I got a comment on my recent post “Is Hushmail Safe?” where someone expressed the idea that a privacy service located in Canada wouldn’t be able to provide you with any real protection because of it’s proximity to the US and MLAT treaties between the two.
That’s the question that more and more people are asking after Comcast and then others have been caught interfering with customers net connections by sending false reset packets to both sides of a bittorrent transfer.
Bell was recently required to release some of it’s data that was supposed to prove how torrents and P2P in general was causing so much network congestion that it was necessary to throttle P2P connections to keep it under control
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Cornell University has come up with an Azureus Plugin called “Cubit” that I think is one of the first such that will give the ability for it to handle “decentralized approximate keyword search capabilities”.
This means that [...]
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Rep. Howard Coble of North Carolina, a member of the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, recently wrote something recently with the sensationalist title “Share your music — lose your identity“, which shows that in my opinion there is a more than probable chance that he’s pretty [...]
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That’s right. According to a recent article on slashdot,
A Japanese government panel is proposing to govern influential, widely read news-related sites as newspapers and broadcasting are now regulated.
Any time a government starts getting into the business of controlling news in any form, you’re headed down a road to an [...]
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There’s an article on the Washington Post site that takes a look at the potential of a world with RFID chips embedded in just about anything you can name.
A world in which reader devices, most of which would be connected to the Internet, all over the place. These readers would [...]
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That’s right. In the case of Sierra Corporate Design, Inc., v. David Ritz, a judge found that it was illegal to issue a “Host -l” command. Anyone with a bit of networking knowledge knows (or can find out quickly) that this command initiates a “zone transfer“. That [...]
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This not only ought to be interesting, but it’s kinda important as well. I just saw an article on Arstechnica talking about how the FCC has opened rule-making proceedings over the huge amount of noise created when Comcast got caught blocking p2p traffic by sending false signals to both [...]
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Being a tad behind the times, I only just now saw a slasdot piece from the other day about ISP’s and their plans to filter traffic in an effort to stop the sharing of copyrighted material.
I can see that this is another one of those subjects that’s going to get a [...]
