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
Archive for December, 2011
Man Who Tweeted And E-mailed Death Threats To A Dutch Mayor And The Queen Of The Netherlands Has Been Committed To A Psychiatric Hospital For The Duration Of One Year
Posted: 2011/12/31 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence
New Year’s Celebrations In The East, Kill Twitter In The West. WhatsApp also in trouble
Posted: 2011/12/31 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsTwitter in The Netherlands down half the day
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2705125/twitter-tijdens-jaarwisseling-ontoegankelijk-wegens-onderhoud.html
2011 was the year that the entertainment industries focused on piracy-fueled Internet censorship
Posted: 2011/12/31 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Illegal File SharingDomain 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
Posted: 2011/12/31 in Education / Awareness, LitigationHackers plan to launch satellites to block Internet censorship
Posted: 2011/12/31 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionThe 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
Posted: 2011/12/31 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, LegislationThose three companies all supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) when it first entered Congress, according to a report from Joystiq in November.
To protect Care2 members we are resetting access to all (17.9 million) Care2 accounts
Posted: 2011/12/31 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessWe 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
Posted: 2011/12/31 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsIt’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
Posted: 2011/12/31 in Education / Awareness“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
Posted: 2011/12/31 in Education / AwarenessMPAA published a blog post which looked at DNS filtering, why apparently it’s a good thing, and how it won’t break the Internet
Posted: 2011/12/31 in Blocking, Education / Awareness“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
Posted: 2011/12/31 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Public PolicyA request from Iran’s internet watchdog to remove material critical of the government had been ignored
First Siri, Now Threat Detection: Inside SRI’s Amazing R&D
Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionNew Chinese space plans are all about security and strategy on Earth
Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / AwarenessNothing 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
Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyThis 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
Posted: 2011/12/30 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessDutch language news article:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/79057/hacker-kraakt-thetvdb-punt-com.html
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab are claiming to have found proof that the writers of the Stuxnet and Duqu malware are one and the same
Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsand 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/
Dutch Police Chief Martin Sitalsing Worked With Israel Based Security Vendor Athena To Scan Public Information For ‘Anomalies’
Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, New Business Models“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
Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / AwarenessTech 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
