic sites?
.env for environmental sites?
.sci for scientific sites?
.clm for climate related sites?

...and once you are "required" to adopt the new domain you will be forced to comply with a set of "polocies" that govern that domain.

you see where this is going?




Porn sites move closer to .XXX web addresses

    * From: NewsCore
    * June 26, 2010 3:45AM

THE porn industry has moved closer to getting .XXX web addresses, after the international regulatory body endorsed the domain name.

"The green light has been given for the application to move forward," said a spokesman for the the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as its board met in Brussels.

"The domain name has not yet been approved, but it moves forward under a fast-track process," Martijn Pakker said. "We now go on to developing the .XXX domain name."

ICM Registry, a company which registers domain names, applied for the .XXX domain in 2004 as a home for the adult entertainment industry, but saw its application rejected by ICANN in 2007.

That decision was overturned in February by an independent review panel, meaning an estimated 100,000-plus companies that have pre-reserved website names can begin planning for a new future online.

Supporters of the .XXX domain name say that grouping the adult entertainment industry under a single banner will make it easier to police and market porn sites that conform to legal standards across different regulatory regimes.

Those who have opposed the move, including ICANN members who expressed discomfort in the past amid lobbying from conservative groups and church organisations, fear it will accelerate a rush to normalise porn usage.

A host of other new domain names, such as .scot for websites in Scotland, currently restricted to the .co.uk domain name for Britain, were also being debated by ICANN board members.

A California-based non-profit corporation, ICANN manages the Domain Name System and Internet Protocol addresses that form the technical backbone of the web.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/porn-sites-move-closer-to-xxx-web-addresses/story-e6frfro0-1225884530038

[H0llyw00d]

gonna suck when ya eventually see this one.,....

www.Amerika.nwo

[Kilika]

It actually makes sense technologically. Think about it like this; if all porn sites were a set extension, then it can be easily blocked. Just select the desired extension you want to block and it's done. Much easier to block a whole series of addresses than go by words in a site.

I've thought for a long time that there should be more topic-specific extensions. It would make things alot easier all the way around.

...and once you are "required" to adopt the new domain you will be forced to comply with a set of "polocies" that govern that domain.

you see where this is going?

It's already there! Sites already have to comply with all kinds of regulations and policies. That statement is born out of sensationalism. 

[Lucian Solaris]

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[Brocke]

Witness the Freest Economy: The Internet | by Dan O'Connor

Full Audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdA1SOKQCPE

One of the few places in the world not yet plagued by government intervention is the internet. Although some governments in certain parts of the world have infiltrated the activities of the internet to varying degrees, it remains the closest thing to a purely free economy that we can identify in the modern world.

On the internet, the beautiful aspects of human nature manifest themselves, and we see individuals and companies maximizing their talents and resources for reasons of profit, pleasure, altruism, and mere progress in itself. Given that the government neither inhibits the activities of the internet nor props up or favors any particular actors or individuals, perhaps we are witnessing the closest thing to a free market that man has ever witnessed...


The text here and mp3 download
http://mises.org/daily/3766

[Brocke]

Hackers dupe world's biggest companies

    * Glenn Chapman
    * From: AAP
    * July 31, 2010 7:15PM

HACKERS at an infamous DefCon gathering are proving that old-fashioned smooth talk rivals slick software skills when it comes to pulling off attacks on computer networks.

A first-ever "social engineering'' contest challenges hackers to call workers at 10 companies including technology titans Google, Apple, Cisco, and Microsoft and get them to reveal too much information to strangers.

"Out of all the companies called, not one company shut us down,'' said Offensive Security operations manager Christopher Hadnagy, part of the social-engineer.org team behind the competition.

The team kept hackers within the boundaries of the law, but had them coax out enough information to show that workers would have unintentionally made it easier to attack networks.

Workers that unknowingly ended up on calls with hackers ranged from a chief technical officer to IT support personnel and sales people.

One employee was conned into opening programs on a company computer to read off specifications regarding types of software being used, details that would let a hacker tailor viruses to launch at the system.

"You often have to crack through firewalls and burn the perimeter in order to get into the internal organisation,'' Mati Aharoni of Offensive Security, a company that tests company computer defences, said.

