Internet
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Ireland copyright battle: Newspapers demand $400 for sharing links
The body representing Ireland’s main newspapers is demanding a minimum of $400 for third parties to directly link their articles, sparking an unprecedented copyright row which strikes at the very heart of sharing content on the World Wide Web. Continue reading
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Technological Servitude By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high tech devices, while driving, while walking, while shopping, while in groups of friends, while in restaurants, while waiting in doctor offices and hospitals, while sitting in toilets – everywhere. While connected electronically, they are inattentive to and disconnected in physical reality. Continue reading
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Global split over telecom treaty By Kevin Reed
The 2012 World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT-12) in Dubai collapsed on Friday, December 14 after the United States delegation walked out and refused to sign the new International Telecommunications Union (ITU) treaty. Western allies including the UK, France, Germany, Australia and Canada joined the US. Continue reading
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Facebook Yields to Pressure: Reactivates Political Critics’ Accounts
Prominent political critics confirmed to us that their accounts had been suspended or inactivated yesterday in a coordinated purge. Continue reading
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Facebook Yields to Pressure: Reactivates Political Critics’ Accounts
Prominent political critics confirmed to us that their accounts had been suspended or inactivated yesterday in a coordinated purge. Continue reading
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Wired’s Most Dangerous: Russia’s cyber-security mogul behind Flame virus downfall hits top 15
“If all he did in the last year was intercede in America’s efforts to short-circuit Iran’s nuclear ambitions – definitively unmasking a cyber-weapon for the first time – Kaspersky would’ve earned himself a spot on our list of the most dangerous people in the world.” Continue reading
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Google starts watching what you do off the Internet too
The most powerful company on the Internet just got a whole lot creepier: a new service from Google merges offline consumer info with online intelligence, allowing advertisers to target users based on what they do at the keyboard and at the mall. Continue reading
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Speak2Tweet: Google & Twitter Partner Up with US State Dept. to Monopolise Information Flow Out of Syria By Martin Iqbal
Amid Internet and telephone network outages in Syria, US-trained opposition activists use US-supplied satellite phones to contact Google & Twitter’s ‘Speak2Tweet‘ service. Despite these efforts, the service seems so far to be a resounding failure. Continue reading
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Orwellian “Eavesdropping on a Worldwide Scale”: United Nations asks for Control over the World’s Internet
Members of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) have agreed to work towards implementing a standard for the Internet that would allow for eavesdropping on a worldwide scale. Continue reading
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Orwellian “Eavesdropping on a Worldwide Scale”: United Nations asks for Control over the World’s Internet
Members of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) have agreed to work towards implementing a standard for the Internet that would allow for eavesdropping on a worldwide scale. Continue reading
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Video: Assange to RT: Entire nations intercepted online, key turned to totalitarian rule
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says all the necessary physical infrastructure for absolute totalitarianism through the internet is ready. He told RT that the question now is whether the turnkey process that already started will go all the way. Continue reading
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European Parliament votes to protect Wikileaks against financial blockade
In a landmark decision today the European Parliament initiated the drafting of legislation that would stop the arbitrary banking blockades against WikiLeaks and other organizations facing economic censorship. Continue reading
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“Anonymous” Winning Cyber-War Over Israel
When the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) this week began taking military action in the Gaza strip against Hamas (as the IDF announced on Twitter), Anonymous declared its own war as part of #OpIsrael. Among the casualties are thousands of email addresses and passwords, hundreds of Israeli Web sites, government-owned as well as privately owned pages,… Continue reading
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Anonymous warns Israel: ‘No one cuts Gaza internet on our watch!’
The hacktivist group Anonymous is angry at Israel, and not just for launching deadly airstrikes on Gaza. Members say the Israeli government “crossed a line in the sand” when it threatened to sever internet and other telecommunications in Gaza. Continue reading
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Bloggers’ fear: Russian crackdown on illegal web content causes stir
The federal law ‘On information, information technology and protection of information’ that came into force on November 1 empowered Russia’s Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technology and Communications to compose a blacklist of websites to be closed down. Public discontent over a ban on popular websites in the Russian sector of the internet is skyrocketing.… Continue reading
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The EyeOpener- The Future of the Web (and what you can do about it)
In mid-2012, in the wake of the ratification of ACTA and the proposal in the US of bills like SOPA and PIPA, in an age where the war on terror is gradually morphing into a cyberwar and database hacks, password leaks and identity thefts are reported on breathlessly, it is difficult to imagine the promise… Continue reading
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Stuxnet and the Bomb By Kennette Benedict
The cyber shot heard around the world this month marked America’s first known foray into a new, unpredictable, and potentially society-threatening cyber battlefield. And yet it’s all so familiar: Parallels with the start of the nuclear age and the Cold War haunt every aspect of this development. Continue reading
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Darpa director leaving the Pentagon for Google
Regina Dugan oversaw the development of some of the US military’s most marvelous high tech accomplishments as director of Darpa, but the head of the DoD’s research lab is parting ways with the Pentagon to take on a role with Google. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 