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Internet Censorship

2008-04-07 05:00:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Internet pioneer John Gilmore said "the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it", and we believed him. In 1996, cyberlibertarian John Perry Barlow issued his 'Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace' at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, and online. He told governments: "You have no moral right to rule us,...
 
Tags: internet censorship, censorship, internet censorship measures, enable internet censorship, internet, prevent anonymous internet, internet access, global internet, net interprets censorship
 
 
 
 
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Fear of Internet Predators Largely Unfounded

2008-02-26 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Internet-related sex crimes are a pretty small proportion of sex crimes that adolescents suffer," Wolak added, based on three nationwide surveys conducted by the center In an article titled "Online 'Predators' and Their Victims," which appears Tuesday in American Psychologist, the journal of the American Psychological Association, Wolak and...
 
Tags: internet, internet predators, internet predators represent, predators, sex crimes, sex, child, child predators, internet predators trick
 
 
 
 
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Terror on the Internet - Conflict of Interest

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2008-03-18 19:58:23 by HASH0x8471fd8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Internet: A Complex Issue, and Getting Harder Indeed, politicians around the world call at regular intervals for terrorist websites to be removed from their host sites servers or for search engines to block access to them. They also call for laws that would make posting instructions on how to kill or maim people or destroy property punishable...
 
Tags: cyber jihadist, cyber jihadist communities, novice cyber jihadists, jihadists, cyber jihadist forums, cyber jihadist sites, attract cyber jihadists, internet, cyber jihadists
 
 
 
 
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A Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol

2008-08-20 07:48:56 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Internet Protocols (IP) were designed for warfare environments, the top level goal for the DARPA Internet Program was the sharing of large service machines on the ARPANET. As a result, many protocol specifications focus only on the operational aspects of the protocols they specify and overlook their security implications Though Internet...
 
Tags: internet, assessment, security assessment, security, security flaws, flaws, internet technology, internet operations community, protocols
 
 
 
 
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Learn from the latest Internet Security Threat Report update

2008-04-17 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
...Internet Security Threat Report Volume XIII. This newly released issue covers the six-month period from July 1 to December 31, 2007 This webcast summary of the Internet Security Threat Report will Provide a six month update of worldwide Internet threat activity, including analysis of network-based attacks, a review of known vulnerabilities,...
 
Tags: webcast, webcast summary, malicious code reports, malicious code, free webcast, trends, current trends, data, internet threat data
 
 
 
 
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Transport-Fi: Wired Reviews Air-Fi; Buses Break out the Internet

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2008-06-12 10:22:29 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Internet has been promised "for at least four years now." It wasn't promised. It was delivered with Boeing's Connexion, which turned out to be too expensive, too heavy, too slow (relatively), and timed wrong for the industry. The latest wave hasn't been promised for very long, unless you count OnAir, which was promising mobile telephony and...
 
Tags: connexion service, service, sidewalk-pickup boltbus service, access, cost roughly, internet access, roughly, cost, bus
 
 
 
 
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University of Iowa inadvertently posts personal data to the Internet

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2008-01-15 11:25:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Internet. The file was exposed for several months before an external party alerted the university of the breach Reference URL The Des Moines Register Story KCRG - TV News Story Report Credit Erin Jordan, Register Iowa City Bureau Response From the online sources cited above The University of Iowa is alerting 216 former students that their...
 
Tags: university, information security risk, information, iowa, sensitive personal information, social security, internet, breach description, financial information
 
 
 
 
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Internet Down?

2008-01-22 14:15:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Internet Went Down...and Didn't Come Back Up The Internet Is Down -- Now What? " Papers like that help put system and network security in the right context: if your business will run just fine even after losing your IT, your connectivity and all your data (e.g. you are a lemonade stand! :-)) than it is OK to fire that security manager :-) If...
 
Tags: internet, business, security manager, typical business, security, network security, non-web-centric business, businesses, online businesses
 
 
 
 
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Proxy Caches are a Challenging Threat to Internet Security

2008-10-05 10:41:52 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Internet. However, developers do have control of the code they write and their admin teams have configuration control of their web servers. Developers must assume the worst case Internet scenario with aggressive Internet cache management policies that serve cached data for economic and performance reasons As a consequence, this fact-of-life...
 
Tags: proxy caches, security, web developers, developers, internet, application developers, security flaws similar, session management code, code
 
 
 
 
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Download: Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis

2007-11-30 16:01:00 by jrjones in