"It is much easier to use social engineering techniques to get to the same place.''

Other companies targeted were Pepsi, Coca Cola, Shell, BP, Ford, and Proctor & Gamble.

The contest, still taking place at DefCon and promises the winner an Apple iPad tablet computer, is intended to show that hardened computer networks remain vulnerable if people using them are soft touches.

"We didn't want anyone fired or feeling bad at the end of the day,'' Aharoni said.

"We wanted to show that social engineering is a legitimate attack vector.''

A saying that long ago made it onto T-shirts at the annual DefCon event is ``There is no patch for human stupidity.''

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/hackers-dupe-worlds-biggest-companies/story-e6frfrnr-1225899446290#ixzz0vJCjTj8F

[Brocke]

Porn broadcast inside Indonesian parliament

An investigation is under way in Indonesia after pornographic images were broadcast on an internal TV channel in the country's parliament.

The X-rated footage was visible to staff and journalists for 15 minutes before security staff were able to turn off the stream, local media report.

The TVs are used to provide information on the day's political schedule.

It comes ahead of an 11 August deadline for local internet service providers to start blocking online pornography.

It is unclear if the incident at the House of Representatives is in any way connected.

Local media reports that the pornographic images were taken from an adult website that is banned in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia.

The deputy speaker of the House apologised for the incident.

Correspondents say the move to block online porn, which was ordered by Indonesia's Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring last month, has been generally welcomed in the Muslim-majority democracy of 240 million people.

More here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10839133

[Brocke]

You're coming to the party a bit late Sen. Franken!


Senator Al Franken: Net neutrality is the first amendment issue of our time
http://www.wimp.com/firstamendment/

[Brocke]

You are NOT either a Pirate or a Good Citizen - Stephen Fry on copyrights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g057Dy1WFnI

You are NOT either a Pirate or a Good Citizen - Stephen Fry on copyrights, just the best bits.

Stephen Fry is currently (August 2009) not formally associated with the PPUK, However, he does manage to eloquently express views that are perfectly aligned with those of the Pirate Party UK.

Code:

http://www.pirateparty.org.uk

Stephen Fry again! Against the aggresive strategies of the copyright industries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCk9Cheiqqg

Stephen Fry denounces the overly aggressive strategies of the copyright industries as stupid in his speech at the London iTunes festival Summer 2009.

[amazon]

BUMP

[Brocke]

Pentagon may apply preemptive warfare policy to the Internet

By Stephen C. Webster
Sunday, August 29th, 2010 -- 11:39 pm

pentagon2 Pentagon may apply preemptive warfare policy to the InternetGrappling with matters of law and policy governing the United States military's cyber-warfare capabilities, Pentagon planners are eying ways of making preemptive strikes across the Internet part of America's toolbox.

In a piece for Foreign Affairs, the publication of globalist policy group The Council on Foreign Relations, Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III paints a picture of dire threat to American infrastructure, disclosing for the first time details of a devastating cyber-attack on U.S. infrastructure...

That line of thinking has led Pentagon planners to weigh weather or not the United States can legally reach across the Internet to attack "adversary information systems," according to Defense Dept. documents examined by the Post. The capabilities being sought would allow U.S. cyber-warriors to "deceive, deny, disrupt, degrade and destroy" information and computers around the globe.

While it is legal for the Pentagon to block malicious software on the edges of its networks, preemptive strikes on systems thought to be in the employ of those who would harm America or its interests are still a gray area and could be subject to international escalation, should the U.S. take an overtly offensive stance.

"We are having a big debate about what constitutes the use of force or an armed attack in cyberspace," said Herbert S. Lin, a cyber expert who spoke to the Post. "We need to know where those lines are so that we don't cross them ourselves when we conduct offensive actions in cyberspace against other nations."

The U.S. Cyber Command, comprised of 1,000 hackers and spies, will assume command on Oct. 1, led by NSA director General Keith Alexander. The group's creation was announced in 2009, with the full support of President Obama.



http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0829/pentagon-weighs-applying-preemptive-warfare-tactics-internet/

[Brocke]

"Don't Be Evil?" Times Square15 Second Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aoGKAkM0oM

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Responds to Consumer Watchdog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKybBlEjSyk


Video lambasts Google on privacy

    * From correspondents in San Francisco
    * From: AFP
    * September 03, 2010 11:49AM

A VIDEO cartoon featuring Google's chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square today as a privacy group continued to hound the internet giant.

