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Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Spain's Proposed Internet Law Sparks Protest, ChangeLast Monday, the Spanish Government published the latest draft for the Sustainable Economy Act, which would enable a Commission dependent of the Ministry of Culture to take down websites without a court order, in cases of Intellectual Property piracy. On Wednesday, using Google Wave, a group of ...
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Watch Out Foursquare, Facebook is Poised To Dominate GeoOver the last six months just about all of my tech friends have started using Foursquare, a geolocation-based game that was built by the creators of Google-acquired Dodgeball. Some of them will literally pull out their phones as soon as they enter any restaurant, event or even TechCrunch HQ and ...
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The End of Online AnonymityThe End of Online Anonymity It seems we're approaching a new age here on the Internet. Instead being anonymous, faceless IP addresses, social computing and changing technologies have allowed the lines between the "real" world and the "virtual" world to blur. Web 2.0 helped create a world ...
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Slipstream - How Private Can Electronic Data Ever Be?When 2+2 Equals a Privacy Question TIME to revisit the always compelling — and often disconcerting — debate over digital privacy. So, what might your movie picks and your medical records have in common? How about a potentially false sense of control over who can see your user history? While ...
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How Hackers Snatch Real-Time Security ID Numbers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.comHow Hackers Snatch Real-Time Security ID Numbers The world’s savviest hackers are on to the “real-time Web” and using it to devilish effect. The real-time Web is the fire hose of information coming from services like Twitter. The latest generation of Trojans — nasty little programs that ...
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Twitter Wants To Track Your ClicksTwitter Wants To Track Your Clicks by Erick Schonfeld on August 25, 2009 Just before Twitter went down today (yup, it was down again), I noticed something strange. Whenever I clicked on any shortened link in my Twitter stream and look at the address bar of my browser, I saw a fleeting ...
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How Hackers Snatch Real-Time Security ID Numbers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.comHow Hackers Snatch Real-Time Security ID Numbers The world’s savviest hackers are on to the “real-time Web” and using it to devilish effect. The real-time Web is the fire hose of information coming from services like Twitter. The latest generation of Trojans — nasty little programs that ...
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Internet firms resist ministers’ plan to spy on every e-mail - Times OnlineInternet firms have condemned the government’s “Big Brother” surveillance plans as an “unwarranted” intrusion into people’s privacy. The companies, which ministers are relying on to implement the scheme, also say the government has misled the public about how far it plans to go in monitoring ...
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Keyboard hack could leave your Mac completely vulnerable - MacFixItWritten by Joe Aimonetti While most of the attention for Apple fans during the recent security conventions in Las Vegas was centered on the SMS vulnerability uncovered last month, another hack surfaced--taking advantage of keyboard flash memory--allowing for the hacker to gain complete control ...
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The Anatomy Of The Twitter AttackThe Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack by Nik Cubrilovic on July 19, 2009 The Twitter document leak fiasco started with a simple story that personal accounts of Twitter employees were hacked. Twitter CEO Evan Williams commented on that story, saying that Twitter itself was mostly unaffected. ...
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