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« Previous EntriesConfirmed: Ability to spy on remote calls with VoIP
Monday, December 3rd, 2007In October, two security experts at hacker conference ToorCon9 in San Diego hacked into their hotel's corporate network using a Cisco VoIP phone By Linda Leung Framingham Cisco confirmed it is possible to eavesdrop on remote conversations using Cisco VoIP phones. In its security response, Cisco says: "an attacker with valid Extension Mobility authentication credentials could cause a ...
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Protests force Facebook to change
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Many users resented Facebook grabbing and sharing data
Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way a controversial ad system worked.More than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition calling on the company to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology.
When Facebook users shopped online, Beacon told friends and ...
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Government-sponsored cyberattacks on the rise
Saturday, December 1st, 2007Governments are using the Internet to spy and launch cyberattacks that target critical systems, according to McAfee's cybersecurity report By Jon Brodkin Governments and allied groups worldwide are using the Internet to spy and launch cyberattacks on their enemies, targeting critical systems including electricity, air traffic control, financial markets, and government computer networks, according to McAfee's annual report examining global cybersecurity....
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Facebook Users Protest Online Tracking
Friday, November 30th, 2007By Louise Story and Brad Stone The New York Times Faced with its second mass protest by members in its short life span, Facebook, the enormously popular social networking Web site, is reining in some aspects of a controversial new advertising program. Within the last 10 days, more than 50,000 Facebook members have signed a petition objecting to the new program, which sends messages to users' friends about what they are buying on ...
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YouTube stops account of anti-torture activist
Thursday, November 29th, 2007YouTube stops account of Egypt anti-torture activist Cynthia Johnston CAIRO, Nov 27 (Reuters) - The video-sharing Web site YouTube has suspended the account of a prominent Egyptian anti-torture activist who posted videos of what he said was brutal behaviour by some Egyptian policemen, the activist said. Wael Abbas said close to 100 images he had sent to YouTube were no longer accessible, including clips depicting purported police brutality, voting irregularities and anti-government demonstrations. ...
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Google Refuses to Run Impeachment Ad
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007By Ralph Lopez Google has refused to run the following sponsored ad and link paid for by the Northeast Impeachment Coalition and YaliesForImpeachment.org: Help Impeach Cheney NOW Nonpartisan, the time is here. House JC 202-225-3951 Demand ACTION YaliesForImpeachment.org Google's explanation is the following: "At this time, Google policy does not permit ad text that advocates against an individual, group, or organization. In addition, this policy doe not permit the advertisement of websites that advocate ...
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Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds
Friday, November 16th, 2007Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds By Ryan Singel Hushmail, a longtime provider of encrypted web-based email, markets itself by saying that "not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer." But it turns out that statement seems not to apply to individuals targeted by government agencies that ...
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EBay spends $2M lobbying gov agencies including CIA
Saturday, October 27th, 2007CBS News Online auctioneer eBay Inc. spent almost US$2-million lobbying various departments of the federal government in the past year, including an entity rarely named on federal disclosure forms: the Central Intelligence Agency. According to a database maintained by the Senate's public records office, eBay is one of eight groups and companies to lobby the spy agency. The company listed the CIA on a form covering its lobbying activities for the first ...
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Google Calls For Global Privacy Standards
Sunday, September 16th, 2007Executives with the search engine want to start a discussion about international privacy standards which work to protect everyone's privacy on the Internet. By Thomas Claburn Privacy today is the exception; Google on Friday called for privacy to be the rule.In a ...
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The Internet is superior medium for news
Saturday, August 18th, 2007People are watching less TV news and increasing number gets their news primarily from the Internet, according to latest studies. There are any reasons: plastic anchors with plastic words and smiles, artificial urgent presentations with teases about what’s up, next or tonight (nothing is in the moment), 20 minutes of commercials an hour, plummeting credibility… The Internet is clearly a superior medium for news, says Cory Bergman, an ...
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Robert Fisk: No wonder the bloggers are winning
Saturday, July 21st, 2007These gutless papers explain why more people are Googling than turning pages I despise the internet. It's irresponsible and, often, a net of hate. And I don't have time for Blogopops. But here's a tale of two gutless newspapers which explains why more and more people are Googling rather than turning pages. First the Los Angeles Times. Last year, reporter Mark Arax was assigned a routine story on the 1915 genocide ...
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Censors order bloggers to use real names on internet
Saturday, July 7th, 2007Chatroom users will be required to register with their real names after an internet campaign mobilised 10,000 people to join a protest march By Jane Macartney Anonymous online postings are to be banned by a city in China, after residents mounted a successful internet campaign against proposals for a huge chemicals factory. Internet users will have to provide their real names, backed up by data from their identity cards, ...
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Google sued over defamatory postings found on web search
Friday, June 29th, 2007By Robert Verkaik Google, the world's biggest search engine, is being sued by a London businessman in a landmark legal action that could hold the US-based company liable for the publication of inaccurate, malicious or damaging material on the internet. The case, the first of its kind in this country that seeks to make search engines responsible for the content of the internet - could trigger severe restrictions on ...
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Journalists lawsuit against Yahoo! grows
Thursday, June 14th, 2007Jailed Chinese reporter Shi Tao seeks compensation from major U.S. Internet company for identifying him to the government By Melissa Wang AsiaMedia Staff Writer Shi Tao, a jailed Chinese reporter and poet, has joined a U.S. lawsuit against Yahoo! Inc. for providing user information to the Chinese government. The suit, filed by the World Organization for Human Rights USA in April, claims that Yahoo! provided identifying information ...
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The limits of online freedom
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007We can't take an all or nothing approach to online expression, argues Bill Thompson. Bill Thompson The idea that the internet is an unregulated space where free expression is the guiding principle and we can all talk openly took another blow last week with the latest report on net filtering from the Open Net Initiative. Their study found many countries were filtering websites and email, and some were blocking new ...
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