Judge doesn’t want the man to be criminally prosecuted, but treated in a psychiatric hospital instead
Dutch language verdict:
http://www.dossierdenhaag.nl/PDF/Rechtspraak-Beatrix-dec-2011.pdf
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers
New Year’s Celebrations In The East, Kill Twitter In The West. WhatsApp also in trouble
Twitter in The Netherlands down half the day
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2705125/twitter-tijdens-jaarwisseling-ontoegankelijk-wegens-onderhoud.html
Queen knights Apple design chief Sir Jonathan Ive in New Year’s honours list
2011 was the year that the entertainment industries focused on piracy-fueled Internet censorship
Domain seizures, DNS blockades, raids and arrests dominated the news, and the threat of the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US left millions of Internet users worried
http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-wars-and-internet-censorship-111231/
Twitter lawsuit threatened over alleged Hezbollah aid
Hackers plan to launch satellites to block Internet censorship
The hacker activist Nick Farr first put out calls for people to contribute to the project in August. He said that the increasing threat of Internet censorship had motivated the project.
“The first goal is an uncensorable internet in space. Let’s take the Internet out of the control of terrestrial entities,” The BBC quoted Farr, as saying.
He cited the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) in the United States as an example of the kind of threat facing online freedom. If passed, the act would allow for some sites to be blocked on copyright grounds.
Previously:
DeSopa intercepts URLs, sends the base URL to three offshore DNS services via HTTP, makes a best effort to check that two of them are equivalent, caches the IP for the browser session, redirects to the equivalent URL using the IP, and substitutes out the domain name in the source code with the IP address for future requests
http://vrritti.com/2011/12/21/desopa-intercepts-urls-sends-the-base-url-to-three-offshore-dns-services-via-http-makes-a-best-effort-to-check-that-two-of-them-are-equivalent-caches-the-ip-for-the-browser-session-redirects-to-th/
Nintendo, Electronic Arts and SONY have now dropped support for SOPA
Those three companies all supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) when it first entered Congress, according to a report from Joystiq in November.
Some doctors using aggressive copyright enforcement to block competing diagnostic tests from being available
To protect Care2 members we are resetting access to all (17.9 million) Care2 accounts
We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience. Given our large membership size, we have become a significant target for spammers and hackers over the past few years, and this was the first hacking attempt that successfully breached our protective walls. We take the security of our members very seriously and are taking this extreme step of changing all passwords to reduce the chances of any possible negative consequences.
http://www.care2.com/care2blog/to-all-care2-members-security-breach.html
Facebook’s apps now have 300 million monthly active users
Should search engines become regulated? Should they be held liable for facilitating access to potentially copyrighted material?
It’s time to dump the full 75,000 names, addresses, CCs and md5 hashed passwords to every customer that has ever paid Stratfor. But that’s not all: we’re also dumping ~860,000 usernames, email addresses, and md5 hashed passwords for everyone who’s ever registered on Stratfor’s site, the post says, adding that 50,000 of the e-mail addresses end in .mil or .gov domains
“We almost have sympathy for those poor DHS employees and australian billionaires who had their bank accounts looted by the lulz … But what did you expect?” the post says. “All our lives we have been robbed blindly and brutalized by corrupted politicians, establishmentarians and government agencies sex shops, and now it’s time to take it back.”
The post then goes on to warn that hackers will attack “multiple law enforcement targets from coast to coast” on New Year’s Eve and that there will be “noise demonstrations” outside of jails and prisons around the world in solidarity with the prisoners.
How to easily transfer videos to the Kindle Fire with Miro
Verizon Wireless has dropped plans to institute a $2 convenience fee for subscribers who pay their bills online or via phone calls
MPAA published a blog post which looked at DNS filtering, why apparently it’s a good thing, and how it won’t break the Internet
“There is nothing new about the techniques of domain blocking used to target criminals in the Stop Online Piracy Act,” the MPAA’s Paul Hortenstine wrote.
“They are currently used to protect consumers and combat all kinds of harmful behavior including spam, phishing, malware, viruses, copyright infringement and other forms of Internet crime”
http://torrentfreak.com/domain-blocking-will-encourage-yet-more-fraud-and-scams-111230/
Iran ex-President Rafsanjani’s website blocked
A request from Iran’s internet watchdog to remove material critical of the government had been ignored
USC Film Students Practice Artistic Craft Through Games
First Siri, Now Threat Detection: Inside SRI’s Amazing R&D
An authorized reseller in France has filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging unfair competition, mirroring complaints by United States resellers that Apple favors its own retail stores over resellers when it ships new products
Korea sets the standard for government datacenters
Technology failure rule No. 1 is that when everything hits the fan you need to outline how a project went wrong and what’s being done to fix it. For good measure, outages should include an apology
China’s ten major search engines have agreed to put banks’ official homepages at the top of search results for related queries in a move to curb cyber scams, according to a statement from the Ministry of Public Security
Can A Company Keep An Employee’s LinkedIn Account After They’re No Longer Employed?
Some 150 officers from forces south of the Scottish border have been disciplined for their antics on Facebook in the past four years
New Chinese space plans are all about security and strategy on Earth
Nothing much to do with manned or deep space exploring
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/30/chinese_space_white_paper/
Dutch Intelligence Agencies May Be Allowed To Intercept And Filter Online Data Indiscriminately
This is already common practice in the U.S.
Dutch language news article:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/79060/veiligheidsdiensten-krijgen-mogelijk-meer-aftapbevoegdheden.html
Website TheTVDB.com hacked – 58,000 usernames and passwords retrieved – 8,000 API accounts compromised
Dutch language news article:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/79057/hacker-kraakt-thetvdb-punt-com.html
The Electric Frontier Foundation has won its appeal to continue a case into massive warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency using facilities within commercial exchanges
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab are claiming to have found proof that the writers of the Stuxnet and Duqu malware are one and the same
and are warning of at least three new families of advanced malware potentially in circulation
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/30/kaspersky_stuxnet_duqu_link/
US deploys 1.8 gigapixel helicopter surveillance drones to Afghanistan
Words are powerful. They can move listeners or readers to action, sometimes even to harm themselves or someone else. But generally, our society doesn’t punish the speaker or writer
Lamar Smith, Against Regulating The Internet… Until Hollywood Became His Biggest Campaign Funder
Dutch Police Chief Martin Sitalsing Worked With Israel Based Security Vendor Athena To Scan Public Information For ‘Anomalies’
“By collecting the right information one can change people’s mind in a timely fashion and thwart criminals”
Sitalsing makes a plea for putting more internet investigators to work at Dutch law enforcement agencies
Dutch language news article:
http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/3098682/2011/12/29/Investeer-minder-in-blauw-op-straat-en-meer-in-internetrechercheurs.dhtml
See also:
http://www.athenaiss.com/
Tech culture has strong relationships with disorders and illnesses related to acute stress, depression, autism, and the tragedy of suicide
Tech culture is also no stranger to accusations among its ranks of both borderline and narcissistic personality disorders.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/techs-relationship-with-depression-suicide-and-aspergers/904
