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Threat of US spooks haunt Google
It wasn’t too long ago that Google put it’s full attention towards cloud-computing, targeting businesses and universities to utilize Gmail and other Google Apps as their core infrastructure. Eighteen months ago, Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada did just that - saving millions and months up front and hundreds of thousands in annual [...]
FBI turns to entrapment via hyperlinks
CNET News.com has a somewhat startling report on the FBI posting fake hyperlinks in order to snare child porn suspects. The sting operation utilized a webboard called Ranchi, an alleged hot bed for illicit porn. FBI Agent Luders posted links to supposed indecent underage material hosted at upload.sytes.net, likely controlled by the FBI. As [...]
Your keys to the United Kingdom please
New laws going into effect today in the United Kingdom make it a crime to refuse to decrypt almost any encrypted data requested by authorities as part of a criminal or terror investigation. Individuals who are believed to have the cryptographic keys necessary for such decryption will face up to 5 years in prison [...]
Vonage partly loses appeal, subscribers down
For the second time in two days, Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. was hit with bad legal news Wednesday when a federal appeals court upheld a jury verdict and injunction against it for patent infringement.
A Virginia jury had awarded Verizon Communications Corp. $58 million in damages in March plus 5.5 percent [...]
No one left to sue, SCO goes belly up
Service provider SCO Group ended a major phase in the history of both UNIX and Linux today by declaring chapter 11 bankruptcy, forcing the company to reorganize before it can resume normal business. The sometimes scorned company said it had decided to take the action before it was absolutely necessary to make sure its existing [...]
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