Don Reisinger
TechCrunch.com
Monday, September 1, 2008; 9:57 AM

An anonymous tipster wrote to us this morning to tell us that Cuil, the ill-fated"Google Killer," has unleashed its Twiceler indexing bot on websites across the globe and in the process, has brought many sites down.

"I don't know what spawned it, but when Cuil attempts to index a site, it ( Read more... )

Comcast to limit customers' broadband usage

By Yinka AdegokeThu Aug 28, 10:20 PM ET

Comcast Corp, the largest U.S. cable operator, said on Thursday it will cap customers' Internet usage starting October 1, in a bid to ensure the best service for the vast majority of its subscribers.

Comcast said it was setting a monthly data usage threshold of 250 ( Read more... )

Revealed

By Kim Zetter lAugust 26, 2008 | 8:00:00 PMCategories: DefCon, Glitches and Bugs, Hacks and Cracks

Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency.

The tactic ( Read more... )

Wed, 08/27/2008 - 15:45 - dlindorff
I was a speaker last night at an anti-war event sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Monmouth County, Progressive Democrats of America and Democrats For America in Lincroft, NJ, near the shore. It was a great group of activist Americans who want to see this country end the Iraq War, ( Read more... )

August 26, 2008 By: Martin Category: 2008 election, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, FCC, George W. Bush, John McCain, Republicans, blogosphere, corporatism, culture, journalism, law of the jungle, media, openness, outsourcing, populism, recommended reading, stupid things I read on the Internets, surveillance, ( Read more... )

'Hacktivists' Update Their Mission

By Kim Hart

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 27, 2008; D01

TORONTO -- Here in the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, a new breed of hackers is conducting digital espionage.

They are among a growing number of investigators who monitor how traffic is routed through countries, where Web sites are ( Read more... )

So-called porn mode tools to debut in IE8 Beta 2 this month

Gregg Keizer

August 25, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. today spelled out new privacy tools in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) that some have dubbed "porn mode" in a nod to the most obvious use of a browser privacy mode.

A privacy advocate applauded the move, calling it a "great step forward ( Read more... )

German politicians are being urged to tighten data protection laws after a state privacy watchdog said information on the entire German population was available and being traded online.

By Harry de Quetteville

Last Updated: 8:52PM BST 20 Aug 2008

Thilo Weichert, data commissioner ( Read more... )

A reader responds to, " FCC chief proposes free Internet",

Anonymous wrote:

Aug. 20th, 2008

Bait and Switch

The Honeypot:

Free Internet

The Cost:

Absolute Surveillance

Link

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Published: Aug. 20, 2008

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- A U.S. government official says high-speed Internet access should be available to all residents even if that means providing it free of charge.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin says ( Read more... )