Posts Tagged apple

Australia’s Bizarre Classification System For Internet Censorship

stavros-59 writes “Australia’s internet censorship watchdog, ACMA, uses an internet classification system originally intended for children’s PC filters. ACMA has now made what must be the most amazing recent decisions of the whole bizarre censorship debate. The Register today has a story about ACMA’s decision to force Apple to withdraw their ITMS gift feature from [...]

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Who Controls Data About Public Transportation?

How should city transit authorities treat independent software developers who make use of public schedule data? What approach results in the best experience for their passengers and customers?
Two models appear to be emerging to answer this question. One, typified by New York City’s MTA and Washington, DC’s WMATA, sees schedule and related data as valuable [...]

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Feds use phone bills to get sources

I found this pretty interesting, to find out names of sources that a journalist talked to about the government’s secret wiretapping of Americans without court orders, federal investigators are using phone records. So they look to the phone companies for names to find out who talked to the Times about the investigation into how [...]

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Hushmail unencrypted and handed over client’s emails; backdoor revealed

Hushmail was always known as a secure, private webmail company that markets itself by saying that “…not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer.” But it turns out that statement seems not to apply to individuals [...]

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Apple limits iPod users’ rights

Update: so someone started a petition on the Apple forums proposing that Apple either build iTunes for Linux, or they ‘unlock’ the locked database they introduced. Want to see the thread? Well it was here, but apparently Apple saw fit to remove it. That, along with their firmware upgrades to the iPhone [...]

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