Consumer Watchdog took its gripes with Google to the centre of Manhattan, where it paid to have a Don't be evil? animated clip shown on a "Jumbotron" screen above the masses coursing through Times Square.

A cartoon version of Google chief executive Eric Schmidt was shown cruising a residential neighbourhood in an ice cream truck, spying on children and disclosing their parents' internet browsing habits.

"We're satirising Schmidt in the most highly-trafficked public square in the nation to make the public aware of how out of touch Schmidt and Google are when it comes to our privacy rights," said Watchdog president Jamie Court.

The snippet displayed as an advertisement in Times Square was from a video clip posted online at insidegoogle.com, a website run by Watchdog.

"We like ice cream as much as anyone, but we like privacy even more," Google said in response to an AFP inquiry regarding the video.

"That's why we provide tools for users to control their privacy online, like Google Dashboard, Ads Preference Manager, Chrome incognito mode and 'off the record' Gmail chat."

The California-based internet titan said that information about its privacy tools can be found online at google.com/privacy.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/video-lambasts-google-on-privacy/story-e6frfku0-1225913736836#ixzz0yQhfe3I2

[Femacamper]

Consumer Watchdog: (in referring to Google turning off privacy) "But it also advantages your marketing efforts."

Google: "I can assure to you, as a matter of fact, that that's not something we think about."

ROFL!

[Brocke]

Malaysia to monitor for 'harmful' blogs

    * From: AFP
    * September 03, 2010 6:48PM

MALAYSIA has formed a task force to scour the internet for blog postings deemed harmful to national unity.

Home ministry deputy secretary general for security Abdul Rahim Mohamad Radzi said the unit would involve the police, internet regulators, the information ministry and the attorney general's chambers.

"It is a mechanism that will coordinate these various agencies to help monitor what is being said in cyberspace and to take action against those that are trying to stoke racial tensions and disunity," he said.

Abdul Rahim said the group would also monitor alternative and mainstream media for similar content.

"There is a disturbing trend now appearing on the internet where some people are inciting racial unrest and causing confusion and this will damage the peace we have in the country," he said.

Abdul Rahim cited the recent case of a Facebook page that insulted Muslim Malays.

They make up the majority of Malaysia's multicultural population, alongside large ethnic Chinese and Indian communities.

Police are also investigating ethnic Chinese rapper Wee Meng Chee for sedition, after he posted a three-minute rap on YouTube criticising a Malay headmistress accused of making racial slurs against minority students.

The government has ordered a probe into the case which caused anger among Malaysia's minorities, who complain their rights are being eroded as the country becomes increasingly "Islamised"...


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/malaysia-to-monitor-for-harmful-blogs/story-e6frfku0-1225913972837#ixzz0yTRUwLH3

[Brocke]

UN warns that a cyberwar would be catastrophic

By Kevin Hall
12:19PM on Sep 3, 2010

Hamadoun Touré, the Secretary General of the UN's International Telecommunications Union since 1999, says that it's crucial that we start thinking in new terms about cyberspace. If not, he warns, we could face a destructive potential "worse than a tsunami."

While it may sound hyperbolic, it's really not. A large part of our own infrastructure is tied to the Internet, including banking, utilities and energy, and even governmental functions. Y'know, there's also all that rapid communication we perform en masse, too.

In the interest of protecting that, Touré is calling for a cyberspace treaty, or a common code against cyberwar: "My dream… is that I would like to have a cyber peace treaty," Touré said. "Some people think it's a sin. People who think they are secure don't want anyone else to talk about it. I say there is no [online] superpower."

"We need to avoid a cyberwar starting," he added. "After the cases of Estonia and Georgia, you need to realise how fragile the world is becoming. A cyberwar will be worse than a tsunami — we have to avoid it."

Read more
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/09/un-security-gen.php

[Femacamper]

UN warns that a cyberwar would be catastrophic

By Kevin Hall
12:19PM on Sep 3, 2010

Hamadoun Touré, the Secretary General of the UN's International Telecommunications Union since 1999, says that it's crucial that we start thinking in new terms about cyberspace. If not, he warns, we could face a destructive potential "worse than a tsunami."

