[Infowarrior] - Google Toolbar Tracks Browsing Even After Users Choose Disable

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Forno
Google Toolbar Tracks Browsing Even After Users Choose Disable Ben Edelman January 26, 2010 Run the Google Toolbar, and it’s strikingly easy to activate “Enhanced Features” -- transmitting to Google the full URL of every page-view, including searches at competing search engines. Some critics

[Infowarrior] - ACTA Guide, Part Two: The Documents (Official and Leaked)

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Forno
ACTA Guide, Part Two: The Documents (Official and Leaked) Tuesday January 26, 2010 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4730/125/ Negotiations in the 7th round of the ACTA talks open this morning in Mexico with civil enforcement issues on the agenda. Yesterday I posted on the developments

[Infowarrior] - ACTA: International Harmonization at What Cost?

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Forno
ACTA: International Harmonization at What Cost? Legal Analysis by Gwen Hinze The next round of negotiations on ACTA start today in Guadalajara, Mexico. This week’s negotiations will apparently focus on civil enforcement, border measures, and enforcement procedures in the digital

[Infowarrior] - Navy Next-Gen Network Looks Highly Vulnerable To Cyber Attack

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Forno
(Having done security reviews on NMCI years ago, I don't see the NextGen navy network faring any better than NMCI on the infosec front. I was not impressed back then with how infosec, among other things, were handled on NMCI --rick) LexingtonInstitute.org January 26, 2010 Navy Next-Gen

[Infowarrior] - Pentagon Report Calls for Office of ‘Strategic Deception’

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Forno
Pentagon Report Calls for Office of ‘Strategic Deception’ • By Noah Shachtman • January 26, 2010 | • 12:54 pm | • Categories: Spies, Secrecy and Surveillance http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/pentagon-report-calls-for-office-of-strategic-deception/ The

[Infowarrior] - Let's Hear it For Paywalls...

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Forno
After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site By John Koblin January 26, 2010 | 3:04 p.m In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business

[Infowarrior] - U.S. school bans the dictionary

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Forno
Paging Mrs. Lovejoy ---rf U.S. school bans the dictionary Published On Tue Jan 26 2010 Cathal Kelly Staff Reporter http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/755936--u-s-school-bans-the-dictionary A Southern California school board has pulled the Merriam-Webster dictionary off its shelves