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Target.com will match prices on Amazon and 28 other stores
• CNN MoneyThe retailer had excluded Target.com purchases from its policy that lets customers get a better deal if they show that someone else is selling the same item for less. Price matching was only available at stores.
Lawmakers: U.S. plan for Internet may be unconstitutional
• http://www.prisonplanet.comPresident Obama's plan to "internationalize" the Internet may be unconstitutional, key members of Congress are claiming.
Mark Zuckerberg Announces Project to Connect Refugee Camps to the Internet
• http://www.nytimes.comMark Zuckerberg, promoted access to the Internet as "an enabler of human rights" and a "force for peace" on Saturday, as he announced that his company would help the United Nations bring Internet connections to refugee camps.
The UN Releases Plan to Push for Worldwide Internet Censorship
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Michael KriegerThe United Nations has disgraced itself immeasurably over the past month or so.
StormCloudsGathering is Under Attack - Major Changes Coming
• https://www.youtube.comYouTube/Google clamps down again on Truth.
Wikipedia's Lawsuit Against NSA Internet Vacuum Has First Day in Court
• http://www.usnews.comThe groups are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and say the NSA's "upstream" collection of Internet communications from the cables, routers and switches that make up the Internet's backbone is unconstitutional.
Hey FCC, Don't Lock Down Our Wi-Fi Routers
• WiredOn the coastal edge of Tunisia, a signal bounces between 11 rooftops and 12 routers, forming an invisible net that covers 70 percent of the city of Sayada.
Marketers thought the Web would allow perfectly targeted ads. Hasn't worked out that way.
• http://www.bloomberg.comRon Amram has been in the brand marketing business for about 20 years. In the 2000s he was media director for Sprint's prepaid cellular group, mainly figuring out where the carrier should spend its ad dollars
Chinese Premier in Town as China Pushes for UN-type Governance of Internet
• http://conservativeintel.comChinese president Xi Jinping is visiting the U.S. with a heavy itinerary. One of his stops included a speech Tuesday given to business leaders in Seattle addressing a number of concerns
09-23-15 -- William Boyes - Paige Peterson, Brian Sovryn (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Program Date:William Boyes (Prof Emeritus Economics @ ASU; Center for the Study of Economic Liberty) promotes his participation in the Mises Circle Event in Phoenix Nov 7 - Paige Peterson and Brian Sovryn come on the show to provide an update on MaidSAFE and...
A Dozen Libraries Want to Host Tor Nodes to Protest Government Fearmongering
• MotherboardA week after the Department of Homeland Security intimidated a New Hampshire public library into shutting down its Tor relay, about a dozen other libraries nationwide have shown interest in running their own Tor services.
Here's the Real Way to Get Internet to the Next 4 Billion People
• WiredAround 3.2 billion people have access to the Internet. That's amazing, but it's fewer than half of the 7 billion or so people on earth.
Agencies Say They Need Access to Americans' Emails Without a Warrant
• http://www.nationaljournal.com, Kaveh WaddellBut the FTC and SEC have not used the current subpoena process in five years.
An Internet Map To Rule Them All
• PopsciIt's detailed, open to the public, and still not a series of tubes
Save WiFi/Individual Comments
• Save WiFiGo to SaveWiFi.Org to make comments to the FCC about proposed requirements to manufactureres to lock down computing devices (routers, PCs, phones) to prevent modification if they have a "modular wireless radio"
Mapping How Tor's Anonymity Network Spread Around the World
• http://www.wired.com, ANDY GREENBERGONLINE PRIVACY PROJECTS come and go. But as the anonymity software Tor approaches its tenth year online, it's grown into a powerful, deeply-rooted privacy network overlaid across the internet.
These are the two forgotten architects of Silk Road
• Motherboardhese individuals coded large portions of the site and attempted to expand Silk Road from a single drug market into a cryptographic empire with a range of services.
What I learned about the Internet after 25 years in prison
• kernelmag.dailydot.comThe Internet did not exist when I began serving my prison sentence in 1987.
Security Now Podcast #523: uBlock Origin by Steve Gibson
• YouTube.Com - Security Now - Steve GibsonRunning Firefox as a "normal" user, malvertising hits MSN, Amazon & Google tighten up on Flash, Windows 7& 8 quietly get new and unwanted features, Dave Winer: "Mac OS is spyware too," and Steve Gibson goes over the features of uBlock Origin.
How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream
• TEDIf you want to buy high-quality, low-price cocaine, there really is only one place to go, and that is the dark net anonymous markets.
Apple TV to challenge Sony and Microsoft as a gaming device
• Yahoo FinanceApple is poised to begin its big push into the living room with a new version of its internet television box designed to challenge Sony and Microsoft with advanced gaming features.
New FCC rules could ban DD-WRT and wireless router modification
• https://www.extremetech.com, By Joel HruskaFor more than a decade, consumers have been downloading and installing open-source firmware packages for various popular routers.
Save Wifi :the FCC is attempting to criminalize freedom via new regulations
• thinkpenguin.comWill you help us save wifi?
Google Chrome will start blocking Adobe Flash ads today
• http://fortune.com, by Michal AddadyFlash ads will be paused by default, and advertisers just have to hope users will voluntarily decide to play them.
Google's New Logo Is Trying Really Hard to Look Friendly
• WiredGoogle has become so much more than than a white webpage with a text box.
Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam....
• independent.co.ukHundreds of small British businesses and minor celebrities have been targeted by a sophisticated blackmail scam orchestrated by "rogue editors" at Wikipedia, The Independent can reveal.
Animated map reveals the 550,000 miles of cable hidden under the ocean
• http://www.businessinsider.comEvery time you visit a web page or send an email, data is being sent and received through an intricate cable system that stretches around the globe. Since the 1850s, we've been laying cables across oceans to become better connected.
YouTube as you know it is about to change dramatically
• theverge.comWould you pay to avoid ads on YouTube?
Russia banned Wikipedia because it couldn't censor pages
• theverge.comGovernment agency blocked website over a drug-related entry, but the blackout was short-lived