While it may sound hyperbolic, it's really not. A large part of our own infrastructure is tied to the Internet, including banking, utilities and energy, and even governmental functions. Y'know, there's also all that rapid communication we perform en masse, too.

In the interest of protecting that, Touré is calling for a cyberspace treaty, or a common code against cyberwar: "My dream… is that I would like to have a cyber peace treaty," Touré said. "Some people think it's a sin. People who think they are secure don't want anyone else to talk about it. I say there is no [online] superpower."

"We need to avoid a cyberwar starting," he added. "After the cases of Estonia and Georgia, you need to realise how fragile the world is becoming. A cyberwar will be worse than a tsunami — we have to avoid it."

Read more
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/09/un-security-gen.php

Globalist game plan:

1. Shut down the Internet.
2. Fire sale.

That is all.

[Brocke]

Single mum ordered to pay $1.5m for illegally downloading 24 songs

    * From correspondents in Washington
    * From: AFP
    * November 05, 2010 1:29PM

The landmark piracy case could decide if ISPs have to police illegal downloads. Picture: File. Source: news.com.au

    * Woman to pay $1.5m for digital piracy
    * Third verdict in a long-running case
    * Most cases settle for $3000 - $5000

A US jury has ordered a Minnesota woman to pay $1.5 million for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case.

Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four, was found liable by a jury today of copyright infringement for using KaZaA peer-to-peer file-sharing network to download the songs over the internet.

She was ordered to pay $62,500 for each of the 24 songs, a total of $1.5 million.

The verdict was the third in the long-running case and was welcomed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

"We are again thankful to the jury for its service in this matter and that they recognized the severity of the defendant's misconduct," the RIAA said.

"Now with three jury decisions behind us along with a clear affirmation of Ms Thomas-Rasset's willful liability, it is our hope that she finally accepts responsibility for her actions," it said.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/single-mum-ordered-to-pay-15m-for-illegally-downloading-24-songs/story-e6frfrnr-1225948322250#ixzz14NV9krzG

[Brocke]

Thailand’s IT Minister Admits Blacklist Filters Don’t Work

By Nick Broughall on November 18, 2010 at 10:00 AM

Although the government’s proposed internet filter has effectively been delayed until 2013 at the earliest, it still hasn’t been scrapped completely. Adding fuel to the fire that would burn the policy to ash is the revelation that Thailand’s IT minister has recently admitted to ZDNet that blacklist filtering doesn’t work, and that he believes Thailand should scrap their own internet filter.

Darren Pauli at ZDNet spoke with Thongchai Sangsiri, director of computer forensics within Thailand’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, who claimed that maintaining a blacklist was more trouble than it’s worth.

Let’s hope that Senator Conroy and the Labor government were listening…

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/11/thailands-it-minister-admits-blacklists-dont-work/

[Brocke]

Senator Threatens to Block Online Copyright Bill

By Grant Gross, IDG News

A U.S. senator has vowed to fight attempts to pass a controversial copyright protection bill that would allow the U.S. government to shut down websites suspected of hosting infringing materials.

Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said late Thursday that he would seek to block the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or COICA, from passing through the full Senate, unless the legislation is changed. Earlier Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 19-0 to approve the bill and send it to the full Senate.

Wyden called the bill the "wrong medicine" for dealing with online copyright infringement. The bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice to seek expedited court orders requiring U.S. domain-name registrars to shut down domestic websites suspected of hosting infringing materials. The bill would also allow the DOJ, through court orders, to order U.S. ISPs to redirect customer traffic away from infringing foreign websites.

"Deploying this statute to combat online copyright infringement seems almost like using a bunker-busting cluster bomb, when what you need is a precision-guided missile," Wyden said during a hearing on digital trade issues. "If you don't think this thing through carefully, the collateral damage would be American innovation, American jobs, and a secure Internet."

Wyden's opposition means the bill is likely dead this year. Individual senators can place holds on legislation, and there are only a few working days left in the congressional session this year. Sponsors of the legislation, including fellow Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, would have to reintroduce the bill if it doesn't pass this year.

