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TCLP 2010-02-28 News
This is news cast 207, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, explaining my advertise experiment, a change to the podcast’s license going forward, and OggCamp 10. This week’s security...
View ArticleGoogle and Tor
Google’s open source blog has a post about their contributions, through the Summer of Code program primarily, to the Tor project and much more on why Tor and tools like it are important. Tor is a tool...
View ArticleNZ Stealthily Launches Net Filter
The Register explains how the filter has actually been running since about mid-February. Not all ISPs are onboard, only two are using the now voluntary filter with several more intending to do so....
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 3/28/2010
More thoughts on internet freedom from Ethan Zuckerman ACTA agenda leaks, still minimal time for transparency EU consultation on ACTA fails to advance the discussion Consolidated ACTA leak and first...
View ArticleState Supreme Court Rules Net Filters in Libraries are Constitutional
Jacqui Cheung has the details at Ars Technica. It is worth noting that the dissenting judges in the opinion were strongly opposed to the majority of judges who overruled them, making network censorship...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 5/23/2010
New OAuth 2.0 draft released TPB goes down in face of latest legal threat Google faces US, German regulators over WiFi data collection Google also faces criminal action in Germany And a civil suit in...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Problem Privacy Bill in Canada, VLC Update Supports...
Canada’s not very privacy friendly privacy refrom bill Michael Geist has all of the pertinent details. Cory at Boing Boing likened this to the US’s PATRIOT Act but it actually reads like a subset of...
View ArticleDoctors Possibly Being Urged to Seek Copyright Assignment for Censorship
Cory at Boing Boing links to some investigation by writer Jason Sanford into a distressing quote from a NYT article. Sanford notes two versions of a quote about a group, Medical Justice, seeking to...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 6/20/2010
Law firm steps in to defend folks from USCG IEEE still flogging DRM scheme it thinks consumers will accept State department has incorporated internet censorship into its policy priorities Senators...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 7/4/2010
EU rushing to ACTA agreed Report on meeting with ACTA negotiators in Lucerne EU action alert on ACTA USTR statement on ACTA makes no mention of releasing latest draft ACTA will reach final draft in...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Origin of the Blink Tag, Blocking Political Speech with...
Origin of the HTML blink tag Via Hacker News, I love that this ties back to Lynx, a text based browser I still use from time to time. It is also an excellent example of the odd thought process that...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 7/11/2010
ACTA consensus on transparency breaking down WIPO worried at why countries felt ACTA needed to be handled outside of WIPO An update to the interactive ACTA timeline MP Angus calls out Moore, Clement...
View ArticleAnticensorship Tool Relies on Unwillingness to Block Social, User Generated...
Nothing about Collage, developed at Georgia Tech is particularly novel, as this Networkworld article, via Slashdot, explains. At its core it uses steganography, hiding messages in other information, a...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 7/18/2010
FCC dodges pointed questions about broadband plan SCO evidence of Linux copying finally provided, not very compelling Ruling that reduced Tenenbaum damages compares p2p to unlicensed public...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 7/25/2010
FCC’s third way plan isn’t bringing the two sides of net neutrality any closer together Next round starting against initially named defendants in USCG’s massive demand campaign US caves on...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 8/1/2010
Australia censors most of web censorship plan Facebook may finally be allowing full deletion of user accounts Peter Sunde banned from operating The Pirate Bay Patent office ends Microsoft’s attempt to...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Schmidt Steps in It Again, Acting Against Broadening of...
Google’s Schmidt stirs the online privacy pot again Slashdot links to coverage of Schmidt’s speech at the Techonomy event currently going on. The remark in question was specifically about anonymity...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Faster JavaScript for Firefox 4, Details of Google’s New...
JaegerMonkey now in Firefox nightly builds, ReadWriteWeb Google moves beyond map/reduce for new index system The Register has some surprisingly good crunchy technical detail on how and why Caffeine...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > More License Options at Google Code, Piracy as an Excuse...
Google expands license options for its code hosting service Clarification on anti-piracy’s supposed DoS attacks against infringers TorrentFreak has some excellent quotes from the firm in question and...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Security Concerns about Diaspora Code, 6502 Assembly in...
Diaspora code fails to pass muster on security On one hand, what The Register explains based on early analysis is hardly surprising. This code didn’t exist just a few months ago and it is clearly...
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