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This Week in Internet Censorship: Opaque Censorship in Turkey, Russia, and Britain | Electronic Fronwww.eff.orgOn Tuesday, Turkey instituted a voluntary filtering system blocks "objectionable content" when enabled. Users will now have to sign up for the free system with their ISP and select from two levels of filtering: child and family. The original intention for this tiered system was for it be mandatory... - Report/Mark as SpamCarrier IQ Drops Empty Legal Threat, Apologizes to Security Researcher | Electronic Frontier Foundatwww.eff.orgToday mobile software company Carrier IQ withdrew (pdf) a bogus legal threat to a security researcher who published an analysis of the company's software, as well as training materials on which he based his research.
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com Are you planning on moving to TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.2?Are you planning on using an RC4 cipher that drops some packets to reduce the risk that the key can be recovered?Thank you for adding fast security which is transparent to users. - Report/Mark as SpamSyrian Surveillance Project Raises Concerns About Effectiveness of Export Controls | Electronic Fronwww.eff.orgOver the past few weeks, numerous stories have emerged documenting just how pervasively the Syrian regime patronizes American companies. First it was Blue Coat, the company that first denied the use of their tools in Syria, which then later backtracked, admitting that thirteen of their appliances we...
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www.eff.orgThe Canadian national anthem proudly honors "The True North strong and free!” Yet Canadians face an imminent round of frightening online spy proposals that threaten long held civil liberties and privacy rights. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has insisted that he won’t budge in his support of onlin... - Report/Mark as Spam
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www.eff.orgFrom Mubarak knocking a country offline by pressuring local ISPs to PayPal caving to political pressure to cut off funding to WikiLeaks, this year has brought us sobering examples of how online speech can be endangered. And it’s not only political speech that is threatened – in the United States, le... - Report/Mark as Spamwww.eff.orgLast week, security researcher Trevor Eckhart posted an analysis of software produced by Carrier IQ, which describes itself as "the world's leading provider of Mobile Service Intelligence solutions." Eckhart concluded that the software, which comes by default on many mobile devices and runs quietly ...
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www.eff.orgSan Francisco - In a victory for fair use, the publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Stephens Media, filed papers yesterday conceding that posting a short excerpt of a news article in an online forum is not copyright infringement. The concession will result in entry of a judgment of non-infring... - Report/Mark as SpamIllinois Appellate Court Upholds Anonymity of Online Critic of Political Candidate | Electronic Fronwww.eff.orgSan Francisco - The Illinois Court of Appeals today overturned a lower court ruling that had ordered the disclosure of the identity of an anonymous online critic of a political candidate, ruling that the First Amendment prevented such "fishing expeditions" undertaken by "those easily offended by onl...
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This Week in Internet Censorship: SOPA, UAE Bloggers on Hunger Strike, Chilean Sites Attacked | Elecwww.eff.orgThis week the House of Representatives opens hearings on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill that EFF--along with a number of prominent organizations and other actors--has opposed loudly and vigorously.
