Google is a notorious data collector — so you’re really paying for its “free” services with your privacy. But now the Chinese want a piece of the action too…
An insider perspective from an employee’s point of view…
To hetero-folks, a bathhouse, at least the gay ones, stand as sketchy monuments to random sex with strangers. And in all honesty, they’re not that wrong.
Driven by nothing more than old men and their perennial Masters-of-the-Universe hard-on, Monsanto heads the list of the world’s most hated corporations.
Well, it’s happened. Again. “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life” – (Oscar Wilde, who held in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying) – there is now a MOVIE about the world’s number one MOVIE PIRATING website, ThePirateBay.se
Are the hackers winning the battle to keep technology and the Internet free? What compels some people to spend a lot of time and energy on setting up servers, creating programs and even committing crimes to help people in a dictatorship in another country to communicate freely? Read the rest of this entry »
As has been reported, it looks like ICE, which is the principal investigative arm of DHS, has begun seizing domains under the pretext of IP infringement. But it’s actually not ICE who is executing the mechanics of the seizures. It’s a private company, immixGroup IT Solutions. Here is what is going down.
In May of this year, immixGroup IT Solutions is awarded a one year IT Services contract with DHS. The particulars of this contract:
Under this new contract, immixGroup will provide information technology operational services and support, implementation, and maintenance of DHS ICE C3’s software applications, network and CyberSecurity systems, as well as the maintenance and enhancement of applications that support law enforcement activities.
The contract includes one base year, one 12-month option period, and two six-month option periods; covers all four divisions of C3 (Child Exploitation, Cyber Crimes, Computer Forensics, and Cyber Training); and is critical…
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012.
Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”.
He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only among the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture. Read the rest of this entry »
A dedicated Teamsters union worker was attending a convention in Las Vegas and decided to check out the local brothels. When he got to the first one, he asked the Madam, ‘Is this a union house?’Read the rest of this entry »
In 2010, the U.S. government shut down more than 70 websites, in one the broadest actions yet against companies it only suspects of selling America’s counterfeit or pirated products.
If you don't think the Amerikin Gov't twisted Sweden's arm in order to "stop" Julian Assange, pleaze leave this blog now. You're too stupid to stay 🙂 PS: do NOT zoom the phreaky photo!!
As U.S. officials brace for a further mass disclosure of leaked Iraq war files by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, the Swedish government said it denied a work and residency permit to founder Julian Assange. He has been establishing a base in Sweden in order to benefit from the Nordic country’s strict journalist protection laws.
Assange, an Australian citizen, is also being investigated over rape allegations in Sweden, which he has denied, calling them baseless. Read the rest of this entry »
A map of internet traffic produced by the Opte Project
A Neutral Internet can give back the power and the freedom to the people. We are not talking just about the obvious increase of innovation, new works, generating money, etc… Read the rest of this entry »
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-- C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]
from The Screwtape Letters
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