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Free Faxing Basics – Send a Fax and Free Fax Number
Even though this is 2010, some people still use fax machines. There will, inevitably, be a point in your life where you have to fax something to someone. More and more people are accepting scanned documents and eSignatures, but it’s simply unavoidable.
Continue reading »4 Hackers Indicted in $9.5 Million Bank Card Attack
Four men have been indicted in Georgia on charges that they hacked into the Atlanta-based bank card processing company RBS WorldPay. They allegedly used an army of flunkies to steal $9.5 million in cash from ATM machines around the world in a span of hours. Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia; Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St.
Continue reading »EFF ’staying safe online’ activist guide
What’s descrfibed as a “practical guide to help activists from around the world use the Internet safely under repressive regimes” has just neen released by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). The foundation says ”Surveillance Self-Defense International’ is an offshoot from its ‘Surveillance Self-Defense manual,’ an online how-to guide for protecting private data against government spying in the US which, “reflects the fact that the best strategies to achieve privacy are very different for people in the U.S. and people living elsewhere, sometimes under authoritarian regimes”.
Continue reading »New shocks in RIAA v Tenenbaum
p2pnet news view | RIAA:- In Sony BMG Music Entertainment v Tenenbaum , the RIAA filed its “response” to the Judge’s question as to whether fair use fact issues were triable to the jury or the judge, and defendant filed his pretrial memorandum. The trial is scheduled for Monday, July 27 . Plaintiff’s response re fair use jury trial question Defendant’s pretrial memorandum Exhibit A witness list Exhibit B exhibit list Exhibit C requested jury instructions Although I should be surprised at nothing in this case, I am shocked by both filings.
Continue reading »Apple iPhone worker kills himself
Workers building Apple iPods , “mostly young women from rural areas of China” labouring in, “15-hour shifts, were, “housed in dormitories from which outsiders are banned, and regularly pay about half their wages for room and board charges,” said a UK newspaper in 2006. And in a report, Apple admitted there were indeed, “violations to our Code of Conduct”. Now, “Last Thursday, 25 year-old Sun Danyong committed suicide after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype he was responsible for went missing,” says Digital Beat , going on: “It’s a story, from what tech-industry friends in China tell me, of how Apple’s secretive ways send extreme pressure all the way down the company’s international supply chain.” In the 2006 scandal, the BBC quoted Apple as describing the Foxconn facility in China, where the women worked, as a ‘campus’.
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