News All the state’s spies
04-25-2012
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Salon
Congress is seriously considering a bill called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Intended to allow information sharing both between corporations and between corporations and the government
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News CISPA cybersecurity bill gets veto threat from Obama
04-25-2012
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Washington Post
The White House threatened to veto cyber-legislation that is widely expected to pass the House, asserting the bill would put Americans’ privacy at risk and give a pass to companies that fail to secure their computer networks.
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News CISPA Amendment Allows DHS to Intercept Tax Returns
04-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Perennial big government advocate Sheila Jackson Lee strikes again
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News See ya later, Santorum! Mitt Romney has his own war on porn
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
Rick Santorum's withdrawal from the race for the Republican Party's nomination for president spawned a sigh of relief that echoed from the Hollywood Hills and into every wood-paneled parents' basement in America.
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News Hypocrisy, USA: Obama will sanction countries that block Internet for protesters
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
United States President Barack Obama announced plans on Monday to impose sanctions on foreign governments that use modern technology to tackle anti-government protesters.
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News The journalist: Homeland Security's top terrorist?
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
If you want to know what the US Department of Homeland Security has been working hard at lately, leave it to a multimedia journalist from Miami, Florida to lay it out for you: they’ve been busy on Facebook.
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News "We Don’t Live in a Free Country":
04-24-2012
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http://www.democracynow.org
We speak with Jacob Appelbaum, a computer researcher who has faced a stream of interrogations and electronic surveillance since he volunteered with the whistleblowing website, WikiLeaks.
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News Assange Episode 2: Left & right in 21st century
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
Ready for another surprise from Assange? The second episode of The World Tomorrow has it all. This time Assange has two guests with two opposite points of view ready to lock in a fight over some of the hottest issues.
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News CIA site downed as Anonymous claims attack
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
The CIA website is now back online following a DDoS attack reportedly perpetrated by the hacktivist group Anonymous.
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News Ron Paul Slams Internet Control Bill CISPA
04-23-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
“Big Brother writ” will allow feds to use corporate resources for “spying on the American people”
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News 'Ctrl+C me, my brothers' - Piracy preachers paste themselves in US
04-23-2012
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http://rt.com
A Sweden-born “online piracy religion” is seeking official recognition in the United States. “Kopimists” preach that any act of copying information is sacred and cannot be limited by any human law.
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News FBI: Hundreds Of Thousands May Lose Internet In July
04-22-2012
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com
For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer.
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News Tethr: Getting online in a crisis
04-19-2012
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BBC Clark Boyd
Aaron Huslage with a laugh. He's explaining to me how, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, he came up with the idea for tethr, a shoebox-sized set of hardware designed to help anyone get internet and phone connections from any spot on the
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Howard Pearlman
News EU may reject ACTA
04-18-2012
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http://rt.com
The controversial pan-global anti-piracy agreement, ACTA, may soon be dead in the water.
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News House Intel Chair: Google Secretly Backs CISPA
04-18-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Google Declines Official Comment on Controversial Bill
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News Several nations trying to penetrate U.S. cyber-networks, says ex-FBI official
04-17-2012
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Washington Post
At least half a dozen countries with offensive cyber-capabilities are probing U.S. corporate and military computer systems, looking for data and a toehold should they one day want to disrupt or destroy the networks, according to the FBI’s former top
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News US-supported Terrorist Group MEK Plants Stuxnet Virus Malware to Disable Iran's Nuclear Faciliti
04-17-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Nile Bowie
The international community has eased its condemnation of Iran following recent negotiations between Tehran and six other nations in Istanbul, Turkey.
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News This Is Why Google Is Absolutely Terrified Of Facebook
04-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Dan Frommer
Google is still the biggest, baddest online advertising company on the planet. Its $2.9 billion profit last quarter, announced yesterday, was almost as much as Facebook's revenue for all of 2011.
