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.
Results tagged “security” from O'Reilly News
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...
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.
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,...





