Europoltsat.pdf (application/pdf Object) US Appeals Court Rules Computer Code Is Not ‘Property’ And Can’t Be Stolen. Sergey Aleynikov, an ex-Goldman-Sachs programmer, spent a year in prison for downloading source code of the firm’s high-speed trading software before his sentence was overturned in February.
Today the court explained why — downloading computer code doesn’t constitute stealing under the US National Stolen Property Act. The 2nd Circuit Appeals Court ruled that since computer code cannot be physically obtained, it doesn’t fit the legal description of a stolen good. Kim Dotcom: US Military Had 15,634 Megaupload Accounts. Major ISPs agree to "six strikes" copyright enforcement plan.
American Internet users, get ready for three strikes "six strikes.
" All US police to get access to international travel records? This just in from the “All international travelers are suspected terrorists” department: In response to questions (see the video at approx. 37:00-38:30) from members of a House Homeland Security subcommittee during a hearing yesterday, DHS Deputy Counter-Terrorism Coordinator John Cohen said that, as part of the Orwellianly-named “Secure Communities” program, local police will soon be receiving the result of a check of DHS international travel logs, automatically, for every person arrested anywhere in the US for even a minor offense.
Local police will be able to run checks of travel records for “nonoffenders” — innocent people — as well. According to one report: USA now BLOCKING video material advocating treason or insurrection from entering country!?! via reddit.com. Panopticon: Government And Privacy In The New Millenium. Government And Privacy In The New Millenium January 2003 Panopticon: a word from the early 18th century.
An idea from the mind of Jeremy Bentham, English civic philosopher and designer of prisons. An idea that has become central to American life in the 21st Century. Mega Indictment. After Historic Protest, Members of Congress Abandon PIPA and SOPA in Droves. Yesterday, in the largest online protest in Internet history, more than 115,000 websites altered millions of web pages to stand in opposition to SOPA and PIPA, the Internet blacklist bills.
Some sites — Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, Craigslist and others — completely shut down for the day, replacing their sites with material to educate the public about the bill’s dangers. Others, like Google and Mozilla, sent users to a petition or action center to express their concerns to Congress. While the final results are still being tabulated, EFF alone helped users send over 1,000,000 emails to Congress, and countless more came from other organizations.
Web traffic briefly brought down the Senate website. 162 million people visited Wikipedia and eight million looked up their representatives’ phone numbers. Google received over 7 million signatures on their petition. And members of Congress were quick to react. Democratic Senators also voiced their opposition to PIPA. The Author of SOPA Is a Copyright Violator. US Congressman and poor-toupee-color-chooser Lamar Smith is the guy who authored the Stop Online Piracy Act.
SOPA, as I'm sure you know, is the shady bill that will introduce way harsher penalties for companies and individuals caught violating copyright laws online (including making the unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a crime which you could actually go to jail for). If the bill passes, it will destroy the internet and, ultimately, turn the world into Mad Max (for more info, go here). I decided to check that everything on Lamar's official campaign website was copyright-cleared and on the level. Protect IP Act Senate whip count - OpenCongress Wiki. Fuck FBI Friday III: ManTech. Guess Which Gov Agency Edits the Most Wiki Pages. MMI Research Ltd v Cellxion Ltd & Ors [2009] EWHC 418 (Pat) (11 March 2009) Young Turks: Reddit is the Internet’s new activist hotbed. By Stephen C.
WebsterSaturday, December 31, 2011 11:51 EDT. The Repression Strengthened Us! EPIC Sues DHS Over Covert Surveillance of Facebook and Twitter. Stuxnet weapon has at least 4 cousins: researchers. Are You Being Tracked? 8 Ways Your Privacy Is Being Eroded Online and Off. December 28, 2011 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Why Twitter Was the Only Company to Challenge the Secret WikiLeaks Subpoena. Alexander Macgillivray" />Secret subpoenas* information requests of the kind the Department of Justice sent Twitter are apparently not unusual.
In fact, other tech companies may also have received similar WikiLeaks-related requests. Submission for Review and Comment: “The Menlo Report: Ethical Principles Guiding Information and Communication Technology Research” (“Menlo Report”) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology, Cyber Security D. Persona management system for communications.
Abstract: A system to apply persona styles to written communications.
The system includes a communication analyzer and a modification engine coupled to the communication analyzer. The communication analyzer identifies an element of original content of a written communication and determines that the element of the original content of the written communication is incompatible with a selected persona style. The selected persona style defines a communication style. Complete Inspire Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) Magazine. The following document is reportedly the full and “uncorrupted” version of the Inspire Magazine said to be produced by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. A previous version of the magazine was incomplete and contained 64 pages of ASCII cupcake recipe fragments. Libraries News » Blog Archive » Changing Access to JSTOR. New Zealands Three Strikes Law was Pushed, Bought and Paid for by the US - Wikileaks. Who are the hunger strikers? How prisoners land in Pelican Bay’s SHU. By Jean Casella and James Ridgeway An aerial view of Pelican Bay State Prison – Photo: California Department of Corrections.
Schlag gegen Anonymous: FBI nimmt 14 mutmaßliche Hacker fest - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Politik. Washington - Die Ermittler schlugen gleich in mehreren Teilen des Landes zu: Die US-Bundespolizei FBI hat nach Angaben des Justizministeriums bei insgesamt 35 Razzien 14 mutmaßliche Mitglieder der Hackergruppe Anonymous festgenommen. Die Frauen und Männer im Alter von 20 bis 42 Jahren wurden demnach in Alabama, Arizona, Kalifornien, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio und im District of Columbia verhaftet. If an Agent Knocks: Federal Investigators and Your Rights. Love Lulz & Cyanide. Pentagon Set To Track Social Media. Behind the CIA's Secret Somalia Operations. Police to begin iPhone iris scans amid privacy concerns. Re: Endgames / HB Gary Federal - Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:41:45 -0600.
Cyber Weapons: The New Arms Race.