Read more: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/211162/senator_threatens_to_block_online_copyright_bill.html

[Rebelitarian]

gonna suck when ya eventually see this one.,....

www.Amerika.nwo

Yeah and you'll probably need certain License numbers to access certain sites too.

[Rebelitarian]

"Who cares", you might say...well what's next...

.pol for political sites?
.nws for news & journalistic sites?
.env for environmental sites?
.sci for scientific sites?
.clm for climate related sites?

...and once you are "required" to adopt the new domain you will be forced to comply with a set of "polocies" that govern that domain.

you see where this is going?




Porn sites move closer to .XXX web addresses

    * From: NewsCore
    * June 26, 2010 3:45AM

THE porn industry has moved closer to getting .XXX web addresses, after the international regulatory body endorsed the domain name.

"The green light has been given for the application to move forward," said a spokesman for the the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as its board met in Brussels.

"The domain name has not yet been approved, but it moves forward under a fast-track process," Martijn Pakker said. "We now go on to developing the .XXX domain name."

ICM Registry, a company which registers domain names, applied for the .XXX domain in 2004 as a home for the adult entertainment industry, but saw its application rejected by ICANN in 2007.

That decision was overturned in February by an independent review panel, meaning an estimated 100,000-plus companies that have pre-reserved website names can begin planning for a new future online.

Supporters of the .XXX domain name say that grouping the adult entertainment industry under a single banner will make it easier to police and market porn sites that conform to legal standards across different regulatory regimes.

Those who have opposed the move, including ICANN members who expressed discomfort in the past amid lobbying from conservative groups and church organisations, fear it will accelerate a rush to normalise porn usage.

A host of other new domain names, such as .scot for websites in Scotland, currently restricted to the .co.uk domain name for Britain, were also being debated by ICANN board members.

A California-based non-profit corporation, ICANN manages the Domain Name System and Internet Protocol addresses that form the technical backbone of the web.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/porn-sites-move-closer-to-xxx-web-addresses/story-e6frfro0-1225884530038

...and no doubt you'll be subject to different tax rates depending on which site you use.

[AnarchyOK]

that poor woman who had to pay 1.5million, is that for reals ?!?!?! god damn....

[Brocke]

FCC Net Neutrality Vote Set For Dec. 21

Battle lines are drawn as Republicans react to FCC chairman Genachowski's proposal for regulating broadband Internet providers, but stops short of reclassifying broadband as a telecom service.

By W. David Gardner ,  InformationWeek
December 1, 2010 03:48 PM

No more Mr. Nice Guy: FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, a Democrat, today outlined his plans for regulating broadband Internet providers and drew the immediate wrath of the two Republican commissioners, indicating that the quest to find a way to deal with the exploding Internet -- particularly its wireless part -- will be a long and tortuous struggle.

The framework outlined by Genachowski will be voted on at the FCC's Dec. 21 meeting.

"This framework, if adopted later this month, would advance a set of core goals: It would ensure that the Internet remains a powerful platform for innovation and job creation; it would empower consumers and entrepreneurs; it would protect free expression; it would increase certainty in the marketplace, and spur investment both at the edge and in the core of our broadband networks," said Genachowski.

Genachowski's proposal avoided a call to regulate Internet access as a Title II telecommunications service, as telecommunications services have been regulated in the past. A move to Title II was looked upon as Draconian by Republican members of the FCC and Congress.

Genachowski said Internet access and traffic issues can be dealt with under existing Title I provisions.

Read more: http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/policy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228500086&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

[Freeski]

My view is that the government has no moral mandate, business or authority whatsoever when it comes to the free exchange of goods and services among people, and yes, that of course includes the Internet. We can self-regulate, thank you. But why do we let the government structure our lives?

[Damascus]

Here, Here, my good man that's a jolly good idea! Why don't we let google and comcast decide what the free market should be? This would be way better then the corrupt evil government that points guns at you. You always know that they will have the best interests at heart because they(monopolies) have a moral mandate.  

P.S. and if we don't like it we can just stop using their internet.

[Freeski]

Here, Here, my good man that's a jolly good idea! Why don't we let google and comcast decide what the free market should be? This would be way better then the corrupt evil government that points guns at you. You always know that they will have the best interests at heart because they have a moral mandate.  

