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Follow up to WikiLeaks Releases Secret US Embassy Cables, this news release: “The news media are reporting today, accurately, that the Library of Congress is blocking access to the Wikileaks site across its computer systems, including those for use by patrons in the reading rooms. I wanted to provide here the same statement weve been …
Escaping from Microsofts Protected Mode Internet Explorer – Evaluating a potential security boundary, November 2010 “In Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced a new browser security feature called Protected Mode. According to Microsoft, this mechanism significantly reduces the ability of an attack [against Internet Explorer] to write, alter or destroy data on the …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission, the nations chief privacy policy and enforcement agency for 40 years, issued a preliminary staff report today that proposes a framework to balance the privacy interests of consumers with innovation that relies on consumer information to develop beneficial new products and services. The proposed report also suggests implementation of …
Use of the internet in higher-income households, Jim Jansen, Senior Fellow, 11/24/2010 “Those in higher-income households are different from other Americans in their tech ownership and use. 95% of those in households earning over $75,000 use the internet and cell phones. Those in higher-income households are more likely to use the internet on any given …
Andy Greenberg’s interview was conducted in London on November 11, 2010 – prior to the data dump of U.S. State Department documents: “Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out. Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests …
News release: “Verizon is launching 150/35 megabits per second (Mbps) Internet service – the fastest mass-market broadband service in the nation – over the company’s all-fiber-optic FiOS network. The company has begun to roll out the ultra-high-speed service to the majority of the more than 12.5 million homes that the FiOS network passes, and will …
“Tom Arah investigates the war between Apple, Microsoft, Google and Adobe for web domination – In the 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee produced the first web browser, our expectations of what the internet can deliver have changed beyond all recognition. However, the core experience of browsing of HTML-based pages has remained largely intact. Now thats …
Official Google New Blog: “News publishers and readers both benefit when journalists get proper credit for their work. That can be difficult, with news spreading so quickly and many websites syndicating articles to others. Thats why were experimenting with two new metatags for Google News: syndication-source and original-source. Each of these metatags addresses a different …
Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere, Jillian C. York, The OpenNet Initiative (ONI), November 2010 “Online conversations today exist primarily in the realm of social media and blogging platforms, most of which are owned by private companies. Such privately owned platforms now occupy a significant role in the public sphere, as places in which ideas …
Google: “..were releasing a white paper, Enabling Trade in the Era of Information Technologies: Breaking Down Barriers to the Free Flow of Information, that explores the ways that governments impose limits on the free flow of information online. Its pretty wonky stuff, but the premise is simple: In addition to infringing human rights, governments that …
News release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a new version of HTTPS Everywhere, a security tool that offers enhanced protection for Firefox browser users against “Firesheep” and other exploits of webpage security flaws. HTTPS secures web browsing by encrypting both requests from your browser to websites and the resulting pages that are displayed. …
Long Live the Web – “The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperityand even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending.” By Tim Berners-Lee “The world wide web went live, on my physical desktop in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 1990. It consisted of one Web site and …
