Archive for the ‘Freedom of speech’ Category
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
The UN, the NSA, and others are talking about a change to Internet Protocols that would implement "IP Traceback" which would make it difficult, if not impossible, to be anonymous online.
The big noise they're making to justify it is how anonymity is often abused and used for criminal purposes. ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
After a whole load of claims, counterclaims and assorted legal wrangling, the FCC has finally issued an order on the matter of Comcast interfering with p2p applications. On 8/20/08 they ordered (pdf) that among other things:
Comcast within 30 days to disclose the details of their unreasonable network management
practices, submit ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The response by Comcast's to recent inquiries by the FCC have apparently gotten some people in Washington to wake up a bit and at least open the way to some new talk about the subject of Net Neutrality.
Rep. Ed Markey, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
You may remember that back in Nov 2007 the house passed a surveillance bill that does not give immunity telecoms for their participation in illegal domestic spying and warrantless wiretapping.
On February 12, 2008 the Senate passed it's version of the bill that DOES give immunity to telecoms. This bill ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
This ought to be interesting. Some law students in Maine is taking on the RIAA. The University of Maine School of Law’s Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic have decided to defend fellow students against another one of the RIAA's efforts to squash any semblance of freedom when it comes ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
A couple of years ago the EFF brought a lawsuit against AT&T because of it's taking part in the NSA's illegal domestic spying scandal. In recent months there's been pressure coming from the Bush administration trying to get Congress to give the telecommunications companies immunity from these lawsuits.
Not long ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
An ISP in Canada has been accused of hijacking web pages.
I don't get exactly what they're trying to prove, except that they're willing to muck about with stuff that's none of their business.... Their job is to provide connection to the Internet, NOT to edit, alter or otherwise affect the ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Just in case anyone thinks that Google is interested in people's privacy think again. They're not. Google recently agreed to give up the IP address of an anonymous blogger who used Google's Blogger to publish a blog in which some politicians were slandered.
I'm not defending slander or baseless accusations ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
This is probably the last one of these I'm going to do for a while since the node's data store is continuing to grow in size and the node appears to be pretty much fully integrated with the network. Performance wise everything is working every bit as good as ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Something over two days in and the datastore is beginning to fill out to a percentage greater than one.
Data Store:
Maximum size 25 GiB
Used space 1,255,116 KiB
Free space 24,959,284 KiB
Percent used 4
Total keys 3126
The routing table is also shaping up pretty good. It now knows about 225 nodes that it has connected to
# Histogram of ...
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