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Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments - Slashdot Posted by timothy from the well-we-know-att-does dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Canada celebrated New Year's Day this year by welcoming the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Carl Jung into the public domain just as European countries were celebrating the arrival of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, 20 years after both entered the Canadian public domain. The Canadian government is now considering a plan to enter trade negotiations that would extend the term of copyright by 20 years, meaning nothing new would enter the public domain in Canada until at least 2032. The government is holding a public consultation with the chance for Canadians to speak out to save the public domain ." Canadian Gov't Considers Plan To Block Public Domain - Slashdot

Posted by timothy from the inigo-montoya-on-high-alert dept. US Threatens Spain For Not Implementing SOPA-Like Law - Slashdot

Cyber Insurance Industry Expected To Boom - Slashdot An anonymous reader writes "The high profile hacks to Sony's systems this year were quite costly — Sony estimated losses at around $200 million. Their insurance company was quick to point out that they don't own a cyber insurance policy, so the losses won't be mitigated at all. Because of that and all the other notable hacking incidents recently, analysts expect the cyber insurance industry to take off in the coming year .

An anonymous reader writes "Law professors Mark Lemley, David S. Levine, and David G. Post have just published a piece on the PROTECT IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act. In Don't Break the Internet , they argue that the two bills — intended to counter online copyright and trademark infringement — 'share an underlying approach and an enforcement philosophy that pose grave constitutional problems and that could have potentially disastrous consequences for the stability and security of the Internet's addressing system, for the principle of interconnectivity that has helped drive the Internet's extraordinary growth, and for free expression.' Law Professors On SOPA and PIPA: Don't Break the Internet - Slashdot

Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? - Slashdot Posted by Soulskill from the skeptical-skylarks-and-bandwagonning-bandicoots dept.

Chinese government defends its Internet policies as open and clear | ITworld Varnish cache server XID: 1558522704 Guru Meditation: Service Unavailable

Posted by timothy from the streamlining-always-looks-cool dept. Australian Gov't To Streamline Anti-Piracy Lawsuit Process - Slashdot

Wikimedia Foundation Enables HTTPS For All Projects - Slashdot An anonymous reader writes "The Wikimedia Foundation has enabled HTTPS for all of its projects (Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, etc.), to enable secure log-in and browsing privacy. Their blog post goes into detail about how the service is configured, linking to configuration files and implementation documentation. It also mentions that HTTPS Everywhere will have updated rules for this change soon."

Obama Administration Wants Your Old Email - Slashdot Nemesisghost wrote to us with a story about attempts to reform the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Under the act, messages left on a server are considered abandoned after six months and are trivially subpoenaed by law enforcement. A group of ISPs is lobbying to extend the protections afforded to locally stored messages to messages stored on third party servers, but the Obama administration is urging Congress not to reform the law .

airfoobar submitted an editorial by Bernt Hugenholtz. From the article "Bad news from Denmark. According to an official press release , the Danish government has changed its position and now endorses the European Commission's proposal to extend the term of protection for sound recordings . Since Denmark was part of a fragile blocking minority in the European Council, there is a danger now that the EU Presidency will try to push through the proposal within a matter of weeks." Denmark Now Supports EU Copyright Term Extension - Slashdot

Verizon Net Neutrality Case Rejected - Slashdot Back in January, we discussed news that Verizon had filed an appeal to the FCC's net neutrality rules, saying the regulatory agency did not have the legal authority to enforce the mandate. Now, reader olsmeister follows up with this quote from PC World: "An appeals court Monday dismissed Verizon's challenge of the US Federal Communications Commission's December net neutrality ruling, calling it premature. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia noted in its decision that the FCC's net neutrality order is a rule-making document subject to judicial review once it is published in the Federal Register.

Internet Groups To Stream Live IPv4/6 Announcement - Slashdot Posted by CmdrTaco from the hey-thats-almost-now dept.

Internet Kill Switch Back On the US Legislative Agenda - Slashdot suraj.sun points out a story at Wired that US lawmakers have revived the idea of a government-controlled " Internet Kill Switch ," which reads, in part: "The bill, which has bipartisan support, is being floated by Sen. Susan Collins, the Republican ranking member on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The proposed legislation, which Collins said would not give the president the same power Egypt's Hosni Mubarak is exercising to quell dissent, sailed through the Homeland Security Committee in December but expired with the new Congress weeks later. 'My legislation would provide a mechanism for the government to work with the private sector in the event of a true cyber emergency,' Collins said in an e-mail Friday. 'It would give our nation the best tools available to swiftly respond to a significant threat.'"

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Pentagon workers tied to child porn - The Boston Globe

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