The Internet Stories for 2011

EA, Nintendo, Sony Quietly Withdraw SOPA Support 204
Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism? 315
New Group Paves Way For 2012 Online Primary 249
Wikipedia To Dump GoDaddy Over SOPA 197
No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 233
Imgur.com: Why We Dumped GoDaddy 279
Rackspace: SOPA "Is a Deeply Flawed Piece of Legislation" 213
PR Firm Unwisely Tangles With Penny Arcade 419
The GoDaddy Saga Continues 203
Boxee 1.5 Will Be the Last Supported Desktop Version 113
Researchers Build TCP-Based Spam Detection 81
Go Daddy Loses Over 21,000 Domains In One Day 356
Google and Mozilla: Partners, Not Competitors 151
What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? 361
Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider? 375
Mozilla's 3 Big Bets To Keep the Web Open 88
Go Daddy Reverses Course On SOPA 330
GoDaddy Backs SOPA 353
Average Web Page Approaches 1MB 319
Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com 630
Bell Canada To Stop Internet Throttling 159
Bon Jovi Says He's Not Dead 7
Coders Develop Ways To Defeat SOPA Censorship 449
Kim Jong-Il Was an "Internet Expert" 238
Victory For Irish File Sharers Dashed By Government Report 77
Law Professors On SOPA and PIPA: Don't Break the Internet 283
Why Google Is Disabling Kids' Gmail Accounts 228
Kazakhstan Disables the Internet , Telecomix Restores 156
Belgium Anti-Piracy Group Expands Attack On Access To the Pirate Bay 159
DynDNS Cuts Back Free DNS Options 223
No SOPA Vote Until 2012 181
New Standard For Issuance of SSL/TLS Certificates 62
Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny 477
Running Tor On Your TV 80
A Quarter of the EU Has Never Used the Web 392
Louis CK's Internet Experiment Pays Off 309
Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog 590
Facebook Launches Suicide-Prevention Effort 159
Adblock Plus Developers To Allow 'Acceptable' Ads 247
Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence 264
Site Offers History of Torrent Downloads By IP 340
Google Deploys IPv6 For Internal Network 260
Google, Facebook Upset By Ad-Injecting Apps 282
Feds Return Mistakenly Seized Domain 243
OpenDNS Releases DNS Encryption Tool 94
Another Dutch CA Hacked 152
US Launches Virtual Embassy For Iran 174
Indian Minister Seeks To Censor User-Generated Content Online 82
Kaspersky Quits BSA Over SOPA Support 140
Russian Websites Critical of Elections Targeted In DDoS Attack 156
Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal 463
Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet 124
Domain Theft-for-Ransom Hits css-tricks.com and Others 147
Chrome Becoming World's Second Most Popular Web Browser 511
Web Usage-Based Billing On Its Way 397
Tracking Censorship Through Copyright Proposals Worldwide 34
Italian Court Rules Web Editors Not Responsible For Comments 72
E-Mail Can Reveal Your Friend Hierarchy 85
Judge Orders Hundreds of Websites Delisted From Search Engines, Social Networks 308
Internet Monitoring: Who Watches the Watchers? 75
US Gov't Seizes 130+ More Domains In Crackdown 219
Ask Hacker and Security Gadfly Moxie Marlinspike 70
Internet Water Army On the March 137
Google To Shutter Knol, Wave, Gears 218
Hosting Services May Be Breaking Syrian Sanctions 106
Viacom's SOPA/PIPA Pitch Video, Annotated 177
Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right 427
France To Tax the Internet To Pay For Music 209
Are SOPA Sponsors Violating SOPA Rules? Not So Fast, Says Ars Technica 115
Two Porn Companies Take ICANN and .xxx Registrar To Court 272
Occupy Flash? 507
Net Neutrality and Carrier Incentives To Invest 170
Potential 0-Day Vulnerability For BIND 9 187
BT Fiber Infrastructure Plans 'Fatal' To Competition 100
W3C Proposes Unified "Do Not Track" Privacy Standard 93
Canada CRTC Rules Against Usage Based Billing 117
Tor-Enabled Browser For the iPad, and Easy Tor Nodes on EC2 75
Report on Web-Surfing Speeds Finds Pervasive Throttling 189
Schools Buy .xxx Domains In Trademark Panic 231
The Privatization of Copyright Lawmaking 213
Warner Brothers: Automated Takedown Notices Hit Files That Weren't Ours 157
Brits Rejecting Superfast Broadband 247
DARPA Wants To Get Rid of Password Protection 205
Senate Set To Vote On the Repeal of Net Neutrality 345
