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Defendant Ordered to Decrypt Laptop May Have Forgotten Password
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Photo: Some girl named Jen/Flickr A Colorado woman ordered to decrypt her laptop so prosecutors may use the files against her in a criminal case might have forgotten the password, the defendant’s attorney said Monday. The authorities seized the Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2010 with a...
The Pirate Bay copyright crackdown is unsustainable | James Ball
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To block even one high-profile filesharing website would quickly require apparatus as sophisticated as the great firewall of ChinaThe battle against those who violate copyright is escalating: a UK court has ordered the country's internet service providers (ISPs) to block the Pirate Bay website for copyright violations, using technology originally...
Theresa May defends email surveillance plans
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Home secretary says extension of powers for security services to monitor web communications is vital to catch criminalsThe home secretary has defended government plans to extend the powers of the security services to monitor the public's email, telephone calls and social media communications against growing criticism, insisting they are vital...
Richard Clarke, US Security Wonk, Suggests Customs Should Check All International Net Traffic
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Richard Clarke was a major feature in US security for a decade, serving as a member of the National Security Council and special adviser for cybersecurity to President George W. Bush. He has written a column for the New York Times that details just how serious the threat of cyber...
Why did MPAA exec join Internet Society?
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Paul Brigner campaigned for SOPA, but now he says he's 'adjusted' his thinking. Is he a mole? No, he's just woken up to realityLate in March, I started to get a steady stream of emails from concerned readers: did you see that the Internet Society has appointed the former chief...
Canada wants warrantless Internet spying, says critics back child pornographers
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Canada's conservative government has re-introduced an Internet surveillance bill that would allow the government to obtain information about Internet subscribers—without a warrant. The legislation would require service providers to provide law enforcement with IP addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and other information on demand. The bill would also "require...
Brazilian Government Ordering Web Hosting Firms To Kill Domain Names They Don't Like
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A lawyer I know passed along a letter from the Brazilian government to Sedo, a company that helps sell domains and also hosts parked domains (on which it puts some advertising), demanding that it take down a domain that it did not like. The text of the email is included...
Google and Twitter may struggle to resist UK censors
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As I reported yesterday, a British parliamentary committee is gunning for Google, Twitter and Facebook, and asking them to filter their services to comply with court orders intended to protect individuals’ privacy. But now the web services are starting to push back. The furore started when Ryan Giggs, a famous...
Feature: "The hidden side of your soul": How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot
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The e-mail arrived in James Charles Cafferty's inbox on July 14, 2011. Unlike most unsolicited e-mail on the Internet, the message did not pitch mortgages, get rich quick scams, or penis pills. Instead, it provided a link to an under-the-radar child pornography website and the password needed to access...
Microsoft, NetClean Aim To Stop Child Pornography By Bringing PhotoDNA Tech To Law Enforcement
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In a world where we can build all kinds of crazy apps and software, it’s a bit shocking that more hasn’t been done to stop the proliferation of child pornography on the Internet. But Microsoft is trying to do its part with the company’s PhotoDNA technology, which helps find and...
Authors Can Sleep Easy Now; Paypal Reverses Its Censorship Decision
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Just last week, we learned PayPal had implemented policies that would limit the types of erotic fiction ebook publishers could sell. This sparked quite the discussion and outrage among those not just interested in protecting erotica, but also interested in preserving the freedom of authors to publish what they want....
Calligo creates an offshore cloud (with a cameo from Nicira)
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It’s unclear if a small, niche player that offers the benefits having actual servers located on the Channel Islands can create a business that can compete with Amazon’s infrastructure as a service or the myriad private clouds people want to build, but the experiment is worth watching. Calligo, founded by...
Reddit, Police Thyself
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Tools cannot judge of their own use. The hammer does not rebel at striking pavement, the brush recoil at distasteful composition. This is true of the internet and its tools as well. What is bittorrent? A way to easily transfer large files between peers. Used by many people in legitimate...
US government: We hear there's child porn on those Megaupload servers, judge!
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Carpathia Hosting, which owns over 600 servers leased by Megaupload before the government shut down the file-sharing site, has a problem: those servers are worth serious money, but no one is paying the bills. Megaupload wants the servers back to help with its defense, but with most of its...
Reddit tries to crack down on child pornography with new rules banning suggestive subreddits
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Running a massive online community is a tricky business. The administrators who police the site are trying to strike a balance between encouraging users to contribute and keeping unsavoury and illegal behaviour to a minimum. Reddit, a news aggregator and online community which has seen massive growth over the last...
Microsoft gives photo-matching tech to cops to fight child pornography
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Microsoft and NetClean, a software company focused on tools for stopping the spread of child pornography online, have announced that they are partnering to give law enforcement agencies access to Microsoft's PhotoDNA image-matching technology at no cost to help in the investigation of child sex abuse cases. The software...
