Your Rights Online Stories for 2011

How the Year Looked On Slashdot 161
Actual Damages For 1 Download = Cost of a 1 License 647
EA, Nintendo, Sony Quietly Withdraw SOPA Support 204
Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism? 315
Running Great Britain? There's an App For That! 165
Doctorow: the Coming War On General-Purpose Computing 439
Warrantless Wiretapping Decisions Issued By Ninth Circuit Court 156
UK Ministry of Defense Improves War Games For Console Generation 102
Court Rules Website Immune From Suit For Defamatory Posting 171
TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas 338
Wikipedia To Dump GoDaddy Over SOPA 197
Researchers Demo New GSM Attacks at Chaos Communications Congress 17
How a Gesture Could Get Your Google+ Profile Picture Yanked 262
FDA Backtracks On Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Proposal 172
Rackspace: SOPA "Is a Deeply Flawed Piece of Legislation" 213
Summary of the M-Edge Vs. Amazon Lawsuit 61
Data Exposed In Stratfor Compromise Analyzed 141
Apple Fined By Italy For Misleading Customers About Warranty Terms 218
IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent 455
Auction of Copyright Troll Righthaven's Website Underway 63
What Life Was Like Inside the Hexagon Project 104
The GoDaddy Saga Continues 203
Techrights Recommends An Apple Boycott 542
GnuPG Short ID Collision Has Occurred. 110
China's Parallel Online Universe 173
Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark 227
Israeli Spyware Sold To Iran 164
LAPD Surveillance Cameras Go Unused 106
Android Approved By Pentagon 160
Anonymous Hacks US Think Tank Stratfor 356
Amazon Patents Deducing Religion From Gift Wrap 164
US Federal Reserve Data On Loans During Crisis Released 173
Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters 180
Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity 294
Go Daddy Reverses Course On SOPA 330
Inside Obama's Twitter Blitz On the Payroll Tax 294
EFF Reverse Engineers Carrier IQ 103
GoDaddy Backs SOPA 353
USTR Publishes Rogue Sites List 82
ORNL's Newest Petaflop Climate Computer To Come Online For NOAA 66
Chinese Developer Forum Leaks 6 Million User Credentials 102
Spanish Court Rules In Favor of P2P Engineer 365
ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent 141
China Now Top Patent Filer 135
Domestic Surveillance Drones On the Rise 96
Senators Recommend FTC Perform Antitrust Investigation Of Google 315
Coders Develop Ways To Defeat SOPA Censorship 449
US Asks Scientists To Censor Reports To Prevent Terrorism 273
Australian Government Bans New Syndicate Game 115
Apple Patents Using Apps During Calls 434
Sony Sued Over PSN 'No Suing' Provision 384
X-Men Origins Pirate Draws a 1-Year Sentence 341
Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones? 189
Denver Must Prove Red-Light Cameras Improve Safety 433
Ready For Your Payroll Software Update? 105
Victory For Irish File Sharers Dashed By Government Report 77
Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? 601
FBI Cybercrime Director Comments On Hacktivism 254
Law Professors On SOPA and PIPA: Don't Break the Internet 283
Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws 209
Moxie Marlinspike Answers Your Questions 76
Man Changes Name to "Mark Zuckerberg" After Facebook Sues Him 113
BT Sues Google Over Android 214
In Australia, Even Private Facebook Photos Are Public 71
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 518
Why Google Is Disabling Kids' Gmail Accounts 228
SOPA Creator In TV/Film/Music Industry's Pocket 345
Google Outlines AI-Based Number Reading For Street View Photos 68
Munich's Move To Linux Exceeds Target 235
Kazakhstan Disables the Internet , Telecomix Restores 156
How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest? 238
YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video 220
Belgium Anti-Piracy Group Expands Attack On Access To the Pirate Bay 159
Novell's WordPerfect Antitrust Suit Ends In Mistrial 98
No SOPA Vote Until 2012 181
FCC Pays $100K To Open Source Apps Challenge Winner 15
Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones 156
Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny 477
Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother 191
Google Deal Allegedly Lets UMG Wipe YouTube Videos It Doesn't Own 392
Judge Dismisses Twitter Stalking Case 51
The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011 292
Running Tor On Your TV 80
Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones 1003
Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? 514
Meet the Strange Bedfellows Who Could Stop SOPA 231
At Universal's Request, YouTube Yanks News Podcast Over Music Snippet 287
Oracle Sued For 'Extortion, Lies' By Montclair State University 359
Should Social Media Affect Your Creditworthiness? 344
E-Crime Police Raid Melbourne Newspaper 52
Feds Arrest GeneSimmons.Com Attacker 180
Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent 121
US Bans Loud Commercials 289
Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" 543
Amazon Granted Location Tracking Patent 68
Sony, Universal and Fox Caught Pirating Through BitTorrent 284
Wikipedia Debates Strike Over SOPA 175
Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog 590
Carrier IQ Responds To FBI Drama, EFF Wants More Information 140
24-Year-Old Asks Facebook For His Data, Gets 1,200 PDFs 291
Judge Dismisses 'Other OS' Class-Action Suit Against Sony 403
NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers 938
Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone 663
Publicly Available Russian Election Results Hint At Fraud 304
EU Regulators Delay Google's Motorola Buy, Seeking More Info 45
House Panel Moving Forward With SOPA 206
FBI Rejects Freedom of Information Act Request About Carrier IQ 156
Predator Drone Helps Nab Cattle Rustlers 214
Site Offers History of Torrent Downloads By IP 340
The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels 448
Verizon Tech Charged In $4.5M Equipment Scam 104
German Court Issues Injunction Against iPhone & iPad 349
Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials 145
LightSquared Disrupts 75% of GPS Connections In Government Test 197
Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case 129
Two SOPA Writers Become Entertainment Lobbyists 171
Apple Transfers Patents Through Shell Company To Sue All Phone Makers 422
Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict 423
Pop Artists Support Megaupload; Universal Censors 255
Royalty-Free MPEG Video Proposals Announced 108
Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers 187
TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts 493
Apple Loses Tablet Battle In Australia 159
EU Moves To End Surveillance Tech Sales To Repressive Regimes 132
Microsoft Can Remotely Kill Purchased Apps 389
Draft Alternative To SOPA Released 170
IBM Watson To Battle Patent Trolls 93
Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess 231
Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets 125
Feds Return Mistakenly Seized Domain 243
GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales 344
Big Brother In the Home Office 298
Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules 353
Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? 332
Supreme Court Legitimizing Medical Patents? 251
Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law 516
Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy 451
EFF Asks To Make Jailbreaking Legal For All Devices 278
Facebook Tells India It Won't Help Censor the Web 168
RIM Gives Up After Losing Initial Battle Over BBX Trademark 90
Lawmaker Proposes Cyberthreat Sharing Group 41
India Moves To Censor Social Media 171
US Launches Virtual Embassy For Iran 174
Facebook Flaw Exposed Private Photos 201
EU Targets Apple In Ebook Investigation 99
Indian Minister Seeks To Censor User-Generated Content Online 82
Scammers Work Around Two-Factor Authentication With Social Engineering 186
Google To Seek Dismissal of Suit Against Google Books 240
Researchers Say Carrier IQ Isn't Logging Data, Texts 130
How To Avoid Infringing On Apple's Patents 323
IT Pros Can't Resist Peeking At Privileged Info 388
New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication 164
Assange Wins Right To Submit Appeal 144
Senator Uses FCC Nomination Process To Question National Wireless Network 101
Ticketmaster Customers, Get Ready For Your (Tiny) Class-Action Payout 140
USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service 713
China Telecom Companies Pledge To Stop Monopolistic Practices 68
Browser History Sniffing Is Back 161
Feds Seize Korean Movie Download Portals 215
Russian Websites Critical of Elections Targeted In DDoS Attack 156
Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone 522
Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? 848
Syria Bans iPhone, Protest App 69
An Easy Way To Curb Smart-Phone Thieves, In Australia 234
Apple Can't Block US Sales of Samsung Devices 213
Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network 300
Carrier IQ Drama Continues 244
Fed Gave Banks Eye-Popping Emergency Loans, Without Telling Congress 629
Interpreting the Constitution In the Digital Era 144
Europe Accuses Google of Monopoly Abuse 211
Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal 463
Domain Theft-for-Ransom Hits css-tricks.com and Others 147
San Francisco Team Wins DARPA's De-Shredding Contest 94
How Tech Vendors Help Governments Spy On Their Citizens 102
Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? 517
Patriot Act Clouds Picture For Tech 203
US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers 1167
UK Recruiting Codebreakers Via Social Networks 85
Tracking Censorship Through Copyright Proposals Worldwide 34
Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? 861
WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study 96
Carrier IQ Software May Be in iOS, Too 234
Italian Court Rules Web Editors Not Responsible For Comments 72
Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks 529
Patent Expires On Best Selling Drug of All Time 491
China Wants Cyber Crisis Hotline 58
News Corp. Hacking Scandal Spreads To Government 105
Attackers Leak UN Usernames and Passwords 48
UK Announces "Cyber Strategy" 56
Google Throws /. Under Bus To Snag Patent 584
Android Dev Demonstrates CarrierIQ Phone Logging Software On Video 322
Australian Federal Court Ends Ban On Samsung Galaxy Tab Sales 129
Obama Orders Federal Agencies To Digitize All Records 186
Civilian Use of Drone Aircraft May Soon Fly In the US 196
Behind the Government's Rules of Cyber War 117
Judge Orders Hundreds of Websites Delisted From Search Engines, Social Networks 308
Facebook Settles With FTC, Admits Privacy Violations 138
EU Court Adviser Says Software Ideas Can't Be Copyrighted 196
Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? 253
Facebook Denies Disputed Page To Both Mercks 210
Merck Threatens Merck With Legal Action Over Facebook URL 115
Battlefield 3 Banned In Iran 248
EU Targets Facebook's Ad System 170
Internet Monitoring: Who Watches the Watchers? 75
New Jersey DMV Employees Caught Selling Identities 279
Australian ISP's To Crack Down On Piracy 108
UK ISP Disconnecting Filesharers 106
AT&T Customer Phone Hacking Tied To Terrorists 39
California Going Ahead With Bullet Train 709
15 Years In Jail For Clicking 'Like' 449
China To Cancel College Majors That Don't Pay 463
Palantir, the War On Terror's Secret Weapon 276
US Gov't Seizes 130+ More Domains In Crackdown 219
Wounded Copyright Troll Still Alive and Kicking 44
Valve's Gabe Newell On Piracy: It's Not a Pricing Problem 466
IPCom Trying To Ban HTC's 3G Phone Sales In Germany 35
In Australia, Immunize Or Lose Benefits 680
Senator Wants 'Terrorist' Label On Blogs 370
Ubisoft Blames Piracy For Non-Release of PC Game 424
iTunes Flaw Allowed Spying On Dissidents 82
FBI Scolds NASDAQ Over Out of Date Patches 66
Robots To Patrol South Korean Prisons 113
The Sports Footage You Won't See Today On TV 277
Dutch Government Officially Trusts OpenVPN-NL 53
Carrier IQ Relents, Apologizes 78
Lego Bible Too Racy For Sam's Club 484
EU Court: ISPs Can't Be Forced To Monitor All Traffic 67
4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook 216
OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k 234
Malls Track Shoppers' Cell Phones On Black Friday 198
Ask Slashdot: Data Remanence Solutions? 209
Ask Hacker and Security Gadfly Moxie Marlinspike 70
US Government Probes Huawei and ZTE 122
Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial 472
88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA 757
Small OSS Library Project Battles US Corporation 118
Doom 3 Source Released 187
AT&T/T-Mobile Merger 'Not In the Public Interest' 190
The Future of Protest In Panopticon Nation 566
Hosting Services May Be Breaking Syrian Sanctions 106
South Africa Passes Secrecy Bill, Makes Whistleblowing a Dangerous Act 118
Users' Data Target Of 'Targeted Attack' on AT&T 28
Viacom's SOPA/PIPA Pitch Video, Annotated 177
Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree 954
ITC Rules Apple Does Not Infringe S3 Graphics Patents 81
Australian Copyright Troll Rumored To Have Shut Down 67
Are There Any Smartphones That Respect Privacy? 478
Bradley Manning's Court Date Finally Set 523
Recycled Medical Records Used As Scrap Paper At Elementary School 119
Afghanistan Biometric Data Given To US 108

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