Your Rights Online Stories for 2013

The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech 96
No Question: Snowden Was 2013's Most Influential Tech Figure 108
Public Domain Day 2014 225
The Hobbit and Game of Thrones Top Most Pirated Lists of 2013 193
Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations 316
USA Today Names Edward Snowden Tech Person of the Year 228
The Japanese Mob Is Hiring Homeless People To Clean Up Fukushima 90
Feds Announce Test Sites For Drone Aircraft 78
The Startling Array of Hacking Tools In NSA's Armory 215
USB Sticks Used In Robbery of ATMs 252
Former CIA/NSA Head: NSA Is "Infinitely" Weaker As a Result of Snowden's Leaks 572
Hacker Took Over BBC Server, Tried To Sell Access On Christmas Day 41
Unintended Consequences: How NSA Revelations May Lead To Even More Surveillance 207
Citizen Science: Who Makes the Rules? 189
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Implement Wave Protocol Self Hosted? 112
Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze 139
Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog 259
Snapchat Users' Phone Numbers Exposed To Hackers 69
Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison 233
Ask Slashdot: Getting an Uncooperative Website To Delete One's Account? 171
How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes 60
NSA's Legal Win Introduces a Lot of Online Insecurity 239
France's 'Culture Tax' Could Hit YouTube and Facebook 314
Sherlock Holmes Finally In the Public Domain In the US 207
US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal 511
Apple Again Seeks Ban On 20+ Samsung Devices In US 235
Battlefield 4 Banned In China 380
NSA Drowns In Useless Data, Impeding Work, Former Employee Claims 120
Millions of Dogecoin Stolen Over Christmas 132
Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy 579
Houston Expands Downtown Surveillance, Unsure If It Helps 60
US Internet Service In 2014: Net Neutrality Challenges and High-Speed Build-Outs 73
Year In Communications: NSA Revelations Overshadow Communications Breakthroughs 61
Could an Erasable Internet Kill Google? 210
60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out 944
E-Books That Read You 120
Snowden Gives Alternative Christmas Message On Channel 4 224
Google Sues Consortium Backed By Apple and Microsoft to Protect Android 150
Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target? 68
Italy Approves 'Google Tax' On Internet Companies 236
Don't Expect US Approval of Huge Telecom Mergers 64
Upload a Spoof Video, Go To Jail (In Dubai) 107
Snowden Says His Mission Is Accomplished 312
Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back 243
The iOS 7 Jailbreak Fiasco 210
Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? 469
Alan Turing Pardoned 415
Researchers Connect 91% of Numbers With Names In Metadata Probe 84
Member of President Obama's NSA Panel Recommends Increased Data Collection 349
RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money 291
UK Govt's Censorware Blocks Tech, Civil Liberties Websites 148
FBI's Secret Interrogation Manual: Now At the Library of Congress 102
Privacy Advocate Jacob Appelbaum Reports Break-In Of Berlin Apartment 194
Canadian Spy Agencies Deliberately Misled Courts 62
Overstock.com Plans To Accept Bitcoin 202
Obamacare and Middle-Wheel-Wheelbarrows 199
Verizon and AT&T Join the 'Transparency Report' Club 37
Ask Slashdot: Can Commercial Hardware Routers Be Trusted? 213
DoD Public Domain Archive To Be Privatized, Locked Up For 10 Years 183
Putting a Panic Button In Smartphone Users' Hands 175
90 Percent of Businesses Say IP Is "Not Important" 185
How Asimov's Three Laws Ran Out of Steam 153
Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA 464
Data Broker Medbase200 Sold Lists of Rape & Domestic Violence Victims 168
NSA Metadata Collection Program Has Stopped Zero Attacks 199
DHS Turns To Unpaid Interns For Nation's Cyber Security 174
It's Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car 201
BitTorrent Unveils Secure Chat To Counter 'NSA Dragnet Surveillance' 111
Proposed California Law Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switch 252
Free Software Foundation Endorses a "Truly Free" Laptop 340
UN Votes To Protect Privacy In Digital Age 124
CryptoLocker Gang Earns $30 Million In Just 100 Days 202
US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil 439
Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire 691
Inside Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit 72
UK ISP Adult Filters Block Sex Education Websites Allows Access To Porn 227
Panel Urges Major NSA Spying Overhaul 242
Target Has Major Credit Card Breach 191
The FBI's Giant Bitcoin Wallet 177
How a MacBook Camera Can Spy Without Lighting Up 371
Tesla Gets $34 Million Tax Break, Adds Capacity For 35,000 More Cars 238
Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests 562
Google Joins the Open Invention Network Board 22
Academics Should Not Remain Silent On Government Hacking 135
Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use 547
Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA 312
Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality 366
Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov 214
Red Light Camera Use Declined In 2013 For the First Time 348
NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware 698
Google Seeks To Throw Out UK Safari Tracking Suit 70
Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional 345
FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps 160
Disney Pulls a Reverse Santa, Takes Back Christmas Shows From Amazon Customers 418
Facebook Tracks the Status Updates and Messages You Don't Write Too 163
CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying 504
Norway Rejects Bitcoin As Currency; Taxes As Asset, Instead 245
NZ Developers Win 'Koha' Trademark Case 26
US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month 1146
France Broadens Surveillance Powers; Wider Scope Than NSA 169
Former Google Lawyer Michelle Lee To Run US Patent Office 91
How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School 894
NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove 383
Indiana State Police Acknowledge Use of Cell Phone Tracking Device 155
Boston Police Stop Scanning Registration Plates, For Now 110
Investor Lawsuit Blames NSA For $12B Loss In IBM Value 204
Why the NSA Piggybacks On Consumer Tracking 62
NSA Able To Crack A5/1 Cellphone Crypto 122
UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game 598
Some Londoners Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Take Fiber 184
North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet 276
Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft 174
Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes 513
NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata 509
Australia's National Broadband Network Downgraded 122
Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional 324
Was Julian Assange Involved With Wiretapping Iceland's Parliament? 167
Cybercrime Marketplace Mastermind Faces 18 Years In Prison 59
Bitcoin Token Maker Suspends Operation After Hearing From Federal Gov't 258
Indian Government Lifts Nokia's Asset Freeze, Factory Can Transfer To Microsoft 53
Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' 275
Estonia Sharing Its Finnish-Made E-Government Solution With Finland 83
EU Advocate General Says EU Data Retention Directive Unlawful 22
Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts 370
NZ Traveler's Electronics Taken At Airport; Interest in Snowden to Blame? 453
Soviet Union Spent $1 Billion On "Psychotronic" Arms Race With the US 230
Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn 192
Switzerland Wants To Become the World's Data Vault 131
Decades-Old Rambus Litigation Against Micron For RDRAM Tech Reaches Settlement 82
A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked? 288
Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery 226
Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It 208
Google Fiber In Austin Hits a Snag: Incumbent AT&T 291
California Man Arrested for Running 'Revenge Porn' Website 252
Pirate Bay Founder Warg Being Held in Solitary Confinement 192
Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters 151
NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking 174
High-Frequency Trading For Your Private Data 75
JPMorgan Files Patent Application On 'Bitcoin Killer' 292
Open Source 'Wasn't Available' Two Years Ago, Says UK Gov't IT Project Chief 113
British Police Censor the Global Internet 228
3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate 414
Twitter Will Track Your Browsing To Sell Ads 120
US Treasury Completes Bailout of General Motors 425
Snowden Document Shows Canada Set Up Spy Posts For NSA 177
Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments 1251
EU Warns Nokia Not To Become a Patent Troll 78
NSA Collect Gamers' Chats and Deploy Real-Life Agents Into WoW and Second Life 293
Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Yahoo Form Alliance Against NSA 293
Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA 841
Meet Paunch: the Accused Author of the BlackHole Exploit Kit 52
US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry 466
Insight On FBI Hacking Ops 137
Facebook Patents Inferring Income of Users 129
German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent 192
About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors 157
After FDA Objections, 23andMe Won't Offer Health Information 146
Trans-Pacific Partnership Includes Unwanted Elements of SOPA 129
Supreme Court To Review Software Patents 115
FTC Drops the Hammer On Maker of Location-Sharing Flashlight App 187
Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In 306
German Court: Open Source Project Liable For 3rd Party DRM-Busting Coding 178
Patent Troll Bill Clears House With Huge Majority 138
Ask TechFreedom's Berin Szoka About Govt. Policy and Privacy Online 29
Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead 923
Microsoft's NSA 'Transparency' Push Remains Pretty Opaque 90
eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 225
NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide 256
