Dotcom 'not flight risk', gets bail. Megaupload millionaire Kim Dotcom is "very relieved'' to be released on bail so he can be reunited with his family, his lawyer says. Dotcom was granted bail today after a judge in North Sore District Court decided he was not enough of a flight risk to keep in custody. The website's founder and three of his associates appeared in court this morning. Police raided Dotcom's $30 million rented mansion at Coatesville at dawn on January 20 at the request of US authorities. Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann, Bran van der Kolk and Finn Batato are accused of internet piracy. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking to extradite them to the United States to face charges of conspiring to commit racketeering, conspiring to commit money laundering, copyright infringement, and aiding and abetting copyright infringement over the internet through the website Megaupload. Additional charges of criminal copyright infringement and wire fraud have also since been filed by US authorities.
Robert McDowell: The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom. On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year's end. As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said last June, his goal and that of his allies is to establish "international control over the Internet" through the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a treaty-based organization under U.N. auspices. If successful, these new regulatory proposals would upend the Internet's flourishing regime, which has been in place since 1988.
That year, delegates from 114 countries gathered in Australia to agree to a treaty that set the stage for dramatic liberalization of international telecommunications. This insulated the Internet from economic and technical regulation and quickly became the greatest deregulatory success story of all time. Google spies on Apple users. Is cyberwar hype fuelling a cybersecurity-industrial complex? We, the Web Kids. PASTEBIN | #1 paste tool since 2002 create new paste trending pastes Pastebin is 300% more awesome when you are logged in. Sign Up, it's FREE! Public Pastes Logs25 sec agoSCIP CHAPTER STRAT...16 sec agoUntitled9 sec agoUntitled10 sec agoError Log report10 sec agoUntitled13 sec agoUntitledJavaScript | 15 sec agoUntitled18 sec ago We, the Web Kids By: czerski on Feb 15th, 2012 | syntax: None | size: 10.85 KB | hits: 57,189 | expires: Never download | raw | embed | report abuse | print Text below is selected.
Piotr CzerskiWe, the Web Kids. create a new version of this paste RAW Paste Data Piotr Czerski We, the Web Kids. NATO signs contract for Cyber Defence, 08-Mar.-2012. 08 Mar. 2012 The NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) celebrated with a ceremony on 8 March 2012 the award of a contract for upgrading the NATO cyber defence capabilities.
The award to private industrial companies will enable the already operating NATO Computer Incident Response Capability (NCIRC) to achieve full operational capability by the end of 2012. In addition to protecting the Alliance’s own networks, the capabilities to be acquired through the new contract will strengthen NATO’s ability to support member states in dealing with cyber attacks by using improved information-sharing and rapid reaction teams, whenever requested. “The project is a direct result of NATO nations’ commitment to improve capabilities to detect, defend and recover in case of a cyber attack against systems of critical importance to the Alliance. At approximately 58 million Euro in total, the award represents NATO’s largest investment to date in cyber defence.