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Archive for 2011/03/30
106 WikiLeaks donor email addresses, not the 58 reported in the press
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Education / AwarenessAs chance would have it, one of the donors whom we had thanked on this occasion was a certain Adrian Lamo. He was the semi-famous ex-hacker responsible for the arrest of US Army private Bradley Manning, who has been accused of being one of our sources.
“Look at that,” Julian said when he discovered Lamo’s contribution. “What an idiot!”
New XSS Facebook Worm Allows Automatic Wall Posts
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data ProtectionCancer-Detector the Size of a Dime Can Also Spot HIV
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionInside the Big Business of Spam Botnets
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionBully Block for Android Lets You Collect Evidence to Bust Those Bullies
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Education / AwarenessWith that episode still playing in repeats, available on DVD and now on Netflix streaming in the United States, Tesla says it was forced to act: “The BBC’s conduct has given us no choice but to sue them and clear up their lies.”
“We’re not doing this for money,” said Ricardo Reyes, Tesla’s communications chief. “As the world leader in EV technology, Tesla owes it to the public to stop Top Gear’s disinformation campaign and provide the truth.”
More: http://gizmodo.com/#!5787000/tesla-sues-top-gear-over-rigged-electric-car-test
Android Apps Now Support In-App Billing
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionMicrosoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Felt Betrayed By Bill Gates
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Education / AwarenessBE’s Managing Director Chris Stening confirmed that the ISP expects to launch a new method later this year, which should resolve some of the old problems and hopefully lead to content blocks that don’t inadvertently end up restricting access to legitimate content
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionSouth Korean authorities have conducted one of the biggest piracy crackdowns involving so-called cyberlocker sites
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Public Policy, Stats / reports19 of the country’s top services were targeted which together served up to 4 million users
Liberty Media filed a lawsuit against a BitTorrent swarm
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Education / Awareness, LitigationIf it’s really true that reducing piracy leads to greater sales, that would surprise me, but it would be good to know
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File SharingDid Limewire Shutdown Increase Music Sales?
Infamously leaky oil company BP has lost a laptop containing personal information, social security numbers and other details on 13,000 people claiming compensation for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data ProtectionThe laptop was password-protected but not encrypted. It was lost 1 March by a travelling BP exec.
Paris Court of Appeal adopts monitoring obligation for Google
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Education / Awareness, Google, JurisprudenceAmazon.com has launched a new music streaming service that allows users to store their music in a cloud-based account. This means that users have their own virtual safe on the Internet, the so-called “cloud drive”. The files are no longer stored in the memory of many different devices such as laptops, phones or tablets
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionAnyone with an Amazon profile can now upload five gigabytes of (music) files via this new service.
