China: Cyber Wars on the Horizon

12-01-2007 • Ginn

Are Americans ready for the Chinese hackers. China hacks the U.S., as well as the rest of the world. Are US hackers good enough?

YouTube stops account of Egypt anti-torture activist

11-27-2007 • CAIRO, Nov 27 (Reuters)

"They closed it (the account) and they sent me an e-mail saying that it will be suspended because there were lots of complaints about the content, especially the content of torture," Abbas told Reuters

Top 10 Emails This Year: How Many Did You Receive?

11-25-2007 • mondoreb

Nigerian doctors, slashers under the car and rat poison on your envelope glue--just a sample of news you may have received in your email during the last year.

Internet Could Max Out by 2010

11-24-07 • PC World

Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure.

Hushmail turns out to be anything but

11-18-2007 • iTNews

A court document in a drug smuggling case has shown that the private email service Hushmail has been cooperating with police in handing over user emails...

MySpace Suicide Story Sparks Reactions: Outrage!

11-14-2007 • Mondoreb

The MySpace suicide of Megan Meier after adults attacked her on the Internet site sparked reactions across the country. They were all of the same type: disbelief and outrage.

Yahoo settles with jailed Chinese dissidents

11-13-2007 • MarketWatch.com

Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday settled a lawsuit filed by Chinese dissidents and their family members who accused the Internet company of complicity in their jailing, following a humiliating episode on Capitol Hill.

Cruel MySpace Prank Leads to Teen's Suicide

11-13-2007 • Ginn

A cruel and unbelievably vicious prank perpetrated upon a young girl has stripped away the Leave To Beaver veneer of a suburban St. Louis neighborhood. Those responsible included parents.

Arizona team's tool seeks online terrorists

11-11-2007 • Arizona Republic

Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a tool that uses clues to automate the analysis of online jihadism. The Dark Web project aims to scour Web sites, forums and chat rooms to find the Internet's most prolific and influential j

No email privacy rights under Constitution, US gov claims

11-04-2007 • www.theregister.co.uk

At issue is whether the procedure whereby the government can subpoena stored copies of your email - similar to the way they could simply subpoena any physical mail sitting on your desk - is unconstitutionally broad.

What if you had had the chance to revenue share with the owners of MySpace, YouTube, GoDaddy orGoogle? That would be the opportunity of the century!!!!

What if you had had the chance to revenue share with the owners of MySpace, YouTube, GoDaddy or Google? That would be the opportunity of the century!!!!

MySpace Joins Google Alliance to Counter Facebook

11-01-2007 • New York Times

MySpace and Bebo, two of the world’s largest social networking sites, on Thursday joined a Google-led alliance that is promoting a common set of standards for software developers to write programs for social networks.

Blocking Network Packets - The Comcast Fiasco

10-25-2007 • Geeks Are Sexy

It started five days ago when the Associated Press ran a story called “Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic.” In this story, the reporter, Peter Svensson, points out that Comcast was blocking P2P traffic by interfering with certain packet streams.

Free Halloween Masks

10-23-2007 • News Groper

Although the Ron Paul mask is sure to scare the neocon beggars who come to your door, the Fred Thompson will scare everybody! It even looks scary.

Ron Paul outpacing rivals in Internet traffic

10-22-2007 • www.SpinBee.com

There is no doubt about it: Ron Paul has a well organized grassroots effort going, and it is showing up everywhere on the Internet. (CHART)

Taxing the Internet (not if Ron Paul is elected)

10-21-2007 • www.populistamerica.com

On November 1st of this year, the tax moratorium on the Internet is set to expire. If not renewed, Internet users could expect to see higher internet rates as additional taxes could be applied.

Ordinary Citizens Help Track Down Internet Terrorists

10-21-2007 • Mondoreb

Those who grew up watching Westerns know all about local citizens banding together to form posses and help track down killers. Now, ordinary citizens, not government agencies, are doing more to track down al-Qaeda operatives on the Internet in the

Chertoff Says the Next Big Terror Threat is - You!

10-19-2007 • Wired

Disaffected people could develop radical ideologies over the Internet posing the next big terror threat according to the Homeland Security chief. In other news, the bogeyman really does live in your closet.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Subpoenas the Internet Readers of the <i>Phoenix New Times</i>

10-19-2007<b> • NY Times

"It is, we fear, the authorities' belief that what you are about to read here is against the law to publish," they wrote. "But there are moments when civil disobedience is merely the last option. We pray our judgment is free of

RIAA Sues Usenet, Decries it as Napster, Kazaa

10-17-2007 • Wired

The usenet.com case marks a dramatic shift in the RIAA's recent litigation strategy -- targeting an alleged facilitator of copyright theft instead of an individual pirate. The RIAA has sued more than 20,000 people on allegations of copyright thef

Google's YouTube Debuts Copyright Enforcement System

10-17-2007 • InformationWeek

The technology is designed to let content owners prevent YouTube users from uploading copies of their videos, or they can have the choice of monetizing unauthorized uploads with ads.

MySpace adds Skype VOIP to popular social network

10-17-2007 • ComputerWorld

MySpaceIM With Skype, integrates MySpace's instant messaging client - which now has 25 million registered users - with Skype's free telephone service, allowing MySpace clients to make free internet calls to MySpace or Skype users.

Five Years in Jail for Porn Spammers

10-17-2007 • NewsFactor

While the spam conviction is a "proud and successful case for the Justice Department," it serves to illustrate the limits of criminal prosecution on the spam problem, said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle. "It

How Comcast Censors Political Content

10-15-2007 • BS Alert

Anyone using Comcast has been unable to receive any Email with "www.afterdowningstreet.org" in the body of the Email. That has included every Email from me, since that was in my signature at the bottom of every Email I sent.

Bloggers beware when you criticize the rich and powerful

10-9-2007 • IHT

The daily blog, of a former U.K. ambassador to Uzbekistan vanished after Murray's British Internet provider received a flurry of ominous legal letters demanding the removal of "potentially defamatory" information about a mining mogul wi

Former security czar calls for closed internet

10-6-2007 • The Register

Richard Clarke, who served President Bush as a special adviser for cyber security, has a five-point plan for saving the internet, including biometric IDs, government regulation, an industry wide standard for secure software and a closed internet.

Soon you'll be paying more to read this

10-3-2007 • National Review

In my piece on Democrats and taxes today, I neglected to mention that even as he seeks the return of the 3-martini lunch, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) is setting you up for a tax on your Internet service by letting the moratorium on Internet taxes expir