Archive for 2011/03/23
Lynx Excite Angel Ambush London Victoria
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution“The following are almost all the vulnerabilities I found for a quick experiment some months ago in certain well known server-side SCADA softwares still vulnerable in this moment”
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Education / Awareness, Network SecurityIn case someone doesn’t know SCADA (like me before the tests): it’s just one or more softwares (usually a core, a graphical part and a database) that allow people to monitor and control the various hardware sensors and mechanisms located in industrial environments like nuclear plants, refineries, gas pipelines, airports and other less and more critical fields that go from the energy to the public infrastructures and obviously also the small “normal” industries.
Dutch soccer association KNVB wins internet piracy case against MyP2P
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, JurisprudenceMyP2P has to cease broadcasts of live soccer matches and other sports events. KNVB contemplating damage claims
Dutch language article: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2474563/knvb-wint-rechtszaak-internetpiraterij.html
About TOR: Why would any govt create something their enemies can easily use against them, then continue funding it once they know it helps the enemy, if a govt has absolutely no control over it?
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyThe *PURPOSE* was for DoD / Intelligence usage (open source intelligence gathering, covering of forward deployed assets, whatever). Not helping dissidents in repressive countries. Not assisting criminals in covering their electronic tracks. Not helping bit-torrent users avoid MPAA/RIAA prosecution. Not giving a 10 year old a way to bypass an anti-porn filter.
A Beijing entrepreneur, discussing restaurant choices with his fiancée over their cellphones last week, quoted Queen Gertrude’s response to Hamlet: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” The second time he said the word “protest,” her phone cut off
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Filtering, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyPwnage – Xperia PLAY
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionThis iPod/iPhone Docking Station Can Stream Your Netflix Content
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionTV Networks Hate the New Time Warner iPad App
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolutionhttp://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20046091-261.html
See also:
Lengthy Outages for WordPress.com, Netflix
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/03/22/lengthy-outages-for-wordpress-com-netflix/
UK Government Delay Internet Piracy Tackling Digital Economy Act to Spring 2012
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public PolicyLegal concerns over how ISP costs are apportioned (here), an official review of the website blocking proposals (here), problems with the fallibility of using IP addresses as evidence (as highlighted by the recent ACS Law case) and a Judicial Review (here) brought forward by two ISPs, BT and TalkTalk UK, have all conspired to delay the act. Not to mention the many technical hurdles that Ofcom has had to overcome in drafting its initial Code of Practice (here).
There are actually five grounds for the Judicial Review, which are:
· Compliance with Technical Standards Directive (which says there was a need to notify Europe in advance of the legislation);
· Compatibility with privacy directives;
· Compatibility with e-commerce directives;
· Whether the obligations are proportionate;
· Additional issue of potential incompatibility with the Authorisation Directive which is part of EU law governing the regulation of communication providers including ISPs.
“Due process” and “free speech,” those aren’t joking concepts. They are the underpinnings of a free society, and both are clearly under attack by the crux of these domain seizures
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public Policycan you explain an actual common sense reason why there couldn’t have been an actual trial first?
For a short time on Tuesday, internet traffic sent between Facebook and subscribers to AT&T’s internet service passed through hardware belonging to the state-owned China Telecom before reaching its final destination, a security researcher said
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyAustralia is working through the long process of acceding to the European Convention on Cybercrime. It’s a process that causes significant angst. Privacy advocates are concerned at the convention’s intrusive nature; ISPs worry about how much data they’d have to carry
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Public PolicyAn appeals court has ruled that the ACLU, Amnesty International, and other groups have the legal standing to pursue a lawsuit over the NSA’s domestic surveillance program. The Obama administration may still play its “state secrets” trump card, however
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Education / Awareness, Filtering, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyGoogle spends $1 million on censorship and throttling detection
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Bandwidth Management, Blocking, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Future Developments?, Google, Mobile tech, Net Neutrality, Network Security, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Tech EvolutionGoogle is paying Georgia Tech researchers to build consumer tools that can detect Internet throttling and government censorship, for both home and mobile devices. At the end of the project, the Georgia Tech team hopes to provide “a suite of Web-based, Internet-scale measurement tools that any user around the world could access for free.
With the help of these tools, users could determine whether their ISPs are providing the kind of service customers are paying for, and whether the data they send and receive over their network connections is being tampered with by governments and/or ISPs.”
Google maps 300TB of real-world Internet speed data
Posted: 2011/03/23 in Education / Awareness, Google, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionTwo years of data on actual download speeds around the world has now been graphed by Google’s Public Data Explorer.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/google-maps-300tb-of-real-world-internet-speeds.ars
