11 Dumb Moves That Should Have Cost Mark Zuckerberg His $25 Billion Fortune
• www.businessinsider.comWhen Facebook shares begin public trading in May, Mark Zuckerberg will be worth ~$25 billion.
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JACK WELCH: Facebook Is Going To Have 'A Hell Of A Time' Dealing With Millionaire Employees
• www.businessinsider.comFormer GE CEO Jack Welch told Reuters that Facebook is going to struggle after its IPO dealing with employees who suddenly "have" millions of dollars in their bank accounts versus those who "have not."
FBI's Megaupload bust 'has done little to reduce internet piracy'
• www.dailymail.co.ukThe FBI's recent seizure of Megaupload.com and its arrest of founder Kim Dotcom has done little to reduce piracy, says a web-traffic analyst.
From Russia With Tech Support: Open Source NGINX Remakes Web Servers
• www.wired.comThe second most popular web server on the planet no longer comes from Microsoft. It comes from NGINX. And now, the tiny Russian outfit wants to actually make some money from its widely popular open source server software.
Google to pay users to browse - so the search giant can watch every link they click
• www.dailymail.co.ukGoogle is to pay computer users to browse the web so the search giant watches every link they click.
Brazil files injunction against Twitter
• Associated PressA request for an injunction to stop Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on its plan to censor content at governments' requests.
Internet pirates winning the war on SOPA with Tribler
• RT.comThe never-ending war between copyright holders and online pirates just entered a new phase. However, this time hackers are armed with the ultimate weapon that may grant them victory. The new software called “Tribler” is the new weapon in the battle
Trendnet security cam flaw exposes video feeds on net.
• BBC and othersFeeds from thousands of Trendnet home security cameras have been breached, allowing any web user to access live footage without needing a password. Users have expressed concern after finding others could view children's bedrooms, among other location
Act Up Against ACTA
Stephen LendmanACTA will destroy Internet freedom as we know it
Hacked emails allege Russian youth group Nashi paying bloggers
• www.guardian.co.ukPro-Kremlin organisation reportedly pays hundreds of thousands of pounds to network of internet users to help political cause
Viral photo of abusive Israeli soldier called a fake
• Los Angeles TimesA controversial photograph that has been circulating on the Web in recent weeks is challenging such pre-Internet truisms as "seeing is believing" or "sharing is everything."
Justice Dept, FBI Say Interest in Online Privacy an ‘Indicator’ of Terrorism
• AntiWarA new flyer released by the Department of Justice and the FBI, emblazoned with the logos of each agency and being circulated to Internet cafes and other businesses, warns of “potential indicators of terrorist activities.”
'Anonymous' hackers intercept conversation between FBI and Scotland Yard...
• www.telegraph.co.uk... on how to deal with hackers - A conference call between Scotland Yard and the FBI has been intercepted and published by a member of the computer hacking group Anonymous.
No Women on Facebook Board Shows White Male Influence
• www.bloomberg.comMost of Facebook Inc. (FB)’s more than 800 million users are women. You wouldn’t know it from looking at the board, whose seven directors are all men.
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Hawaiian Politician Wants To Track Everyone Online Because Someone Doesn't Like Her
• TechDirtAn astoundingly, ridiculously broad data retention bill in Hawaii that would require anyone who provides internet access to keep a detailed dossier on every website everyone who uses their service visits (tied to their name). The bill includes a broa
Politicians Lash Out, Wear Guy Fawkes Masks After EU Signs SOPA's Big Brother
• Maximum PCWith all the headlines about SOPA and PIPA, it's easy to forget that President Obama already signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement way back in October. ACTA bypassed the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization
Megaupload users to sue FBI
• rt.comFirst federal prosecutors said that the file-sharing site Megaupload was responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage to the music and film industry. Users of the now defunct site are making allegations of their own now too — and
ACTA: Worse Than SOPA and PIPA
Stephen LendmanInternet freedom on the line
European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The ‘Masquerade’ Behind ACTA
• www.prisonplanet.comWhile the EU did sign on to ACTA today, it still needs to be ratified by the European Parliament (more on that in a little while). Having Arif quit makes a pretty big statement, and hopefully makes it easier for Parliament Members to speak out loudly
Meet SOPA's evil twin, ACTA
• CNN MoneyThe brouhaha over the American internet piracy bill has died down, giving way to proposed international legislation with many similar elements.
Anonymous briefly deletes CBS.com from the Internet
• www.rawstory.comIn a rampage following the U.S. government’s takedown of file-sharing site MegaUpload, the hacktivist group Anonymous not only knocked the CBS.com website offline on Sunday, but deleted all its files.
Megaupload founder appears in New Zealand court seeking bail
• www.cnn.comThe founder of the shuttered file-sharing site Megaupload appeared in a New Zealand court Monday, as the U.S. Department of Justice seeks to extradite him and other company officials on criminal charges.
In 2006, Gingrich backed censoring the web
• www.politico.comAt Thursday night's debate in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich painted himself as a friend of a free and open Internet, but in the past he's talked up pretty radical proposals to curtail free speech online.
A SOPA/PIPA Blackout Explainer
• David Kravets via WIRED.comHundreds, if not thousands, of websites are expected to go dark or alter themselves Wednesday to protest proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation that many believe goes too far fighting online copyright and trademark infringement.
SOPA and PIPA Part of Effort to Domesticate Politically Incorrect Internet
• www.prisonplanet.comThe Megaupload takedown is dominating headlines, but there is something the incident has overshadowed – large internet corporations and government have censored political websites for years as part of a plan to domesticate the internet.
The Great Internet Wars Have Begun
• www.prisonplanet.comIn the video below, we note that the massive protest this week against SOPA and PIPA should not merely be about government and corporate curtailment of freedom of expression on the internet.
Victory on SOPA: Lessons Learned
• www.lewrockwell.com/Gary NorthThe owners of a handful of popular Internet sites joined together to protest SOPA/PIPA. They blacked out their sites and provided information on the threat to Internet liberty this bill posed.
Defending the Last Free Place on Earth
• www.lewrockwell.com/Jeff BerwickSites like Reddit, Wikipedia and thousands of others went dark in protest of the latest attempt at a violent terrorist attack on the internet, the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Megaupload site wants assets back, to fight charges
• economictimes.indiatimes.comThe Internet website Megaupload.com, shut down by US authorities over allegations that it illegally peddled copyrighted material, is trying to recover its servers and get back online, a lawyer for the company said on Friday.
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