The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says:
* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube [...]
Fears have been raised about the scale of the UK’s “surveillance state” after it was revealed 1,500 requests to snoop on the public were made every day last year.
Councils, police and the intelligence services asked more than 500,000 times for approval to access private email and phone data, according to official figures.
Each request allows public [...]
(Dead Man Musing)
Over the past 8 years I have been on-line full-time. Its how I tried to make a living. Over the past 8 years I have also had my efforts destroyed by increasingly frequent hacking of my websites, blogs etc. I started thinking it was the enemies I made at Farmers Insurance Group when [...]
Amazon basically deleted every single legitimately-purchased copy of 1984 from all Kindles remotely.
Apparently, the publisher changed its mind about having electronic versions of Orwell’s books. So Amazon removed them from the store and in the process remotely deleted the books from the Kindles of anyone who bought them.
If there’s a better argument for dead-tree books [...]
Tens of thousands of virus infected computers in South Korea are set to self destruct on Friday the government has warned.
After 3 sustained days of attack against South Korean and U.S sites taking many offline for hours, the U.S. government websites, including websites of the White House, the U.S. State Department and the New York [...]