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News Nervous Kremlin seeks to purge Russia's internet of 'western' influences
04-16-2012
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The Guardian
Unlike Vladimir Putin, many Russians have taken to the internet with great enthusiasm. Now liberals and gay rights activists are among those feeling the heat from the Kremlin
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News Blogger faces jail for calling Councillor a "crap" on Twitter
04-16-2012
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Daily Mail
A blogger who called a local politician a 'c***' on Twitter sparked a row over freedom of speech after being convicted of sending the offensive remark.
Olly Cromwell, faces jail after Councillor Melvyn Seymour complained.
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News Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin
04-16-2012
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The Guardian
Brin warned there were "very powerful forces that have lined up against the open internet on all sides and around the world". "I am more worried than I have been in the past," he said. "It's scary."
The threat to the freedom of the internet comes,
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News Activists plan week of protests against new House cybersecurity legislation
04-16-2012
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http://thehill.com, By Brendan Sasso
In an attempt to re-create the backlash that killed anti-piracy legislation earlier this year, activists are planning a "week of action" beginning on Monday to protest the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
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News China’s mysterious Internet outage; speculation over a ‘kill switch’
04-16-2012
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http://www.zdnet.com, By Hana Stewart-Smith
Temporary blackouts leave China’s Internet users unable to access many Chinese Web sites as well as other unblocked foreign sites.
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News Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin
04-16-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Ian Katz
Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style 'walled gardens'
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News Facebook's Telescope on Human Behavior
04-14-2012
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technologyreview.com, By Tom Simonite
The leader of the social network's efforts to mine its piles of data says the effort can help explain why people act as they do.
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News First Newspapers, Now TV – the Internet Reformation Rolls On
04-12-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Citibank Says It's 'Flummoxed' By Ratings Collapse In Cable TV
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News Here's Everything You Need To Know To Use The New Google+
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Natt Garun
Google+ got a massive user interface makeover today, making it look more like a social network rather than just a scattered stream of conscious
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News This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.
04-12-2012
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CNET News
Step aside, AT&T and Verizon. A new privacy-protecting Internet service and telephone provider still in the planning stages could become the ACLU's dream and the FBI's worst nightmare.
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News The Internet Is About To Burst The Most Hated Bubble In America
04-10-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
It looks like one of the most nefarious bubbles in the country could soon collapse.
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Headlines: The Internet Is About To Burst The Most Hated Bubble In America -- This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always. -- Here's Everything You Need To Know To Use The New Google+
-- First Newspapers, Now TV – the Internet Reformation Rolls On -- Facebook's Telescope on Human Behavior -- Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin -- China’s mysterious Internet outage; speculation over a ‘kill switch’ -- Activists plan week of protests against new House cybersecurity legislation -- Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin -- Blogger faces jail for calling Councillor a "crap" on Twitter -- Nervous Kremlin seeks to purge Russia's internet of 'western' influences -- This Is Why Google Is Absolutely Terrified Of Facebook -- US-supported Terrorist Group MEK Plants Stuxnet Virus Malware to Disable Iran's Nuclear Faciliti -- Several nations trying to penetrate U.S. cyber-networks, says ex-FBI official -- House Intel Chair: Google Secretly Backs CISPA
-- EU may reject ACTA -- Tethr: Getting online in a crisis -- FBI: Hundreds Of Thousands May Lose Internet In July -- 'Ctrl+C me, my brothers' - Piracy preachers paste themselves in US -- Ron Paul Slams Internet Control Bill CISPA -- CIA site downed as Anonymous claims attack -- Manhattan judge denies motion to stop Twitter subpoena -- Assange Episode 2: Left & right in 21st century -- "We Don’t Live in a Free Country": -- The journalist: Homeland Security's top terrorist? -- Hypocrisy, USA: Obama will sanction countries that block Internet for protesters -- See ya later, Santorum! Mitt Romney has his own war on porn -- CISPA Amendment Allows DHS to Intercept Tax Returns -- CISPA cybersecurity bill gets veto threat from Obama -- All the state’s spies --