FBI Takes Out $14M DNS Malware Operation 57
Comcast Begins Native IPv6 Deployment To End Users 326
ICANN Begins "Land Rush" For .XXX Web Domains 94
Obama To Veto Anti-Net-Neutrality Legislation 355
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Spammers You Know? 333
Brazilian ISPs Hit With Massive DNS Attack 85
RIAA Lawyer Complains DMCA May Need Revamp 303
Grant To Allow Khan Academy To Expand, Build a Physical School 92
Copyright Demands Push Largest European Usenet Provider Permanently Offline 199
SSL Certificate Authorities vs. Convergence, Perspectives 127
Honolulu Tops 2011 Digital Cities Survey 35
1st Strikes Issued Under New Zealand Anti-Piracy Laws 123
EU Parliment To Vote On ACTA Soon; Take Action Now 115
AWS Load Balancer Sends 2 Million Netflix API Reqs To Wrong Customer 58
Blue Coat Concedes Its Devices Operating in Syria 90
Four CAs Have Been Compromised Since June 87
Rural Broadband to Replace POTS As Beneficiary of US Gov't Subsidies 208
Samsung's Solar-Powered Internet School 32
China Detains Internet Users For Spreading Rumors 89
Concerns Over Google Modifying SSL Behavior 130
Vint Cerf Answers Your Questions About IPv6 and More 150
Netflix Expanding Streaming Service to The UK and Ireland 78
Google Not Reciprocating On IFrame Usage? 115
Microsoft's Office365 Limits Emails To 500 Recipients 183
Anonymous Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites 481
A Digital Direct Democracy For the Modern Age 308
Researchers ID Skype, BitTorrent Users 180
China Says Its Internet Policies Are Open and Clear 181
MC Hammer Launches a Search Engine 124
Ask Internet Visionary and Pioneer Vint Cerf 109
Continuing the Distributed DNS System 77
Congressmen Worried About Amazon Silk Privacy Issues 148
Google Working To Launch Music Store Soon 66
Microsoft Finalizes Skype Acquisition 111
Rat Attack Causes Broadband Outage In Scotland 85
VeriSign Withdraws Domain-Suspension Proposal 48
Gate One 0.9 Released, Brings SSH To the Web 151
Vint Cerf: Media Tagging Can Be Disconcerting 96
Dutch ISP Files Police Complaint Against Spamhaus 218
Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? 301
Facebook: Your Personal Data is a Trade Secret 203
US Intelligence Mining Your Social Network Data 240
VeriSign Wants Ability To Suspend Domains Without Court Order 123
Opera Proposes Switching Browser Scrolling For 'Pages' 320
Father of SSL Talks Serious Security Turkey 74
Blue Coat Denies Its Devices Helping Syrian Gov't 73
UK ISPs To Begin Censorship of Porn Websites 186
US Government Seizes Email of WikiLeaks Volunteer 217
Amazon Pushes For National Internet Sales Tax 392
UN Bigwig: The Web Should Have Been Patented and Licensed 411
Belgian Court Order May Be Too Specific To Actually Block Pirate Bay Domain 140
ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' 173
Russian Telco MTS Bans Skype, Other VoIP Services 94
FCC Wants To Shift Phone Subsidy Funds To Broadband 211
Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database 433
Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada In the (Internet) Dark 282
Iran Blocks VPN Ports 134
Europeans Needed To Create Broadband Performance Measure 47
BT Promises 300Mbps FTTP By 2012 121
Facebook Confirms New Cookie-Tracking Issue 85
Telecomix Releases 54GB of Syrian Censorship Logs 51
Amazon Re-Opens Affiliate Program In California 107
Anti-Piracy PI Talks About Building Cases Against File-Sharers 109
Facebook Files For a Patent To Track Its Users On Other Sites 133
Verizon Challenges FCC's Net Neutrality Rules 179
Amazon Disables 3G Web Browsing For New 3G Kindle Touch 206
Canadian Court Finds Website Scraping Infringes Copyright 147
Amazon's Silk: SaaS Is Closing the Net 95
Ask Slashdot: Websites Friendly To eReader Browsers? 96
AT&T Starts Throttling Heavy Wireless Data Users 158
Mozilla Develops Gladius 3D Game Engine 112
Web Hosts — One-Stop-Shops For Mass Hacking? 70
State Dept. Employee Investigated For Linking To WikiLeaks 172
Australia's National Broadband Network Officially Open For Business 161
Dutch Usenet Provider Ordered To Remove Infringing Content 109
Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying 286
Free Press Sues FCC Over Discrepancy In Net Neutrality Rules 71
Amazon's New Silk Redefines Browser Tech 249
