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Senator Schumer Says Websites Should Default To HTTPS

There are plenty of websites where it absolutely makes sense for the default to be https, rather than http as the protocol (if you don’t know — and you should — https encrypts the traffic, while http does not). Most banks and such already use https,… Continue reading

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Programmer Faces 15 Years In Jail For Planting Virus That Automatically Broke Whac-A-Mole Games

Slashdot points us to a fascinating story of a programmer named Marvin Wimberly, who is facing charges for sabotaging the famous Whac-A-Mole games with a logic bomb that would “break” the machines after a pre-determined number of times that it was turn… Continue reading

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DailyDirt: Biofuels From Tiny Organisms

Fossil fuels presumably came from decaying animal and plant matter, so it seems reasonable that there might be a way to replace old oils with freshly-grown biofuels. The trick is getting biological organisms to step up and start churning out fuels on … Continue reading

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Google Declares War On Content Farms, What’s Demand Media To Do?

Today we have a guest post from Chas Edwards, Chief Revenue Officer at Pixazza, who’s been thinking quite a lot about various content-related business models lately, and wrote the following in response to the recent news of Google’s algorithm change

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Senator Wyden Demands Debate Over Patriot Act

It’s feeling like we should have a weekly section for “kudos to Senator Ron Wyden.” Each week he seems to be the only major elected public official who seems to actually be fighting for the people, rather than for greater power for corporations and go… Continue reading

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Mediacom Puts Its Own Ads On Other Websites, Including Google & Apple

A few years ago, there were stories of ISPs who wanted to use deep packet inspection technology to inject their own content, especially advertising, onto websistes. AT&T even insisted that customers would like it if AT&T did this. Public ou… Continue reading

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ICE Boss: It’s Okay To Ignore The Constitution If It’s To Protect Companies

While the folks at Homeland Security keep telling me that they simply cannot speak publicly about the seizure of various domain names — and specifically the numerous mistakes they’ve made that appear to clearly violate both the First Amendment and Due… Continue reading

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Feds Got Reporter’s Phone, Credit Card & Bank Records In Trying To Track Leaker

Back in January, when I saw Daniel Ellsberg speak, one of the things he noted was how much more aggressive the Obama administration appeared to be in going after leakers than any previous administration. Ellsberg’s theory — which he admitted was base… Continue reading

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Microsoft launching cloud-based Intune in March

Designed to help businesses manage and secure their PCs via the cloud, Intune will debut on March 23 to paying customers and those who want to check out the free 30-day trial. Originally posted at News – Microsoft

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Army Propaganda Unit Ordered To Illegally Target US Senators With Psy-Ops Propaganda

Last week, Rolling Stone broke the news that the US Army’s team of psy-ops (psychological operations) specialists in Afghanistan were ordered to target their efforts towards visiting US officials rather than Afghanis. This is highly illegal. US law s… Continue reading

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