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Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for
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| Google is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth, its share of
| bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use is orders of
| magnitude greater than its payment for its cost, according to a new study by
| NETCompetition.org, -a site committed to Net Neutrality- “pro-competition
| Internet forum funded by broadband companies.”
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=596
Such groups should be shut down for corruption of whatever. They distort the
population's voice. What is this recent attack on the Web anyway? It's
white-collar crime.
Recent:
Bad Phorm: UK Police give green light to Internet spying
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| The email is quoted by El Reg and states that "it has been decided that no
| Criminal Offence has been committed" and there was a "lack of Criminal Intent
| on behalf of BT and Phorm Inc in relation to the tests."
|
| The best bit, though, is the revelation that BT customers would have given
| implied consent to being spied upon without their knowledge because the aim
| of the tests was to enhance product quality.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20759/1054/
Police drop BT-Phorm probe
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| The European Commission is now the last authority that could move against BT
| and Phorm, or punish UK authorities for their failure to enforce privacy
| regulations. Responsibility for enforcing those rules belongs to the
| Information Commissioner's Office. In letters to BT earlier this year,
| obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, it agreed with the firm that
| its customers were too stupid to understand what the tests were about, and
| said it did not intend to pursue the matter.
|
| Commission lawyers are currently analysing the UK government's explanation of
| why no action has been taken. Last week the Department for Business,
| Enterprise and Regulatory Reform said it believes future Phorm deployments
| can be legal, but refused to make public what it told Brussels about the
| secret trials.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/22/bt_phorm_police_drop/
More on Number 10’s website fiasco
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| The original stylesheet4 is 612 lines in length and is 9234 bytes in size
| (9KB).
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| The modified stylesheet5 is 3826 lines long and weighs in at a frankly
| astonishing 63724 bytes (63KB)!
|
| [...]
|
| “If” the developers have modified the Wordpress engine, as is being suggested
| as a possibility here, and then sold it to the Government, in my humble
| understanding that means they have distributed their modifications. That
| means those modifications must also be licensed under the GPL. I had a quick
| look on New Media Maze’s web site and couldn’t find an area for software
| downloads or mention of the GPL. That doesn’t say anything to be honest and
| there might be nothing to this, but it would be interesting to find out a bit
| more… Is there a real Wordpress guru who can look at the “footprint” of the
| XHTML the site generates and tell if it is different? Or are there any other
| ways to tell if it has been modified?
|
| Anyway, what a wheez this all is for us bloggers: It just isn’t Gordon’s year
| is it…
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/18/more-on-number-10/
Timber! (More on Number 10’s website)
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| So, out of 24 files in the original theme package, only three files have been
| removed. If you look here in the comments from my post of yesterday, you can
| read what Dave Smith of NMM said:
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| 1. The only file that was drawn upon from Ant’s theme was the css file.
|
| Now clearly some of the files above will be pre-requisites for any Wordpress
| theme (like index.php for example) but 21 out of 24?.
|
| I’m sure I can smell something quite smelly around here.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/22/timber-more-on-number-10/
British authorities lost memory stick containing information about dangerous
criminals
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| This stick apparently contains unencrypted information on numerous
| incarcerated criminals in England and Wales.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/114704
British Government Violates Copyright
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| As much as I utterly despise the entire premise of Intellectual Monopoly,
| this is about violating the principles of a Free License, and if it's good
| enough for the British government to violate our civil rights in the name of
| Intellectual Monopoly, then it's good enough for the Free World to protect
| its "property" (in fact Freedom) too…
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http://slated.org/british_government_violates_copyright
UK government stole website theme
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| NUMBER 10, the UK Prime Minister's website, is apparently built using a
| design it nicked.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/18/uk-government-stole-website
Number 10 and the Creative Commons
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| I can only assume that Number 10 have requested, and received, permission of
| the author to remove all traces of this license and attribution from their
| Wordpress site. I have left a “contact us message” at the author’s website to
| see if this is the case…
|
| [Update] Anthony Baggett, the theme’s author, has just confirmed that No 10
| have not requested that the attribution be removed. That’s not playing fair
| by my book.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/18/number-10-and-the-creative-commons/
ISPs Will All Spy on Their Customers, Professor Warns
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| If there's a candidate for the worst future violator of your privacy, look no
| further than the company you pay for broadband.
|
| So says University of Colorado law professor and former federal prosecutor
| Paul Ohm, who argues in a new article that ISPs have the means, motive and
| opportunity to kill your online privacy.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/isps-will-all-s.html
Police quiz BT on secret Phorm trials
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| City of London police questioned BT earlier this week as part of a probe into
| the covert wiretapping and profiling of the internet use of tens of thousands
| of BT customers during tests of Phorm's adware system.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/05/bt_phorm_police_meeting/
Phorm secretly tracked Americans too
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| of British Telecom customers as part of its grand scheme to target online ads
| from inside the world's ISPs, it was "operating a number of public commercial
| services" on various stateside networks.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/13/phorm_us_tests/
Spy fear over e-mail check plan
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| Plans to give local councils and other public bodies the power to monitor
| e-mail and internet traffic have been branded a "snoopers' charter".
|
| The government wants to make it mandatory for phone and internet companies to
| store all information on personal web use for 12 months.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7557963.stm
Home Office questioned over Phorm
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| Critics have asked why the Home Office has not intervened over secret Phorm
| trials BT conducted in 2006 and 2007.
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The EU has asked the UK government to clarify the situation.
Bad Phorm: EU demands UK Government response on intrusive web ad tracking
technology
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| Controversial behavioral advertising targeting outfit Phorm, whose Webwise ad
| technology monitors user browsing habits to serve appropriate advertising
| messages, might have dragged the UK Government into a slugfest with the
| European Union over a possible breach of strict Euro data laws...
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19884/1054/
Controversial Ad Network Caught Editing Wikipedia
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| Phorm has been beset by controversy for years over its business model and
| quietly-run trials on British Telecom's (BT) broadband service.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/04/08/controversial-ad-network-caught-editing-wikipedia
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