Book Review: Scalability Rules 54
SlideShare Ditches Flash, Rebuilds Site In HTML5 154
Global Internet Governance Fight Looms 155
Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior 80
Should College Go Online? 261
Why the BEAST Doesn't Threaten Tor Users 54
FCC Finalizes US Net Neutrality Rules 299
Italy Prepares '"One Strike" Anti-Piracy Law 219
Facebook Unveils Timeline, Updated Open Graph 98
Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History 230
Ask Slashdot: Best ccTLD To Avoid Confiscation? 241
Alcatel-Lucent Boosts Copper Broadband To 100Mbps 129
Comcast Launches Program For Low-Income Families 229
Feds Call Full-Tilt Poker a 'Global Ponzi Scheme' 436
Hackers Break Browser SSL/TLS Encryption 110
DigiNotar Goes Bankrupt After Hack 136
AT&T and Verizon LTE Networks Compared 116
Senators Slam Firm For Online Background Check 196
PETA To Launch Pornography Website 348
Mashing Up Multiple Web Services 59
CRTC Tells Rogers To Stop Throttling Online Gamers 118
ToS Violations No Longer a Crime (On Their Own) 162
Certificate Blunders May Mean the End For DigiNotar 128
The Google+ API Is Released 154
Ask Slashdot: Low-Cost Tools To Track Employees' Web Use? 384
UK Government Wants Google To Police Copyright 144
$300M To Save 6 Milliseconds 524
Why We Don't Need Gigabit Networks (Yet) 359
GlobalSign Web Server Hacked, But Not CA 35
Inside Netflix's WebKit-Based UI For TV Devices 39
How Killing the Internet Helped Revolutionaries 90
Apple Finally Removes DigiNotar Certs In Safari 149
App Enables Surfing Over SMS/MMS Through T-Mobile 149
Mozilla Asks All CAs To Audit Security Systems 77
IP Addresses Not Enough To ID Users 266
Moxie Marlinspike's Solution To the SSL CA Problem 189
Missouri Hedges On 'Teachers Can't Friend Students' Law 102
.XXX Domain Registrations Begins 140
Carol Bartz Is Out As Yahoo's CEO 200
(Possible) Diginotar Hacker Comes Forward 215
Porn-Industry Outsiders Fear 'Shakedown' In .XXX TLD 245
Rogue SSL Certs Issued For CIA, MI6, Mossad 152
.UK Registrar Offers To Let Police Close Domain 141
Google's Real Name Policy, Why You Are the Product 374
Facebook Testing Translate Feature For Comments? 91
Google To Shut Down 10 Products 167
Dutch Government Revokes Diginotar Certificates 78
JavaScript Toolkit V1.1.0 Released 65
China Calls For Even Firmer Internet Control 119
Canadian Court Sides With Online Anonymity 59
NYT Working On 'Magic Mirror' For Bathroom Surfing 138
Large Improvement in Graphene Photosensitivity Realized 71
Akamai Employee Tried To Sell Secrets To Israel 172
Google and OpenDNS Work On Global Internet Speedup 151
Diginotar Responds To Rogue Certificate Problem 177
Google Explores Re-Ranking Search Results Using +1 Button Data 126
Verizon Kills Free FTP Access 130
Another CA Issues False Certificates To Iran 229
Delivering Medicine By UAV 87
The Latest Web Browser Grand Prix 207
Low-Cost DIY Cell Network Runs On Solar 77
Fix For Apache DoS Bug In the Pipes 49
Celebrities Flock To Reserve .xxx Domains 148
Scientists Map Spiraling Light For Faster Net 62
China Removes Cyberwar Video, Denies Everything 179
The EFF Reflects On ICE Seizing a Tor Exit Node 252
Cybercrime Treaty Pushes Surveillance Worldwide 89
Why Nobody Wants You On OKCupid 473
Entrepreneur Makes Millions Selling Virtual Land 142
Can Google Save Us From Slow Internet 240
P2P Alarm Clock Service 107
WebAPI: Mozilla Proposes Open App Interface For Smartphones 62
The Syrian Government's Internet Strategy 45
Internet Restored In Tripoli As Rebels Take Control 271
GA Tech: Internet's Mid-Layers Vulnerable To Attack 166
Atari Targets Retro Community With Cease & Desist 219
Web Surfing At Work Can Boost Productivity 134
Former Wikileaks Spokesman Destroyed Documents 469
Verizon Employees End Strike 591
Argentina Censors Over a Million Blogs 170
Ask Slashdot: Best Wi-Fi Solution For a Hotel? 300
Microsoft Drops Use of 'Supercookies' On MSN 45
Google Highlights Trouble In Detecting Malware 84
Anti-Piracy Lawyers Accuse Blind Man of Downloading Films 302
Yahoo, Facebook Test "Six Degrees of Separation" 228
China Praises UK Internet Censorship Plan 355
Mozilla Firefox 6 Released Ahead of Schedule 415
Canadian Judge Rules Domain Names Are Property 142

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