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Sony is accusing alleged PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz of surrendering two “non-functional” hard drives in violation of a court order, and then taking off to South America. Read More…..
Hack Obtains 9 Bogus Certificates for Prominent Websites; Traced to Iran In a fresh blow to the fundamental integrity of the internet, a hacker last week obtained legitimate web certificates that would have allowed him to impersonate some of the top sites on the internet, including the login pages used by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stop the republican party from purposely collapsing the US economy in their effort to make a smaller US federal government. Read More…..
A federal magistrate is granting Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who has visited PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz’s website from January of 2009 to the present. Thursday’s decision by Magistrate Joseph Spero to allow Sony to subpoena Hotz’s web provider (.pdf) raises a host of web-privacy concerns. Read More…..
There is a noticeable increase in comments posted by people allegedly paid by the Chinese government. Chinese online activists have complained in recent days of a huge upsurge in the volume of microblog posts from netizens they say are in the pay of the government. Read More…..
wants your address and mobile phone number. But it’s not sure exactly how to ask. It’s a complicated digital courtship, particularly because Facebook doesn’t just want this data for itself — it wants to “share” this info with all of its friends, which in this case happens to be app developers (think FarmVille, Compare People […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The lead transportation security officer at Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey has admitted that he and his supervisor regularly stole money from travelers’ bags during security screenings.” “Separately, two TSA agents at a New York City airport were arrested this month on charges of stealing $40,000 from passengers’ luggage.” Read More…..
After being hammered by a massive distributed denial of service attack yesterday, blog host WordPress.com was barely able to get things up and running like normal before getting walloped a second time in two days. This time, however, WordPress managed to get a handle on the situation rather quickly, though there’s still no word on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rights groups call the action “brutal” amid concerns over the condition of the couple. Local authorities in China have severely beaten a blind activist and his wife, apparently in retaliation for the couple’s release of a video detailing the harsh conditions of their life under house arrest, according to Chinese rights groups. Read More…..
Spokane, Washington, United States of America January 20, 2011 – Admittedly oil speculation is off-topic, but with oil speculators poised to possibly take oil related commodities (including gasoline, natural gas and heating oil) to new economy-harming highs, the institute wanted to put itself on record as highly against this abusive practice. As a former commodity […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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