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Google Censorship - How It Works

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Google is arguable the world's most popular search engine. However, contrary perhaps to a naive impression, in some cases the results of a search are affected by various government-related factors. That is, search results which may otherwise be shown, are deliberately . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 17, 2003

'Honest, We're the Good Guys'

American businesses feel a little like a rope that's being used in a tug of war between privacy and patriotism. Their customers want the personal information that businesses collect to be kept private, but the government wants access to some of that data for use in various homeland security plans. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 14, 2003

URU joins authentication service fray

The URU Web service will identify individuals online without invading their privacy - and says it can alert people to attempted identity theft. A service is being developed that will help businesses check the identity of people they are dealing with -- without increasing the number of places where personal data is stored.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 10, 2003

Six/Four: The Internet Under Cover

The Six/Four System is peer-to-peer technology that makes it possible to carry out almost any Internet activity securely and -- more importantly, for all sorts of reasons -- anonymously. The Hacktivismo system, or anything based on it, just may become the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 07, 2003

PhotoSpam Wars Make Strange Bedfellows

Ask two Internet users a question and you'll get three opinions, all of them fiery, heartfelt, and contradictory... unless the subject is unsolicited commercial e-mail. The only difference of opinion on spam will be who gets first crack at the cretins who send it out. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 06, 2003

New Rules Tackle Text Adverts

Companies sending text message or e-mail adverts will have to get the permission of users before they do so under new rules. Regulations on new media have now been included in the latest edition of the code of advertising practice, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 04, 2003

Experts: Copyright Law Hinders Technology

Speaking Friday at a University of California at Berkeley conference on the law and policy of digital rights management, experts from all circles seem to agree that more is going wrong than right with the current approach to protecting digital content. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 03, 2003

Going to Extremes to Fight Spam

Felix Lin and Linus Upson want to make it harder to send and receive e-mail. They believe it's the best way to deal with the problem of spam. On Monday, the two co-founders of AvantGo launched a new spam filter . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 03, 2003

ACLU Admits Another Privacy Gaffe

Protecting personal information on the digital frontier remains a tough task, even for the most ardent privacy activists. That's the lesson the American Civil Liberties Union learned this week after sending out an e-mail newsletter that inadvertently contained the names . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 27, 2003

"Trusted" Computing and Digital Rights Management

Recent reports available with news sites and also published in the Economic Times of India suggest that Microsoft [hereinafter referred to as MSFT] will be pushing through the Windows Rights Management Architecture & Services [WRMA & WRMS] by the 1st week of March, 2003. In the light of such an event, this article proposes to establish the fallacy of the Trusted Computing paradigm as made available in public document(s) from TCPA [https://www.trustedcomputing.org] . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 26, 2003

A Totally New Reason To Hate SPAM and Viral Marketing Tricks

Today I found my email account at Yahoo.com deactivated. It is an account that I have been using since when Yahoo first opened its doors and offered free email to the masses. I attempted to logon as has been my . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 26, 2003

ENUM: Bad For Privacy, or Very Bad For Privacy?

There's a lot happening with ENUM fairly quickly, and it's hard to keep track of half of it. Alas, one thing about ENUM seems pretty clear: as currently specified, ENUM's intersection with the DNS creates a major privacy problem for the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 25, 2003

Antispam Tools Multiplying Like Spam

As spam continues to roll over corporate networks in ever-larger quantities, the cavalry of vendors offering defenses continues to grow as well. No fewer than five vendors are shipping or are about to release new products designed to keep spam . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 25, 2003

Don't Read This [confidentiality notices]

Of all the ineffectual e-mail disclaimers I see, one I received earlier this week takes the prize for self-defeating impotence. A public relations flak wrote me trying to get publicity for a security conference. His was the standard spiel: the whos who would be there, the whats that would be learned, the wheres and whens and whys.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 24, 2003

The Best-Laid Plans of Copyright Law

It's no surprise the entertainment industry uses copyright law to protect its products. But a printer maker? Lexmark International (LXK ) is doing just that--and it could cost you money. If you have an Optra T620 laser office printer, you can . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 24, 2003

Spam Offers: Some Legit, Most Not

The human gene pool should be incapable of producing enough idiots to financially support the vast number of spammers whose scat litters so many inboxes. So how do spammers make any money when no one with even half a clue . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 12, 2003

Spammers Break Law With Covert Tracking

Many spammers are ignoring laws forbidding them to insert covert tracking codes in their messages, according to a survey by out-law.com, the IT and ecommerce legal service arm of law firm Masons, and network security outfit iomart. The survey highlights . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 12, 2003

How To Stop Identity Theft--For Good

Identity theft is a growing problem in the U.S., with complaints rising 73 percent from 2001 to 2002. But there's a mistaken impression that identity theft is carried out merely by rogue hackers. That's not the case. If . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 11, 2003

The Big Business of Fighting Spam

What do Viagra, stock tips, personal ads and activities with farm animals have in common? They are all the subject lines of unwanted, unsolicited e-mail messages, not-so-affectionately known as spam. The sheer volume of electronic junk mail has overwhelmed users' inboxes . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 10, 2003

Ashcroft Proposes Vast New Surveillance Powers

A sweeping new anti-terrorism bill drafted by the Justice Department would dramatically increase government electronic surveillance and data collection abilities, and impose the first-ever federal criminal penalties for using encryption in the U.S. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 10, 2003

Linux Privacy - Page 54

Navigating the Tails 6.8 Update: What It Means for Security-Minded Users

Google Chooses Passkeys Over Passwords: Examining the Security Benefits for Linux Users

Tails 6.6 Released: Unpacking Key Features & Updates