Google China and Baidu apologize for porn links: “ Shamed by government crackdown Three of China’s most popular search engines have apologized for being slow to remove links to pornographic material, following the government’s pledge…
Student Sentenced to 15 Years for YouTube Terror Video | Threat Level from Wired.com: “Student Sentenced to 15 Years for YouTube Terror Video By David Kravets EmailDecember 18, 2008 | 5:46:24 PMCategories: Crime Picture_15 An…
CN – Cracking down on dissent: “(Economist) Increasingly worried about a sickly economy sowing social unrest, the Chinese government is tightening state control over the media. Its main aim appears to be to smother dissemination…
EU – Safer Internet programme 2009 – 2013 published: “(EUR-Lex) OJ L 348 of 24 December 2008. Decision No 1351/2008/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 establishing a multiannual…
Hacking Godfather ‘Maksik’ Sentenced to 30 Years by Turkish Court: “A Ukrainian cybercrime lord linked to virtually every major breach of U.S. retail networks in the past four years was sentenced this week to 30…
New e-mail law ‘is an attack on civil liberties’: “Upcoming rules that force internet companies to hold details of every e-mail sent in Britain are a waste of money and an attack on privacy, according…
Gaza War’s New Front: Facebook: “At first glance Israel seems to be dominating the information war over Gaza. The Israeli government has launched a campaign to dominate the blogosphere: Pro-Israel hackers are waging cyberwar against…
Confusion reigns ahead of comms überdatabase debate: “ Disentangling IMP from the EU Analysis Jacqui Smith will soon begin one of the Home Office’s famed consultation exercises on new systems demanded by spy chiefs to…
Online Threat to Kill Obama Leads to Arrest: “Secret Service agents raid the home of a man suspected of promising Barack Obama a ’50 cal in the head’ on a Yahoo message board. They take…