China Bans Financial Companies From Bitcoin Transactions 110
Tech Companies Set To Appeal 2012 Oracle Vs. Google Ruling 198
Medical Radioactive Material Truck Stolen In Mexico 98
FCC Chair: It's Ok For ISPs To Discriminate Traffic 365
Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So 462
Fearing Government Surveillance, US Journalists Are Self-Censoring 376
EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet 1010
Hotfile Settles With MPAA, Drops Countersuit Against Warner Bros 88
Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute 562
App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music 392
Australian Defense Scientists Plagiarizing Trade Secrets 60
Patent Battle May Loom Over 'Copenhagen Wheel' Electric Bike 152
Swarm Mobile's Offer: Free Wi-Fi In Exchange For Some Privacy 121
Tesla Faces Off Against Car Dealers In Another State: Ohio 214
How Much Is Oracle To Blame For Healthcare IT Woes? 275
Is GWU Econ Prof. Nick Szabo Satoshi Nakamoto? 120
Australian Spy Agency Offered To Share Data About Ordinary Citizens 78
Copyright Takedown Requests to Google Doubled In 2013 117
Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons 641
Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes 293
RMS Calls For "Truly Anonymous" Payment Alternative To Bitcoin 287
Bitcoin Thefts Surge, DDoS Hackers Take Millions 305
White House Calls On Kids To Film High-Tech Education 95
A Review of the "Mental Illness" Definition Might Prevent Crime 260
Piracy Offers Heavy Metal a New Business Model 246
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy When It's Out of Your Control? 174
Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well 644
No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either 845
The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? 582
Snowden Document Says Dutch Secret Service Hacks Internet Forums 162
Encrypted Social Network Vies For Disgruntled Facebook Users 162
Woman Fined For Bad Review Striking Back In Court 249
French Court Orders Search Engines, ISPs To Block Pirate Sites 75
Unpublished J. D. Salinger Stories Leaked On Bittorrent Site 218
Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself Using Tor 123
Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records 784
Creative Commons Launches Version 4.0 of Its Licenses 47
US Military Settles Software Piracy Claims For $50M 127
Code.org Wants Participating Students' Data For 7 Years 90
FOIA: NSA Contracts Stored In Paper Files, Unsearchable, Unindexed 114
UK Gov't Plans To Censor "Extremist" Websites Via Orders To ISPs 208
Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes 537
Free Software Foundation Announces 2013 Holiday Giving Guide 104
Death and the NSA: A Q&A With Bruce Schneier 149
NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits 415
European Commission Outlines Steps To Restore Trust In EU-US Data Flows 75
Intelligence Officials Fear Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache 381
Jury Finds Newegg Infringed Patent, Owes $2.3 Million 324
Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font 312
Why Scott Adams Wished Death On His Dad 961
Washington Post: Assange 'Unlikely To Be Prosecuted In US' 236
US Working To Kill UN Privacy Resolutions 197
Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing 670
LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers 144
Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality 494
Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries 730
Singapore & South Korea Help NSA Tap Undersea Cables 137
Image Lifted From Twitter Leads to $1.2M Payout For Haitian Photog 242
Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto 172
NYT: Healthcare.gov Project Chaos Due Partly To Unorthodox Database Choice 334
Twitter Implements Forward Secrecy For Connections 38
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy These Days? Or Do You? 319
NSA Infected 50,000 Computer Networks With Malicious Software 264
Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK 195
Tor Now Comes In a Box 150
Samsung Ordered To Pay Apple $290M In Patent Case 219
NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating 284
Sweden Will Deliver Pirate Bay Co-Founder To Denmark 56
Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) 276
Researcher Offers New Perspective On Stuxnet-Wielding Sabotage Program 46
Microsoft Customers Hit With New Wave of Fake Tech Support Calls 201
HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who 203
Glut In Stolen Identities Forces Price Cut 152
Students Tracked In UK College Via RFID For 1-3 Years 64
Vint Cerf Thinks Privacy May Be an Anomaly 145
Software Patent Reform Stalls Thanks To IBM and Microsoft Lobbying 239
Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood 783
Warner Bros. Admits To Issuing Bogus Takedowns 199
Chinese Gov't To Tighten Internet Controls Even Further 162
User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits 286
Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS 409
How Perl and R Reveal the United States' Isolation In the TPP Negotiations 152

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