So what, you don't believe that people can/would self-regulate themselves?

[Damascus]

That is why the government needs to be accountable to the people! Are you saying that monopolies are? Monopoly of power on any side inherently has no morals!

[Kilika]

The framework outlined by Genachowski will be voted on at the FCC's Dec. 21 meeting.

Ring a bell anyone?

[Brocke]

Supercomputer hunts child abusers

    * 12:48 03 December 2010 by Frank Swain

With the help of their 1.8 petaflop supercomputer, Jaguar, researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee are sifting through internet traffic in search of suspicions patterns that will lead police to the perpetrators of child pornography.

In standard police work, checking a suspect's hard drive will show whether they have been downloading illegal content such as child pornography. But catching the criminals that produce such material in the first place is even more important, because they can often lead police to the children who are being abused. It is far from easy, since you can't necessarily tell who took the illicit images stored on a hard drive.

The problem with policing child pornography online is that there is simply too much of it, says Grier Weeks, executive director of the National Association to Protect Children. "We could quadruple our law enforcement dedicated to this problem overnight, and they'd still be overwhelmed," he says.

He approached the computer scientists at Oak Ridge in search of a solution, "They were genuinely stunned and moved by what they'd heard," he told New Scientist. "And within a week they were making a visit to the Knoxville Internet Crimes Against Children task force".

read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19807-supercomputer-hunts-child-abusers.html

[Brocke]

DNS Explained [VIDEO]
http://www.dump.com/2010/12/04/dns-explained-video/

[Brocke]

Securing America Against the Threat of Cyber Attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHE_LEuVNA

Secretary Napolitano addressed a live web audience to talk about our nation's shared responsibility for our cybersecurity. She also answered a few questions from viewers.

[Brocke]

McDonald's says customer database hacked
Associated Press, 12.13.10, 03:39 PM EST

PORTLAND, Ore. -- McDonald's Corp. says some of its customers' private information was exposed during a data breach.

The company said Monday that a third party was able to get past security measures and see into a database of its customer information that included e-mail, phone numbers, addresses, birthdates and other specifics that they provided when signing up for online promotions or other subscriptions to its websites.

read more: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/12/13/business-specialized-consumer-services-us-mcdonald-apos-s-data-breach_8200559.html?boxes=Homepagetopnews

[Damascus]

Securing America Against the Threat of Cyber Attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHE_LEuVNA

Secretary Napolitano addressed a live web audience to talk about our nation's shared responsibility for our cybersecurity. She also answered a few questions from viewers.

Thanks you made me loose my appetite during dinner. There should be a warning on her face: danger looking at this face may induce uncontrolled vomiting.

[Brocke]

Thanks you made me loose my appetite during dinner. There should be a warning on her face: danger looking at this face may induce uncontrolled vomiting.

One day everyone in the government will look like that. 

[Brocke]

Gawker Media boss to meet with FBI after hackers stole readers' email addresses and passwords

    * By Keith J. Kelly
    * From: NewsCore
    * December 14, 2010 4:30PM

FBI investigators are expected to meet with Gawker Media boss Nick Denton today after the popular media publisher's computers were hacked.

A group called Gnosis this week hacked into Gawker and stole the passwords and email addresses of more than 100,000 of its 1.3 million registered users.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/gawker-media-boss-to-meet-with-fbi-after-hackers-stole-readers-passwords/story-e6frfro0-1225971023594#ixzz187T1KZar

[Brocke]

FCC to vote Tuesday on 'net neutrality' rules

By Doug Gross, CNN
December 21, 2010 -- Updated 0007 GMT


STORY HIGHLIGHTS

    * FCC to vote Tuesday on open-internet "neutrality" plan
    * Plan is designed to keep people who pay from getting better web service than others
    * If approved, plan would go to Congress for final approval


(CNN) -- The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Tuesday on a set of regulations designed to ensure that internet providers grant everyone equal access to the Web.

The "net neutrality" rules, proposed by the Obama administration, would be the government's biggest foray yet into one of the Web's fiercest debates.

In announcing the proposed rules earlier this month, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said they would require high-speed internet providers to treat all types of Web content equally.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/12/20/fcc.net.neutrality/index.html