The blog has registered and activated a domain that upon visiting will use a random proxy to take the internet user to the main page of The Pirate Bay. This enables subscribers of those ISPs in The Netherlands, which were forced by court order to block access to The Pirate Bay, to still visit that particular website.
Dutch language article:
http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/2012/04/de_geenstijl_pirate_bay_forwar.html
With this paradoxical arrangement, they aim to provide a far easier way of building and modifying and rebuilding the networks that run the largest services on the web and beyond.
In short, Martin Casado envisions a world where networks can be programmed like computers.
The idea that you ultimately own your data is pretty fundamental to creating effective privacy legislation. If you’re the sovereign “owner” of your data, then everyone from the spooks to Facebook must come to you and seek your permission – and justify using it. But if you don’t “own” anything, then you have nothing to assert. If you don’t “own” your data, then you are the product.
But the idea of attaching ownership to digital things is bitterly fought. Google fights every attempt with the response that it “breaks the internet“. This fight against ownership and permissions is actually the bedrock of Utopian belief – that nobody can own, or deny, or exclude, or assert rights on digital things. And people who don’t take this nuttily dogmatic position are still fatalistic: they shrug, and conclude we shouldn’t try. This had led to the quite surreal spectacle of libertarians fighting furiously against property rights, and the rule of law.
But this is beginning to change.
As Mark Bide told us: “Privacy and copyright are two things nobody cares about unless it’s their own privacy, and their own copyright.”
More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/16/privacy_property_rights_permissions_mailbag/
Cord-cutting is a big factor. Personal taste naturally varies, but in my view the advance of technology democratised content creation and enabled a generation of talented creators to capitalise on a resistance to innovation by established media. Reality TV was what did it for me; channel after channel of absolute crap got me to cut the cord in 2003
Anonymous member James Jeffery last month hacked into the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and stole 10,000 database records. He has now been sentenced to 32 months in jail
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/anti-abortion-hacker-jailed-for-stealing-10000-records/11558
First, he warned of the security flaw in Iran’s banking system. Then he provided them with 1,000 bank account details. When they didn’t listen, he hacked 3 million accounts across at least 22 banks.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/3-million-bank-accounts-hacked-in-iran/11577
Am The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, anybody? Seriously, who falls for that? Apparently, a lot of people.
http://gizmodo.com/5902283/amazon-is-overrun-with-a-plague-of-fake-books
Said to be a member of hacker activist group Anonymous, the man is alleged to have been involved in bringing down police Web sites
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57414740-83/ohio-man-charged-in-utah-police-hacks/
Stats on volcanic eruptions show pattern called Benford’s Law
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/fun-with-numbers-volcanoes-obey-benfords-law.ars
http://torrentfreak.com/us-megauploads-hosting-company-might-be-sued-next-120415/
See also:
U.S. says MegaUpload’s hosting service Carpathia is no innocent bystander. MegaUpload put Carpathia on the map
http://vrritti.com/2012/04/14/u-s-says-megauploads-hosting-service-carpathia-is-no-innocent-bystander/
Judge wants MegaUpload user data preserved for now. Govt claims that Carpathia generated $35 million from working with MegaUpload
http://vrritti.com/2012/04/13/judge-wants-megaupload-user-data-preserved-for-now-govt-claims-that-carpathia-generated-35-million-from-working-with-megaupload/
The economic downturn that has shaken Europe for the last three years has also swept away the foundations of once-sturdy lives, leading to an alarming spike in suicide rates. Especially in the most fragile nations like Greece, Ireland and Italy, small-business owners and entrepreneurs are increasingly taking their own lives in a phenomenon some European newspapers have started calling “suicide by economic crisis.”
For it seems that Google is using real images from Street View as security checks. Yes, if you want to access your own Google account, the company is asking you to decipher a slightly blurry image of a real house number.
It seems that if enough people decide on a particular number, then Google sharpens up the image on Street View.
The government raises several other objections. It argues that because Dotcom is fighting extradition, he is a “fugitive from justice” and not entitled to be represented in US courts until the extradition fight is over. And the government complains that it would be too confusing to have to deal simultaneously with two different Dotcom legal teams—one in the United States and the other in New Zealand.
Quinn Emanuel sums up Megaupload’s plight in its brief:
[Megaupload] has constitutional rights to due process and to the advice of counsel. Yet, if the Government is to have its way in this case, the only lawyers before the Court will be those representing the Government. If the Government is to have its way, the only evidence available to the Court would be that cherry-picked by the Government, for the Government, from the universe of relevant servers slated to be wiped. If the Government is to have its way, in sum, Megaupload will never get its day in Court and the case will effectively be over before it has even begun. Megaupload’s fate will have been sealed by virtue of an indictment and corresponding asset freeze executed without the benefit of any adversarial proceeding or opportunity to be heard. Megaupload’s constitutional rights to contest the charges against it in a fair proceeding would be rendered worse than nugatory; they would be transformed into empty promises.
