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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 11, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
The launch of the six strikes anti-piracy scheme in the United States has boosted demand for VPN services and BitTorrent proxies. Data from Google reveals a big surge in searches for terms such as “BitTorrent VPN” and “BitTorrent proxy” over the past two weeks. Some...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | DATA, LAW, NERD NEWS
from the new-life dept. Katherine Rosenberg reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety has unveiled a new web site dedicated to unsolved cold case homicides to make sure the victims are not forgotten and to try to catch a break in even the coldest of cases....
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, LAW, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the answering-questions-of-patriotism dept. Bradley Manning, the 25-year-old U.S. Army soldier who allegedly leaked hundreds of thousands of internal memos about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has been held by the government for two and a half years. On...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the let’s-also-tax-keystrokes-and-thinking-about-cats dept. The Berkeley, CA city council recently met to discuss the closing of their downtown post office, in attempt to find a way to keep it from relocating. This included talk of ‘a very tiny...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 8, 2013 | LAW, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the give-me-room-lots-of-room dept. The Supreme Court may have approved the warrantless wiretapping of American citizens for just about forever, but the good old state of Texas isn’t going to take that lying down. Texas lawmakers don’t believe that...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 7, 2013 | LAW, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
Federal Trade Commission says illegal texters blasted 180 million illegal messages in past year The Federal Trade Commission today said it has filed eight court cases to stop companies who have sent over 180 million illegal or deceptive text messages to all manner of...
