The OpenNet Initiative released a report documenting the Internet shutdown in Myanmar/Burma. Similar to the shutdown in Nepal after the King assumed power in a coup in 2005. Both of the ISPs cut their Internet access from September 29 to October 4 with the exception of a few brief periods of access. Also, the shutdown [...]
November 5th 2007 
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The Privacy Commission’s blog has an interesting post about the protection of children online. The context is in terms of privacy and not the usual implementation of filtering technologies.
There are increasingly deep levels of intimacy between marketers and children – there’s a thin line between content and commerce
All the major children’s playsites comply with data [...]
October 10th 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
The trial of a man accused of “virtual jihad” is about to start in Germany, reports dw-world.de. The case will focus on whether the (re) posting of audio and video files on the Internet along with the occasion appeal for jihad constitutes “attempting to recruit members” for terrorist organizations.
“It’s an important trial because [...]
October 8th 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
It seems that I missed this article from 2006. The article discusses the creation of CENTCOM’s blog team.
The team’s motto is “Engage,” and Flowers and others work with more than 250 bloggers to try to disseminate news about the good work being done by U.S. forces in the global war on terror.
The blog team also [...]
August 30th 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Following some POC analysis, stopbadware.org issued a press release of analysis of the badware URLs in their database.
StopBadware.org analyzed 49,296 sites - sites submitted by trusted third parties to the StopBadware.org Badware Website Clearinghouse - and identified the following web hosting companies with the largest number of infected sites residing on their servers:
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July 11th 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
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