Acidspew writes “The Australian Government’s plan to filter the Internet has caused furore and has been met with vehement objection. Many people have put their opinions forward regarding this matter, but this time around, M86 Security — the vendor that provided many ISPs equipment during the initial filter trials — has finally weighed in on the discussion. Six of the nine ISP participants in the URL-based Internet filter trial last year used M86’s R3000 filtering kit. According to ARN: ‘Internet filtering won’t prevent people deliberately looking for inappropriate material from accessing blocked content, according to security vendor M86 Security.’ The company continues by saying its filter gear was designed to be implemented into schools and enterprise businesses, not for an entire country. The article also touches on M86’s views on censorship.”
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boarder8925 writes “In a move sure to surprise no one, Obama has come out on the side of the MPAA/RIAA and has backed the ACTA: ‘We’re going to aggressively protect our intellectual property,’ Obama said in his speech, ‘Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people ...
Hugh Pickens writes “Techflash reports that Classmates.com has agreed to pay up to $9.5 million to its users to settle a lawsuit that accused the social network of sending deceptive emails that made people believe their old friends from high school were reaching out to connect — only to discover, after paying for a membership, ... ...
terets1 writes “Reuters reports that Venezuela’s leader, Hugo Chavez, issued a call on Saturday for ‘internet controls’ to prevent rumors and inaccurate reporting from spreading. He specifically cited a case in which a website incorrectly reported that a senior minister had been assassinated and kept the story up for two day...
Barence writes “Mozilla has announced plans to redraft the open-source license underpinning projects such as Firefox. The Mozilla Public License 1.1 has been used to distribute numerous projects including Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenSolaris and Flex for over a decade. In the first phase of this process, Mozilla will release an alpha draft based...
this_boat_is_real writes “There’s growing concern over how pharmaceutical companies use social media and the Internet to market their products. Last November, the US Food and Drug Administration held a hearing on the topic, and many were worried over how marketing mediums such as Twitter — which has a 140-character limit on text &...
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