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Chinese programmer fingered in Google attacks
A Chinese programmer with ties to the government has been fingered as the author of the program used to carry out the high-profile cyber attacks against Google and other companies earlier this year. According to researchers for the US government speaking anonymously to the Financial Times , a Chinese security consultant had posted code online ahead of the attack, saying that the project was one that he was “working on” and that Chinese government had “special access.” The programmer in question was just a freelancer and was not responsible for carrying out the attacks, claim the researchers who apparently have spoken with the programmer. Apparently, the programmer would prefer his work not be used in such “offensive efforts” as carrying out attacks against major companies, but that he “has to toe the line now and again” if he wants to do the kind of research he’s good at doing.
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Continue reading »University of Ottawa goes Open Access
There is some exciting news at the University of Ottawa as it has become the first major Canadian research university to announce a comprehensive open access strategy . As part of the announcement, the University has joined the Compact for Open Access Publishing . It is the first non-U.S.
Continue reading »DOJ Pays $4M a Year to Read Public Court Documents
The federal court system charged the Department of Justice more than $4 million in 2009 for access to its electronic court filing system, which is composed entirely of documents in the public domain. That’s according to government documents made public through a Freedom of Information Act request by open government advocate Carl Malamud (pictured right) . Malamud sought the information to prove that an open source repository of U.S.
Continue reading »UK ISPs Concerned P2P Crackdown Will “Undermine” Digital Economy
Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK ) Says focus should be on “reform of content licensing to enable legal alternatives at a fair price.” The Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA), the UK’s Trade Association for providers of Internet services that was established in 1995 to promotes competition, self-regulation and the development of the Internet industry, is once again voicing its opposition for “ evolved ” plans by UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson and his Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to impose technical measures against accused file-sharers that includes Internet disconnection. It’s concerned that the recently introduced Digital Economy Bill , far from strengthening the nation’s communications infrastructure, will penalize the success of the Internet industry and undermine the backbone of the digital economy. “ISPA is extremely disappointed by aspects of the proposals to address illicit file-sharing,” said ISPA Secretary General Nicholas Lansman.
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