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The subject of this article sounds like a mock-cartoon version of repressive censorship laws. But the proposals are real. They have been widely discussed in the Brazilian blogosphere and to some extent in the Brazilian press and TV, but they've received hardly any attention in the United States.
One of the reasons I've always liked the Balisage Conference and its predecessors is location: it's in Montreal, in August. This year, though, the pros and cons of that location seemed much much clearer. On a regular basis, several times...
Dan Kaminsky: Upgrade Your DNS Now!
DNS is the fundamental human-friendly abstraction of the Internet. It maps names such as oreilly.com to addresses computers can understand. Yet there are flaws in the protocol, which mean that malicious users can redirect your request for oreilly.com for their own nefarious purposes. Security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered this danger and convinced the major DNS providers to work around the flaw. Here's how you can protect yourself and your information.
Knowing what's on your phone--and on those of your employees
Jonathan Zdziarski, while helping to develop an open toolkit for the iPhone, uncovered a fascinating trove of information that the iPhone offers to anyone who knows how to get at it. He now provides never-before-published guidelines to getting information off of an iPhone and on the computers to which it has synched, in iPhone Forensics, currently offered in RoughCut online format.
The Internet Archive obeys robots.txt of course (lucky for you if you have access to it on your site, otherwise not so much) and they will also agree to remove things at the domain owners request. Other libraries might not be so accommodating, specifically the Danish netarchive might not be so accommodating, lets look at some stuff they say - the following is from the already linked survey report:
This rant/post comes due to my finishing the book "Geekonomics"(book site) - my earlier impressions here and here. The way the book ends, BTW, just kicks you in the balls, hard (look up what Mr Petrov did on Sept 26,...

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