PIN code not even needed
Dutch language news article: http://tweakers.net/nieuws/74574/nieuwe-creditcard-beveiliging-is-te-omzeilen.html
Archive for 2011/05/20
Let me Stuxnet you!
Posted: 2011/05/20 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data ProtectionSurely nobody would sell stolen credit cards on Twitter?
Posted: 2011/05/20 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessMs. Jacobsen, a national security reporter and contributing editor to The Los Angeles Times Magazine, happened to be at a 2007 family dinner with her husband’s uncle’s wife’s sister’s 88-year-old husband, the physicist Edward Lovick, when Mr. Lovick leaned over and said, “Have I got a good story for you”
Posted: 2011/05/20 in Education / AwarenessArea 51. Not even President Clinton was able to gain full knowledge of what the military contractors at Area 51 were up to
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/books/area-51-by-annie-jacobsen-review.html
Norway’s Ministry of Culture has just proposed legislative changes designed to further crack down on illicit file-sharing
Posted: 2011/05/20 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Public PolicyIn addition to smoothing the way for Internet users to be monitored more easily by rightsholders, amendments have been tabled which would order file-sharing sites to be blocked at the ISP level. Top of the list, The Pirate Bay
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-heads-norwegian-domain-blocking-list-110520/
This morning German police confiscated the servers of the Pirate Party, currently the sixth largest political party in Germany
Posted: 2011/05/20 in Education / Awareness, Enforcementa plausible target of the raid could be the Piratepad service. Piratepad allows people to collaboratively draft documents, and unconfirmed rumors suggest that it was used to plan a DDoS attack against a French company
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-servers-raided-by-german-police-110520/
EU And China Harmonize Their Approach On Censorship
Posted: 2011/05/20 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicySymantec buys Clearwell tech that makes lawyers poorer
Posted: 2011/05/20 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionElectronic discovery (eDiscovery) is technology to enable to a digital document store, holding things like emails, word processing documents and spreadsheets, to be searched on settable parameters with qualifying documents sequestered in a separate logical place. There they are held in an unalterable state – legal hold – ready for detailed inspection. The costs of eDiscovery are said to be markedly lower than paying for lawyers to trawl through a document store, and eDiscovery is also said to be a lot quicker, again saving on lawyers’ per-hour billing fees.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/20/symantec_buying_clearwell/
We will organize the world’s information. Except the old newspapers
Posted: 2011/05/20 in Education / Awareness, GoogleSenator to Apple, Google: why are DUI checkpoint apps still available?
Posted: 2011/05/20 in Education / Awareness, GoogleNew EU legislation enables consumers to switch mobile operator in one day and keep the same phone number
Posted: 2011/05/20 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Mobile tech, Public PolicyDutch language news article: http://www.nu.nl/gadgets/2520213/in-werkdag-wisselen-van-telefoonbedrijf.html
Google’s Really Trying to Kill The URL Bar
Posted: 2011/05/20 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?, GoogleThe Super Clear Displays of the Future
Posted: 2011/05/20 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?, Tech EvolutionThe internet can literally only agree on one thing: child pornography is awful and the worst: Facebook Hunting Kiddie Porn Pervs with Microsoft Algorithm
Posted: 2011/05/20 in Education / Awareness, Enforcementhttp://gizmodo.com/5803590/facebook-hunting-kiddie-porn-pervs-with-microsoft-algorithm
Previously:
Majority of Dutch MPs against use of internet filtering technologies to fight distribution of online child abuse images
Dutch language news article: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2517775/kamermeerderheid-internetfilter.html
