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08:48AM Thursday Nov 05 2009 by Revcb
tags: broadbandbits
• E.U. Leaders Bolster Internet Access Protections [nytimes.com]
• Google Dashboard Lists Account Info to Calm Privacy Critics [eweek.com]
• JBB Research expects mobile web revenue to reach $23.6 billion by 2013 [muniwireless.com]
• Pirate Bay shutdown could be inspiring online militancy [v3.co.uk]
• Industry Self-Regulation Of Online Privacy Has Failed: CDD [multichannel.com]
• Tech titans meet in secret to plug SSL hole [theregister.co.uk]
• Are smart meters “thieves”? [muniwireless.com]

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cpsycho @ 5th Nov 09:23AM:
Pirate Bay shutdown could be inspiring online militancy

I guess when governments and Media whores try and step into the the backyard of the techies and take a crap on the lawn. Those techies will only stand idle for so long before getting out the shotgun.
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swhx7 @ 5th Nov 10:20AM:
Some obvious questions

Re: "Industry Self-Regulation Of Online Privacy Has Failed":

Well, yes, of course data-miners will never show any respect for privacy unless forced to. But wait, "Center for Digital Democracy" and "U.S. PIRG" ("Public Interest Research Group") recommend "a legislative ban on collecting from or targeting information to anyone under 18, a do-not-track list similar to the do-not-call list for telemarketers...".

So, how do you tell who is what age online, or who has or has not signed up for the list? With cookies? Identifying people by IP address? Wouldn't these rules themselves require even worse privacy invasions in order to be implemented?

Re: "E.U. Leaders Bolster Internet Access Protections"

So there has to be a fair hearing before someone is kicked off the internet. So far so good. But wait, what if little Johnny on the parents' connection, or Roommate 1 on the shared flat's connection is banned for copyright infringement. Now what happens to the parents or Roommate 2?
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bakedbean @ 5th Nov 11:32AM:
Pirate Bay is not shutdown

What a strange headline to have on an article, when in fact it has not been shutdown.
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TKJunkMail @ 5th Nov 12:55PM:
RE:Google Dashboard Lists Account Info to Calm Privacy Criti

I checked this out and it is an easier way to manage your privacy settings for the most used Google Apps all in one place. »googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/···now.html

They also have placed links on some of these apps account info to the Dashboard.
»https://www.google.com/dashboard

It helped me tighten up privacy settings on some rarely used Google Apps and delete some old data & docs laying around in Google databases.
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chronoss2009 @ 6th Nov 12:04AM:
Re: Pirate Bay shutdown could be inspiring online militancy

cause pirates are terrorists GO INVADE THERE COUNTRY NOW WITH DMCA LAWS and life inprison terms for just thinking about pirating QUICK HURRY
time is running out and we have to get allthe piratists AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH
NOOOOOO
johnnny gotz a tune AHAHAHAHAHA

and il tell you htis its the opposite the botnet owner is MORE LIKELY to rent or sell off the botnet if your intent is to wack the feds of course he wont want it back and as you and i all know he can just make more .....or hack YOUR BOTNet and take them.

so little you all know of botnets haha
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