Senator Joe Lieberman Asks Google for a Terrorist Flagging Button on Blogger November 26th, 2011 lol Via: The Verge: Well, Joe’s at it again, and this time, it really is as embarrassing as it sounds. The Senator has taken pen to paper and written a letter to Google asking that its blogging platform Blogger [...]
Alleged Cyber Attack on U.S. Water Plant is Propaganda to Curb Internet Freedom November 20, 2011 Print Version By Eric Blair Activist Post The Washington Post is reporting that recent damage to an Illinois water treatment plant was a cyber attack by foreign hackers, “Foreign hackers caused a pump at an Illinois water plant to fail [...]
Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets September 25th, 2011 This is great, but don’t forget the context: U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors The Sock Puppet Industrial Complex: U.S. Trains ‘Activists’ to Evade Security Forces Think outside the box, by [...]
U.S. Government Starts New Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures Share | May 22, 2011 Print Version Source: TorrentFreak US authorities have resumed ‘Operation In Our Sites’ and have seized several domain names associated with copyright infringement or counterfeit related crimes. Among the new targets are two sites that linked to copyrighted films hosted on [...]
New Defense Bill Authorizes US Government To Launch “Defensive” Cyber Attacks Share | May 11, 2011 Print Version Suzanne Kubota – Federal News Radio Within the chairman’s mark of the 2012 Defense Authorization bill is language that would allow DoD to carry out clandestine operations in cyberspace against targets located outside the United States [...]
DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS ON THE RISE May 2, 2011 * Hmmmm…. is America trying to hide something from you? * Is it just a coincidence that both What Really Happened, War On You and Uruknet cannot be accessed by your computer? * OR…. is it a Denial of Service Attack (DOS) to keep you from [...]
FBI Hijacks ‘Coreflood’ Botnet April 17th, 2011 Alternate headline: FBI Obtains Distributed Denial of Service Capability for Free. Interestingly, in other recent news, the government is stepping up propaganda efforts on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace scheme, which is ‘voluntary‘, of course… Translation: They want you to use NSTIC. They want [...]
New Zealand: Controversial Internet Piracy Bill Becomes Law April 14th, 2011 If at first you don’t succeed, try again under urgency. Via: Stuff: A bill that could see internet users have their access cut off if they repeatedly share copyright material has been passed by Parliament. The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill, which [...]
Police to get major new powers to seize domains (UK) Editor’s Note: Once again we see a coordinated effort of similar policies and legislation being implemented simultaneously in different countries, as the system inches toward a standardized code of behavior (ACTA) to be decided by a global governing bureaucracy. Police could soon have the power [...]
$335,906 Is The Price Of The Constitution Published on 11-24-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Eurasia Review When Senators give speeches, they will say that you can’t put a price on freedom. But as it turns out you can. You can actually put an exact dollar amount on the Constitution. And that amount [...]
The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet from the free-speech-isn’t-free dept This is hardly a surprise but, this morning (as previously announced), the lame duck Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to move forward with censoring the internet via the COICA bill — despite a bunch of law professors explaining to them how this [...]
End of Free Internet: US Senate Committee Approves Internet “Blacklist” Bill Published on 11-18-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Activist Post It seems the lame duck Congressional session is becoming anything but unproductive. Yesterday, we saw the cloture of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510), and today the Combating Online Infringement and [...]
Will the Justice Department Be Authorized to Shut Down Internet Sites? by Rich Muny September 30, 2010 On September 20th, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced legislation — S. 3804, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act — that seeks to give the Department of Justice the power to shut down websites anywhere [...]
Age of Censorship and Internet Trade Wars Published on 09-28-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | By Francis Anthony Govia – Activist Post New U.S. legislation will impact every user of the Internet. The “Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act” would empower the U.S. Department of Justice to shut down, or block access to, websites [...]
September 27th, 2010 Wikipedia has an entry on key escrow, if you aren’t familiar with the concept. Via: New York Times: Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate [...]
