Saturday, February 16, 2008
I would like to say that I had some hand in this but I didn’t. In fact I had been aware of the internal campaign by Stuart Shieber over the course of the last year but unsure of how it would play out. His success is paramount to the distribution of knowledge. Berkman Fellow Melanie […]
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
The next time someone raves about the advances of computing ask them about this challenge. Truly a benchmark for the next 100 years in computing a paper published by Adi Shamir and Eran Tromer entitled “On the Cost of Factoring RSA-1024” [pdf] hypothesizes a device which could “break a 1024-bit RSA key in one year […]
Release scheduled for: February 4, 2008 Unfamiliar with TrueCrypt? Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive. Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent. Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an […]
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The 2005 study from LEK Consulting commissioned by the MPAA tripled the actual amount of college downloading from 15% to 45%. The industry group now admits they were incorrect about the amount of downloading by college students however they are NOT changing their minds about the rider they attached to the College Opportunity and Affordability […]
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Applying this framework, the Article explores ways — some of them bound to be unpopular among advocates of an open Internet represented by uncompromising end-to-end neutrality — in which the Internet can be made to satisfy genuine and pressing security concerns while retaining the most important generative aspects of today’s networked technology. Zittrain, Jonathan, “The […]
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Legal perspective on Internet Filtering from John Palfrey. More on Psiphon Psiphon is a censorship circumvention solution allowing users to access blocked sites in countries where the Internet is censored. Psiphon turns a regular home computer into a personal, encrypted server capable of retrieving and displaying web pages anywhere.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
The FSF is conducting a end of year campaign to increase membership. If you read this blog you are likely a person who appreciates the work that FSF does. Show some support and donate ($120 annual) and become a member. You get some rad gear + stickers. check out the video Donate now or Become […]
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
TASER International, Inc. (Nasdaq:TASR) has sent a take down notice to Daily Kos for a blog post about the Vancouver killing of an immigrant man using a Taser. Clearly TASER International is upset that people are linking their offerings to deaths however the facts are hard to ignore. Many of the apologists seem to take […]
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
It is often times hard to take serious the small slights of willful and petty companies like Comcast when much larger issues are presenting themselves in other countries. The Open Net Initiative has just released a report on the total suspension of Internet and cellular services in the country of Burma. [pdf] The military junta […]
Comcast has be shown by the AP and others to engage in willful blocking of Bittorrent seeding. It does not matter if the seed is completely legal or not. Comcast has decided that a unilateral blocking approach is what they want. Comcast will send RST (reset) packets in both directions if a new seed is […]
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