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Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun

In late 2012 the 3D blueprint website Thingiverse decided to ban 3D gun designs, citing their terms of service which clearly prohibit files used to make weapons. Enter DEFCAD, a site dedicated to hosting...

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Friday, May 10th, 2013 Net News No Comments

NY Post Pisses Its Pants Over Terrorism Homework; And You Should Too

What if Al Qaeda found this? Credit: The Justified Sinner/Flickr The New York Post is quivering in fear and outrage over a graduate level course for intelligence analysts that requires students to write a...

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Monday, October 29th, 2012 Net News No Comments

File-Sharing And Online Streaming On the Rise Again, Report Shows

A research released by Palo Alto Networks – a network security firm – confirms that both peer-to-peer file-sharing and online streaming is rapidly growing compared to data from previous years. The semi-annual report...

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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 Net News No Comments

Feds Considering Allowing DVD-Encryption Cracking

Photo: ToastyKen/Flickr LOS ANGELES — Federal regulators considered testimony Wednesday here at UCLA on whether to allow citizens and filmmakers to legally crack DVD encryption meant to protect them from being copied. Filmmakers,...

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Friday, May 18th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Google may face massive fine from FTC for bypassing Safari privacy controls

Google is said to be in the process of negotiating a fine with the Federal Trade Commission for circumventing Safari's privacy settings, according to Bloomberg . Citing an unnamed "person familiar with the...

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Friday, May 4th, 2012 Net News No Comments