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Submission + - Mega Defends its Security Practices (freezenet.ca)

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @09:24PM

Dangerous_Minds writes: Recently, Slashdot posted about how cloud storage company Mega was "riddled" with security holes. Freezenet points out that Mega has issued a response to some of these criticisms including one which criticized its use of SSL. Mega responded saying that if you could break SSL, you could break things much more interesting than Mega.

Submission + - Study: Anti-Circumvention Laws Excessively Favors the Content Industries

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @02:42AM

Dangerous_Minds writes: On the heals of reports saying that Canada and Europe are close to finishing the negotiations of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a recently published study says that anti-circumvention rules for TPMs "excessively favours the content industries". The study examined laws in the US and Europe and reviewed several cases revolving around TPMs. It was aimed at making recommendations to the Chinese government in regards to possible copyright law reform saying that anti-circumvention laws should take a balanced approach so as to encourage content creators to create new content while allowing interoperability to allow consumers to enjoy content legally as well as allow innovation in related industries.

Submission + - New Mega Website Experiences Mega Traffic Surge (freezenet.ca)

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds on Saturday January 19, 2013 @05:53PM

Dangerous_Minds writes: Earlier today, Slashdot posted a series of reviews on the launch of the new Mega website. With all this attention from many including the media, it may not be a surprise that the website experienced a surge in traffic on launch. In fact, the surge was so great, it temporarily brought down the website. Kim Dotcom, the founder of the new website wasn't complaining though. He commented that the website managed to eat up 10GB in 10 minutes on launch and the servers experienced maximum capacity when the site got 250,000 registrations. The team behind Mega is currently working to balance the traffic load across multiple servers.

Submission + - New Zealand Three Strikes Law to Be Tested (freezenet.ca)

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds on Friday January 11, 2013 @01:34AM

Dangerous_Minds writes: Next month, tribunals will begin for the first people receiving their third strikes in the New Zealand "Three Strikes Law". In all, 11 people will have their cases heard including one who said that her connection was used without her knowledge. Freezenet notes that there has been a long history of controversy for the law from the Internet blackout protests of 2008 to the cablegate leak which revealed that the law was financed and pushed by the United States.

Comment I'm Guessing that... (Score 1, Funny) 236

by Dangerous_Minds on Sunday October 14, 2012 @02:41AM (#41647363) Attached to: US Navy Cruiser and Submarine Collide

...someone in the US Navy is in a world of ship.

Comment Spamming Propaganda (Score 0) 164

by Dangerous_Minds on Monday August 27, 2012 @02:48AM (#41134537) Attached to: Russia's Former KGB Invests In Political Propaganda Spambots

Isn't this sorta like what's going on in the US with the Tea Party?

Submission + - Organization Crowdsourcing Bounty Funds for the Leaking of the TPP (zeropaid.com)

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @02:40PM

Dangerous_Minds writes: An organization called Just Foreign Policy has created a website devoted to a pool of user contributed pledge money to be rewarded to Wikileaks should it publish the full text of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). ZeroPaid notes that the campaign has raised over $17,000 in pledge money to date and that the organization has tried to prove itself to be a legitimate organization through a page on Guide Star.

Submission + - Green Party Releases International Joint Statement Criticising the TPP (zeropaid.com)

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds on Monday August 20, 2012 @02:01PM

Dangerous_Minds writes: ZeroPaid is reporting that the New Zealand, Australian and Canadian Green Party have released a joint statement on the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP). Among the concerns are the secretive nature of the talks and "could hinder access to safe, affordable medicines, weaken local content rules for media, stifle high-tech innovation, and even restrict the ability of future governments to legislate for the good of public health and the environment." ZeroPaid also notes that the statement is starting to appear in New Zealand and Australian media.

Comment Unblinking Eye (Score 1) 150

by Dangerous_Minds on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @02:51PM (#40999909) Attached to: Grumman Building Football Field-Sized Robotic Surveillance Blimp

"to fly at speeds between 30 and 80 knots without ceasing for 21 straight days while providing an 'unblinking' eye of surveillance"

So, by day 22, will there be the paddling of the swollen rump before I get to be a member of the surveillance Stonecutters?

Submission + - Running 16 Bit Windows Applications on 64 Bit Operating Systems (zeropaid.com)

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @02:59PM

Dangerous_Minds writes: ZeroPaid has recently posted a guide on how to get 16 bit Windows video games and applications running again on 64 bit operating systems. While the guide is directed at video games running on Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit), it could possibly be used on just about any operating system. The difficulty in running these particular applications is the fact that you need the Windows environment to run (not just Dosbox). The guide also points out that if you are running at some of the higher resolutions, the memory footprint of this concept is only about 100k. What 16 bit applications do you remember toying with back in the day?

Submission + - Leap Second Crashes The Pirate Bay (zeropaid.com) 1

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds on Saturday June 30, 2012 @10:00PM

Dangerous_Minds writes: Some were concerned about the leap second causing havoc on many websites. It seems that the leap second was the cause of the recent downtime of Swedish BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay. ZeroPaid has been watching the story closely, debunking the various theories circulating including a DDOS attack or a brand new raid. A staff member of The Pirate Bay confirmed that this was the cause of the outage, however, it is unclear when the site will be back up.

Submission + - The Pirate Bay Goes Down For Unknown Reasons (zeropaid.com) 1

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds on Saturday June 30, 2012 @07:46PM

Dangerous_Minds writes: ZeroPaid is covering the current downtime of Swedish BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay. ZeroPaid has pinged both the domain name and server IP address, but both were unsuccessful, leading to the conclusion that it's unlikely a DNS issue. While some theories were cast aside including a DDOS attack by the person who previously took the site down, it still remains unclear why the site is down this time.

Comment Why Not Talk About Real Threats to the Internet? (Score 3, Informative) 326

by Dangerous_Minds on Monday June 18, 2012 @12:23PM (#40360205) Attached to: The U.N.'s Push for Power Over the Internet

Like the Trans-pacific Partnership for instance?

Submission + - TPP Leaks Again - Investment Chapter Makes Fresh Revelations (zeropaid.com)

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds on Thursday June 14, 2012 @03:48AM

Dangerous_Minds writes: ZeroPaid alerts us to a brand new leak from the secretive TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership). The leak shows that the TPP contains the framework for an entire tribunal system for corporations to use separate from a domestic court system. It also requires countries to provide more rights to corporate entities and allows corporate entities to sue the government if their rights afforded by these new rules are not met. In essence, if TPP is ratified as-is, it looks like corporations will be permitted to operate by their own rules — literally.

Submission + - Could Selling Your Computer One Day Be a Criminal Offense? (zeropaid.com)

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @03:01PM

Dangerous_Minds writes: The Atlantic is reporting that the Supreme Court will decide later this year whether or not re-selling a product that is manufactured outside the US could be a violation of copyright law. Apparently, a lower court ruled that this would be a violation of copyright law due to the wording of first-sale doctrine. Demand Progress is not happy about this saying that sites like Craigslist and eBay will be undermined should the Supreme Court agree with the lower court ruling. ZeroPaid is wondering: if the Supreme Court agrees with the lower courts ruling and the TPP is later ratified, could that mean that selling things like your personal computer one day be a criminal offense?

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