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Deep packet inspection device purged of flaw that threatened TOR users

Cyberoam, a maker of appliances designed to secure sensitive networks, said it has issued an update to fix a flaw that could be used to intercept communications sent over the TOR anonymity network....

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Monday, July 9th, 2012 Net News No Comments

New Zealand’s Fresh Anti-Piracy Law Kicks In, Users Circumvent It

While New Zealand introduced its new law on file-sharing, dedicated downloaders seem determined not back down but find ways to by-pass it Apparently the first round of infringement notices has been shot under...

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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 Net News No Comments

The U.S. Publishing Industry: The Untold Story of Its Own Pirating Habits

The same giant publishers that today complain about piracy, have built their empires by pirating literary works themselves;  HarperCollins is just an example A recent article by Greg Sandoval at Cnet casts a...

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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Trading IPv4 addresses will end in tears

As we run out of IPv4 address space, is it time to create an exchange for trading unused address blocks? Ars contributors Iljitsch van Beijnum and Timothy Lee tackle the issue. In this...

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Monday, August 29th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Monitoring ISPs monitoring customers

p2pnet view P2P:- Canada needs a powerful watchdog with real teeth to monitor the way ISPs monitor their customers with DPI, deep packet inspection or dedicated privacy invasion, depending on how it’s used,...

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Friday, December 3rd, 2010 Net News No Comments