by Joseph Forbes | Mar 15, 2013 | LAW, MONEY, PIRACY, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the you-can-trust-us dept. The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department...
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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 8, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PIRACY
from the except-for-the-deep-packet-inspection dept. “It’s been well-established all over the Web that the just-implemented ‘Six Strikes’ system is bad… horrible, worthy of death to those who created it. But let’s take a deep breath...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 7, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
from the peek-a-boo-you-can’t-see-me dept. Today’s video is an interview with the Corporate Alliance Director and the Chief Technology Officer of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), a non-profit organization that claims it is...
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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 4, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, PRIVACY, Technicals
Earlier this week the six strikes anti-piracy system finally launched more than a year later than initially planned. One of the things that stood out most was the lack of information released through official channels. On launch day the Center for Copyright...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 2, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, PIRACY
from the prior-permission-and-assumed-wrongdoing dept. This last week, the Copyright Alert System was rolled out. Now that everyone is getting a better idea of what the alert system looks like, criticisms are building against the system. Freezenet says that the mere...
