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Lawsuit Against RIAA Could Stop ‘em Cold

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Tanya Anderson, originally sued for copyright infringement by the RIAA in 2005 and has since been fighting back, has filed an amended complaint against the RIAA. This case is getting more interesting as it continues. [...]

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Comcast To Stop Targeting BitTorrent

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Seems it wasn’t all that long ago when Comcast was caught deliberately spoofing reset signals to both clients and servers in the BitTorrent network, thus stopping transfers in progress.
Then there was a lot of noise made about it and unless I’m seriously mistaken, the folks over at BitTorrent started working on [...]

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Guess What I Stumbled Into This time

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I stopped by my stumbleupon profile a while ago and I saw something I actually didn’t expect… Spam. It wasn’t even the kind of thing that you could say actually could be legitimate, like a website with tempting offers from an online car insurance company or a super cheap printer [...]

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Big ‘RFID-Everywhere’ Brother Wants To Watch YOU

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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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Hackers Turn Tables On RIAA

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This is hilarious. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), an organization that has become infamous for suing grandmothers and seven year old kids in their insane quest to control all music downloads and file sharing, was attacked Sunday by hackers that took advantage of an SQL vulnerability and apparently [...]

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North Dakota Judge Makes Big Mistake

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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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FCC Opening Proceeding Comcast blocking P2P

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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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Open Home Network?

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I just saw an article by Bruce Schneier on wired.com talking about Wi-Fi security. He’s advocating the idea of more people allowing their home LAN’s to be open to anyone within Wi-Fi range that can connect to the system. His basic argument is that a spammer or somebody is [...]

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Exchangemymail.com

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Any business environment these days needs email services in order to function at all. One solution that many use is a hosted exchange solution. It’s a service that allows people to do a lot with their email and messaging. Such as synchronizing email, blackberry and windows based smartphones.
Exchangemymail.com [...]

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Why Buy New

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I guess most IT people know that Cisco is one of the leading suppliers of networking equipment such as Routers, Switches and security related stuff like hardware firewalls and intrusion detection gear. Well, it looks like it’s getting easier to get Cisco products. Today I saw a site, Network [...]

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