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West Va. Internet consultant paid $512k in federal stimulus funds

flickr / UConn Libraries MAGIC Earlier this year, reports emerged that West Virginia had become the home of the $22,000 router. Using federal stimulus money, state officials decided to install more than 1,000...

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Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Good News For Spies and Dictators: ‘FreedomBox’ Is In Danger of an Early Death

Photo: personaldemocracy /Flickr It’s a developers’ nightmare word: vaporware – a term for hyped new software that’s never delivered. FreedomBox, an ambitious free-software project designed to embed privacy and security into netizens’ routers,...

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Thursday, June 28th, 2012 Net News No Comments

How To Access Kat.ph If Your ISP Blocked It

Despite the website’s efforts to stay within the legal boundaries of the DMCA, Kat.ph , formerly known as KickAssTorrents is apparently being blocked by Italy. If that’s the case for you as well,...

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Thursday, June 7th, 2012 Net News 8 Comments

Prosecutors: "pedodave69" was former top FBI agent

Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson Law enforcement v. Internet sex criminals How a fake Justin Bieber "sextorted" hundreds of girls through Facebook How would-be pedophiles use Craigslist—and how they get caught "The hidden...

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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 Net News No Comments

PirateBox Takes File-Sharing Off The Radar and Offline, For Next To Nothing

With the advent of the personal computer and with it the ability to endlessly copy data, the human desire to share has skyrocketed. Shifting data from A to B, wherever those points may...

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Sunday, March 11th, 2012 Net News No Comments