Boot up: FBI honeypots, Apple results, internet population doubles, Skype on Nokia and more
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Plus RIM and Nokia and the valley of mobile doom, Microsoft and the consumer, the Oatmeal on the state of the web, and moreA quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team"The hidden side of your soul": How the FBI uses the...
Danish Police Accidentally Censor Over 8,000 Sites As Child Porn... Including Facebook & Google
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Reminiscent of the mooo.com screwup in the US, where Homeland Security's ICE division "accidentally" seized 84,000 sites and plastered them over with a warning graphic about how they'd been seized by the US government for child porn, the Danish police similarly "accidentally" had 8,000 legitimate sites declared as child porn...
Canadian Politician: You're Either In Favor Of Letting The Gov't Spy On Your Internet Usage... Or You're For Child Pornography
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Up in Canada, they're pushing for a new "lawful access" bill, which is basically a "government can spy on your internet usage" bill. Michael Geist has a full and complete run down about the new effort and why it's crazy. But, the insane part came out of the introduction when...
Canadian Politician: You're Either In Favor Of Letting The Gov't Spy On Your Internet Usage... Or You're For Child Pornography
Police error adds Google, Facebook, and more to Danish child pornography blacklist
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A clerical error led to two Danish ISPs mistakenly blocking around 8,000 websites, including Google and Facebook, for several hours on the grounds of containing child pornography. Customers of the Siminn ISP who tried to access the affected pages were greeted with the following message: "The National High Tech...
Microsoft gives PhotoDNA matching software to police to help find child pornography
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A tool that helps websites track down and eliminate pornographic photos of children is now being deployed for law enforcement. Microsoft's PhotoDNA software, which matches images against a list of known pictures, will now be included in the free NetClean Analyze software already used by police, the Microsoft-developed Child...
Reddit: “Jailbait is bad, but pics of dead kids are OK”
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In an unexpected watershed moment, one of the last remaining bastions of free speech, Reddit, has banned the posting of “suggestive or sexual content featuring minors.” In one fell swoop Reddit has asserted that it retains moral control over the direction and usage of the site. Around 30 offending subreddits...
Prosecutors: "pedodave69" was former top FBI agent
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Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson Law enforcement v. Internet sex criminals How a fake Justin Bieber "sextorted" hundreds of girls through Facebook How would-be pedophiles use Craigslist—and how they get caught "The hidden side of your soul": How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot Logging...
PayPal eases 'acceptable use' policy after being met with ebook censorship criticisms
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Last month, PayPal contacted a number of online ebook vendors advising them of its "acceptable use" policy that prohibits businesses using its payment services from selling erotic literature that contains child pornography, rape, incest, and bestiality. The company's reasoning was seemingly based around two ideas: such works often include...
Dutch Economics Minister Says ACTA Is Designed To Shut Down Child Porn Sites... Even Though That's Not True
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If you've been paying attention lately, you've probably heard SOPA/PIPA/ACTA supporters insisting that anyone against those bills is involved in a misinformation campaign. This seems pretty ridiculous, considering the level of misinformation that has been spewed for decades in support of these kinds of laws. But it's reaching a new...
Dutch Economics Minister Says ACTA Is Designed To Shut Down Child Porn Sites... Even Though That's Not True
Tor anonymizing tool stymied FBI child porn inquiry, document reveals
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Tor, the anonymizing tool used by everyone from privacy advocates to drug dealers to dissidents, has apparently stopped the FBI from pursuing a potential child pornography bust on at least one occasion. A report recently released by the Department of Justice discusses how content on one of the largest...
Google’s Wojcicki fires back at “misinformed” Ari Emanuel
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Google’s Susan Wojcicki Google’s Susan Wojcicki defended the search giant Thursday against the newest claims from the content industry that it has amassed a fortune partly on the back of pirated content, made the previous night by “superagent” Ari Emanuel at the D: All Things Digital conference. “I think he...
Time To Move Beyond ‘Sharing’ And ‘Stealing’ in the Debate over Content
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In the debate over online content, Robert Levine is a rare honest broker. The former Wired journalist doesn’t parrot the fear-mongering of major copyright owners and nor does he embrace the tech utopias of the other side. Speaking at the Copyright Clearance Center’s OnCopyright 2012, Levine dressed-down the rhetorical excesses of...
New York State Appeals Court Rules That Looking at Child Porn is Now Legal
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(flickr.com/crobj) Deep web crawlers who have ever accidentally clicked on anything labeled "CP" may now breathe a sigh of relief: an appeals court in New York decided today in a vaguely disturbing ruling that simply viewing child pornography is not a crime. According to MSNBC: The decision rests on whether accessing...
Is this SOPA the sequel?
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The Texas congressman who sponsored SOPA now wants to give law enforcement power to seize personal Internet data without a warrant. FORTUNE -- After failing (at least for the time being) in his effort to circumvent both the U.S. Constitution and the basic workings of the Internet with Stop Online...
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