February 12, 2006 - February 18, 2006 Archive
February 17, 2006
Google Desktop Banned in Universities, Hospitals
Data stored at Google for any length of time is "too long", says administrators.
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Curse of the Rootkit
Andrew Lack, CEO of Sony BMG is ousted. Bad publicity over their DRM is cited as one of the reasons.
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Posted at 07:46 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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DRM
Don't Want iPods, Happy to Take Hollywood's Dollar
Senators are refusing IPac's free culture iPods -- even though they take far more money from the entertainment industry without a qualm.
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Posted at 07:46 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Free Culture
Department of Home Directory Security
Homeland Security officials told Sony in "forceful terms" that rootkits weren't helping the fight to secure America's PCs.
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Posted at 07:46 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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DRM
Human Rights Protesters, Business Groups Like EFF's Code of Conduct for China
Do we need government intervention, or might Internet companies be able to save themselves?
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Posted at 07:46 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Free Speech
February 16, 2006
Patriot Search
A search engine that lets you report yourself to the authorities -- before someone else does.
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Posted at 03:19 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Chinese Government Removes Over 2,000 Websites
"Unhealthy" domestic sites closed down because "they had too much sex, violence or politics."
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Posted at 03:19 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Why Google Took the Wrong Course Over China
EFF's Brad Templeton on making a statement by your absence.
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Posted at 03:19 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Surveillance
Anonymizer Offering Free Software to Chinese Citizens
Maybe Google and co. could expand their downloadable software collections?
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Posted at 03:19 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Rootkits Hidden on German DVDs by Hollywood
The clumsy, frustrating, innovation-impeding DRM on DVDs just got a bit more malicious.
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Posted at 03:19 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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If I Had a Root Server
Fascinating thought experiment on the threats to privacy and security posed by DNS root server ownership, by former ICANN board member Karl Auerbach.
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Posted at 03:19 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Headlines Copyrightable? Get a Clue
Agence France Presse's attempts to assert copyright in their news stories' titles get shrift shorter than the headlines. News courtesy of William Patry.
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Posted at 03:19 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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