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UK to science publishers: don’t follow recording industry down the tubes

There's been a growing push to get more scientific research out from behind paywalls. The federal government , private funding bodies, and a number of research institutions have all adopted policies that either...

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Friday, May 4th, 2012 Net News No Comments

"Literally" the day he was arrested, hacker Sabu helped the FBI

It didn't take much time to turn Hector "Sabu" Monsegur into an FBI informant —just a few hours, in fact. “Since literally the day he was arrested, the defendant has been cooperating with...

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Friday, May 4th, 2012 Net News No Comments

An Intentional Mistake: The Anatomy of Google’s Wi-Fi Sniffing Debacle

Photo: jadjadjad /Flickr Google’s public version of events of how it came to secretly intercept Americans’ data sent on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers over a two-year period doesn’t quite mesh with what the search...

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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 Net News No Comments

Furious judge decries "blizzard" of copyright troll lawsuits

Courts around the country are being flooded with mass copyright lawsuits. In a typical case, the owner of a pornographic film sues dozens of anonymous defendants in a single lawsuit, obtains their contact...

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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 Net News No Comments

Google releases full details of FCC investigation into Street View WiFi snooping

Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into the company’s collection of "payload data" from millions of business and residential WiFi networks, says the Los Angeles Times ....

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Saturday, April 28th, 2012 Net News No Comments