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Dodgy Android mobile wallpaper app

Adi — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:58:06 +0000

p2pnet view Mobiles :- “Even good apps can be modified to turn bad after a lot of people download it sic. Users absolutely have to pay attention to what they download. And developers have to be responsible about the data that they collect and how they use it.” So John Hering, CEO,and Kevin MaHaffey, CTO of mobile security firm Lookout, told the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.

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Crawler scarfs data from 1 in 5 Facebook users

AgentSmith — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:09:19 +0000

2pnet view P2P | Advertising:- Your personal and private information is rock-solid safe with social advertising site Fa$ebook. Right? Well, um … A 2.8-gig directory holding the personal details of more than one in five Facebook users has surfaced online, says Thinq.co.uk .

Tech News Sites Tout Misleading BitTorrent Piracy Study

Adi — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:38:23 +0000

A new study has been making the rounds, concluding that only 0.3% of all files available on BitTorrent are confirmed to be ‘legal’. The results of the study were promoted by anti-piracy outfit AFACT and have been picked up by several news outlets, including Ars Technica and ZDNet, who all failed to see that the report is bogus. Every so often a new study surfaces that attempts to describe the BitTorrent landscape.

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Canada welcomes Netflix with… lower broadband data caps?

Adi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:35:00 +0000

Happy news for Canadian movie lovers. Netflix has announced that it's setting up a new Internet-only service for the Canadian market. The innovation marks the company's first experiment with solo streaming.

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Spying on Canada’s digital networks

Adi — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:03:50 +0000

Canadian independent record label Ole “put forward an often-heard and much disputed proposal to enhance record label revenues”, writes DPI expert Christopher Parsons (right) on his Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets blog. Ole “wants ISPs to surveil Canada’s digital networks for copywritten works”, he points out, continuing > > > In the record label’s filing on July 12 for the Digital Economy Consultations, entitled “ Building Delivery Systems at the Expense of Content Creators ,” Ole asserts that ISPs are functioning as “short circuits” and let music customers avoid purchasing music on the free market. Rather than go to the market, customers are (behaving as rational economic actors …) instead using ISP networks to download music.

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EU Data Retention Implementation Deemed Unlawful By EU Authorities

Zocor — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:00:18 +0000

Civil rights advocates have achieved a key victory in the fight against the European-wide data retention policy. A short report from EU authorities says, “European Data Protection Authorities find current implementation of data retention directive unlawful” It’s been a while since we’ve heard much about the EU data retention policy. Even the group against data

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U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs

Adi — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:50:48 +0000

After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a wider crackdown. Now it appears that a free blogging platform has been taken down by its hosting provider on orders from the U.S.

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Hackers Announce: We’ve Stolen Pirate Bay’s User Database

Zocor — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:07:50 +0000

It seems that not even pirates are safe from hackers attacks. According to Gigaom , the most popular file sharing site in the world has been the target of three Argentinean programmers who revealed their bravado on the internet – downloading the TPB’s entire user database, including the names, IP addresses and email addresses of 4 million registered users for which the entertainment industry would gladly pay an obscenely large sum of money. The news got spread very quickly as one of the hackers who calls himself Ch Russo posted on his blog not only the ‘event’ but also a video explaining the method used for hacking the site.

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Canada: Yes, same traffic-shaping rules apply to mobile data

Zocor — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:09:32 +0000

If your cable or DSL provider can’t block some low-bandwidth application like VoIP simply because it competes with one of their own offerings, why should mobile operators have the right to do so? In Canada, they no longer do. Last week, Canadian regulators decided that ISPs all have to play by the same traffic management rules, regardless of the technology they use to deliver the bits.

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White Hat Uses Foursquare Privacy Hole to Capture 875K Check-Ins

Zocor — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:08:35 +0000

If you have checked in with Foursquare in San Francisco in the last three weeks, Jesper Andersen probably knows where and when — even if you’ve set your check-ins to be published to friends only. Andersen , a coder who recently built a service called Avoidr that helps you avoid social network “friends” you don’t really like, figured out that Foursquare had a privacy leak because of how it published user check-ins on web pages for each location. On pages like the one for San Francisco’s Ferry Building , Foursquare shows a random grid of 50 pictures of users who most-recently checked in at that location — no matter what their privacy settings.

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EU data-roaming limit for mobiles

Adi — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:35:27 +0000

p2pnet view Mobiles:- From Thursday, July 1 onwards, travellers in the EU won’t have to worry about accidentally running up huge bills when they go online using mobile networks via a phone or computer. On that date, their data-roaming limit will be automatically set at €50 excluding VAT, unless they’ve chosen another limit, higher or lower. “There will be no more bill shocks for tourists or business travellers surfing the internet with smart phones or laptops while in another EU country”, says digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes in a statement , promising, “The EU is also cutting the cost of roaming calls for travellers.” Operators will have to send users a warning when they reach 80% of their data-roaming bill limit”, says the post, going on > > > The operator will have to cut off the mobile internet connection once the limit has been reached, unless the customer has indicated they want to continue data roaming that particular month.

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‘No Evidence’ Anti-Piracy Group Hacked FTP Server

Adi — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:58:00 +0000

The very first court case to test Sweden’s fledgling IPRED anti-piracy legislation has not progressed as smoothly as entertainment companies might have hoped. Soon after IPRED became law in 2009, five book publishers aided by anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrån handed a request to a local court for information on the owner of an FTP-server that allegedly stored more than 2000 audio books, a couple of dozen of which breached their copyrights. There was a problem though.

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Juniper ZIP+4: ‘bad, bad, bad stuff’

Adi — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:01:16 +0000

“This is bad, bad, bad, bad stuff”, says DPI expert Christopher Parsons (right) who, with Colin Bennett, runs deeppacketinspection.ca . He was talking about ZIP+4, highlighted in a warning from Wired . Your ISP already knows where you live, and soon, it’ll “have a way to sell your zip code to advertisers so they can target ads by neighborhood”, says the story, going on: “National advertisers will be able to market directly to neighborhoods with like characteristics across the whole country using demographic data they’ve been gathering for decades.” Think about it.

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‘I Can’t Believe What I’m Confessing to You’: The Wikileaks Chats

AgentSmith — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:01:02 +0000

On May 21, 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning initiated a series of online chats with former hacker Adrian Lamo after a story on Lamo was published at Wired.com. The chats continued over several days, during which Manning claimed that he was responsible for leaking classified material to the whistleblower site Wikileaks. Lamo tipped off the FBI and the Army about Manning’s claims, and on May 26, Manning was seized by Army authorities and put into pre-trial detention in Kuwait.

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Amtrak to take free onboard WiFi nationwide

Zocor — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:12:00 +0000

Amtrak’s Acela Express trains run along the Washington-Boston-New York corridor and offer two things not often seen by US rail passengers: decent speeds and free WiFi. One of those benefits could soon come to every Amtrak train nationwide. Guess which one?

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