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Facebook: an ‘ocean of banalities’

p2pnet view P2P | Advertising:- “Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. Whether you want to or not.” That’s the one-line intro to OpenBook . To the right...

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Saturday, September 25th, 2010 Net News No Comments

Microsoft Toughens Windows 7 Protection Against Piracy

Microsoft recently announced that its development team is currently working on an update for Windows 7, aimed at fixing a series of flaws that counterfeiters could exploit to override the anti-piracy measures integrated...

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Friday, February 12th, 2010 Net News No Comments

Experts clash over cell phone jamming at Senate hearing

In the debate over cell phone jamming in prisons, the skeptics have caution and reason on their side, but the advocates bring impressive horror stories. Take Texas State Senator John Whitmire, who testified...

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Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Net News No Comments

FCC cracks down on "gamesmanship" of line-sharing rules

Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps has been promising to do it for months: clean up the process by which incumbent carriers are allowed to raise the prices they charge smaller telcos for access...

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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Net News No Comments

EFF sues for publication of FBI domestic surveillance manual

The EFF's recent amicus filing in the case of Warshak v. United States got quite a bit of mileage out of a nice quote from the Department of Justice's surveillance manual, which contains...

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Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Net News No Comments