Mr Cerf warned “It’s very, very hard to get the internet to forget things that you don’t want it to remember because it’s easy to download and copy and reupload files again later.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9173449/Vint-Cerf-attacks-European-internet-policy.html
But at the same time, they’re buying less and less gear from Cisco, HP, Juniper, and the rest of the world’s largest networking vendors. It’s an irony that could lead to a major shift in the worldwide hardware market.
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/03/google-microsoft-network-gear/
Cuz other countries have no clue how to build in backdoors
Despite shared concerns, pioneers in the movement say the methods of a newer generation abridge free speech and hurt the cause.
“Hacktivism is a civic ethic that I think is integral to a liberal democratic society today, but with one caveat. I don’t condone breaking the law.”
Cops had the audacity to force RIPE to assist them in fighting cybercrime. RIPE wants to revisit definition of ‘safe harbor’ and ‘mere conduit”
The Dutch Team High Tech Crime was cracking a case related to massive malware distribution, affecting (and infecting) 4 million PCs. The cyber criminals were enjoying a revenue of 10 million EUR as they caused the PCs they had infected to visit web pages containing ads they’d put up themselves.
One of the servers used by the criminals was located in The Netherlands and that’s when the Dutch police ordered RIPE, which is administrating all the IP addresses in Europe, to freeze 4 relevant blocks of IP addresses preventing their owner from making any changes to related registration data at RIPE.
RIPE followed up on the order but immediately objected against the nature of this order by filing a complaint with the Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office.
One of RIPE’s main objections right now is that the Public Prosecutor’s Office appears to have threatened RIPE with confiscation of (parts of) their administration, making it impossible for RIPE to continue doing business.
RIPE argues that the practices of the Dutch Team High Tech Crime and the Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office are jeopardizing the integrity of its computer systems and the safe and unlimited functioning of the internet as well.
RIPE wants to know where its liability and responsibility begins and ends.
Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/110033/ripe-sleept-high-tech-crime-unit-voor-de-rechter-.html
Sources in the financial sector are calling the breach “massive,” and say it may involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers.
The card associations stated that the breached credit card processor was compromised between Jan. 21, 2012 and Feb. 25, 2012. The alerts also said that full Track 1 and Track 2 data was taken – meaning that the information could be used to counterfeit new cards.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/03/mastercard-visa-warn-of-processor-breach/
It’s clear that some are still doing well but for others including some seriously major players, it’s turned out to be a disaster
http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-shutdown-inflicts-pleasure-pain-on-cyberlockers-120330/
White Man In Asia
Sunde’s situation is also unclear. Although he is required to spend his 8 month sentence in the Västervik Norra prison, his lawyer Peter Althin has hinted that there may some sort of appeal in the spring.
Fredrik Neij, aka TiAMO, was told he will spend 10 months in Kirseberg prison in Malmö, Sweden. Neij has made no secret of his time in Thailand during recent years but his current whereabouts are unknown.
Finally, the not insignificant matter of money, specifically the 46 million kronor the Pirate Bay four are required to hand over to the movie and recording company plaintiffs to compensate them for their claimed losses. That’s roughly $6.9 million dollars but it doesn’t stop there since there is a significant amount of interest to be added.
As of a month ago the amount owed had jumped nearly 60% to 73 million kronor – $10.97 million. Or put it another way, an extra $1 million each for Neij, Sunde, Svartholm and Lundström.
But as the founders have made clear for a long time, this amount could be a billion each, they don’t plan on paying anything. The authorities simply can’t find any assets in their names in Sweden. They did find 225,000 kronor ($33,800) belonging to Lundström, but the successful businessman probably won’t worry too much about that.
More:
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-damages-rise-60-police-ready-hunt-for-missing-founder-120329/
Hackers Need To Make Sure They’re Saving The World Economy And Wear Their White Hats
Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/110013/europarlement–ethisch-hacken-niet-strafbaar.html
Dutch language news article:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/81006/sony-brengt-eigen-muziekdienst-in-april-uit-in-nederland.html
MegaUpload wants access to its servers to defend against U.S. charges of piracy and racketeering. But its lawyer says officials won’t release $1 million necessary to get the information.
Buy their own songs online using many different IP addresses
Dutch language news article:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/81013/artiesten-manipuleren-hitparade-via-proxys.html
“Isn’t Clarke coming right out and saying we committed an act of undeclared war?”
http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/03/richard-clarke-says-stuxnet-was-a-u-s-operation/
Freedom of speech and information vs data and network security
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/media/2775775/website-omroep-zeeland-deels-geblokkeerd.html
Though Anonymous hackers undoubtedly include some of the best and brightest techies out there, they would likely pale in comparison to the cumulative power of hackers operating under the sponsorship of a large Asian government (we won’t name any names), or a coordinated rogue terror network that acts not for the purpose of protest, but devastation.
If such an attack were to be unleashed on the Untied States terrorism experts suggest a coordinated take-down of the entire United States could be executed in as little as 15 minutes.
It won’t necessarily make them reflect on the world’s growing authoritarianism. It may make them look with more skepticism at the alternative media movement that Anonymous is supposedly aligned with.
More ominously, even, it will feed into the elite meme that the Internet is a dangerous and unpredictable place, one that needs to be rigorously controlled and scrutinized. Anonymous, within this context, has just reaffirmed its place as a great argument for SOPA and increased Internet censorship generally. Coincidence?
Well … who actually knows what Anonymous is? There have been allegations all along that the group was in a sense a controlled opposition because its targets were almost invariably private enterprise. And recently, it was revealed that the FBI had “turned” one of its leaders, who is now facing a trial and jail.
Ironically, Anonymous plans its project to as a PROTEST of SOPA! Here’s how the group puts it: “To protest SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun, On March 31, anonymous will shut the Internet down.”
http://thedailybell.com/3742/Assange-and-Anonymous-Acting-as-Predicted
Big data, big leaks, big disruptions, big trouble?
http://gizmodo.com/5897657/obama-administration-plans-to-drop-200-million-on-big-data
