Archive for 2011/11/01

The Obama administration has started an official petition website called “We the People,” in which Americans can propose and vote on petitions for consideration by the White House

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/white-house-blame-the-courts-not-us-for-software-patents.ars

White House nominates two lawyers as FCC Commissioners

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/white-house-nominates-two-lawyers-as-fcc-commissioners.ars

Researchers have figured out one way the Stuxnet-like Duqu Trojan is infecting computers: via a Word document that exploits a previously unknown Windows kernel bug

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20128611-245/zero-day-windows-kernel-bug-used-in-duqu-infections/

Japan shows off world’s largest glasses-free 3D display

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20128603-1/japan-shows-off-worlds-largest-glasses-free-3d-display/

Judge Claims UK ISP Judicial Review of Anti-Piracy Law Has Prospect of Success

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/11/01/judge-claims-uk-isp-judicial-review-of-anti-piracy-law-has-prospect-of-success.html

EU TRILOGY Team Win Award for Internet Congestion Busting MPTCP Protocol

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/11/01/eu-trilogy-team-win-award-for-internet-congestion-busting-mptcp-protocol.html

After an extended preview, Google has started to push the new, simplified Gmail design to users, finally bringing the entire Google Apps suite under one GUI umbrella

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness, Google

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/google-debuts-gmails-new-design/3435

Google has started indexing AJAX and JavaScript content. This includes, for example, the Facebook Comments Box many sites use to power their commenting system

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness, Google

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/google-starts-indexing-facebook-comments-ajaxjavascript-content/4978

Too many countries are interfering in their citizens’ right to internet freedom, the Foreign Secretary told the London Conference on Cyberspace

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/foreign_secretary_internet_freedom/

Leading online rights campaigners have penned a letter to Foreign Secretary William Hague urging the government to maintain freedom and privacy while promoting security

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/internet_freedom_letter/

How websites use your browser to sell you for cash

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/how_to_stay_anonymous/

French nuclear power group Areva may have fallen victim to an operating system-level electronic attack, which was first detected in September

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/french_nuke_firm_mystery/

Google has begun telling users of its Gmail service exactly why it is serving up specific ads that creepily refer to the content detailed in individual email correspondence

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness, Google, Online advertising

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/google_ads_gmail/

Yahoo! is buying advertising network Interclick, which is best known in these pages, at least, for winning a lawsuit brought against its cookie respawning and history sniffing techniques

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness, Online advertising

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/yahoo_buys_interclick/

Cameron loves net freedom – as long as no one’s rioting

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/pm_supports_net_freedom_when_no_riots/

Open Rights Group denies Netflix is coming to the UK

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/open_rights_group_oops/

The Silicon Valley mirror-tocracy

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/silicon_valley_navel_gazing/

Asian countries collectively relayed more than half (50.1 per cent) of the world’s spam last quarter

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/asian_spam_deluge/

US Vice President Joe Biden has made it clear that America is not interested in the sort of global internet rules that China and Russia have been calling for

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/us_reject_china_russia_internet_rules/

WhatsApp crossed its own milestone for the first time by sending just over 1 billion messages in a single day

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2011/10/one-billion-messages/

Fox-IT and TNO receive 800k EUR funding to build Cyber Attack Detector to fend off Cyber Espionage

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/108422/fox-it-en-tno-bouwen-systeem-tegen-cyberspionage.html

Yes, You Can Compete With Free, But It Has To Be Done Right

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110930/02532116147/yes-you-can-compete-with-free-it-has-to-be-done-right.shtml

Petition: Stop the E-PARASITE Act

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/stop-e-parasite-act/SWBYXX55

Companies and individuals that frequently link to Google Maps will soon have to pay for this service

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business Models

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/11/01/google-maps-to-charge-heavy-users.html

As of today (1 November 2011), the Dutch Independent Arbitration Commission for Copyrights starts its activities. Disputes about fees for copyrights or related rights now can be brought before the Arbitration Commission

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Copyright, Education / Awareness

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/11/01/dutch-independent-arbitration-commission-for-copyrights-starting-today.html

Guilty Verdict in Record-Breaking Swedish File-Sharing Case

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence

http://torrentfreak.com/guilty-verdict-in-record-breaking-swedish-file-sharing-case-111101/

MPAA Lashes Out Against Rogue Cyberlockers

Posted: 2011/11/01 in Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Stats / reports

http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-lashes-out-against-rogue-cyberlockers-111101/