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Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off His Wi-Fi 428

Scyth3 writes "A man is suing his neighbor for not turning off his cell phone or wireless router. He claims it affects his 'electromagnetic allergies,' and has resorted to being homeless. So, why doesn't he check into a hotel? Because hotels typically have wireless internet for free. I wonder if a tinfoil hat would help his cause?"
Privacy

Net Users In Belarus May Soon Have To Register 89

Cwix writes "A new law proposed in Belarus would require all net users and online publications to register with the state: 'Belarus' authoritarian leader is promising to toughen regulation of the Internet and its users in an apparent effort to exert control over the last fully free medium in the former Soviet state. He told journalists that a new Internet bill, proposed Tuesday, would require the registration and identification of all online publications and of each Web user, including visitors to Internet cafes. Web service providers would have to report this information to police, courts, and special services.'"

Comment Re:Name and Shame (Score 1) 539

With [hosting from home], did you install:

  • Fire detection and prevention (with a gas like FM2000)
  • A big heavy door to avoid any access
  • Anti-static electrical installation
  • An employee that can access your server and replace parts (that you'd have in stock) when you go in holiday

No I did not. Because what I host doesn't require that degree of uptime and physical security. I listed many options that may or may not be appropriate to the original poster. The OP didn't make clear what his hosting needs were, so my suggestions were a bit of a shotgun approach.

Obviously there are things that hosting in a real data center can do that one can't do at home. You just need to figure out what your needs and your resources are.

Comment Name and Shame (Score 3, Insightful) 539

If you have some reason that you haven't moved to a different provider, at least let the rest of us know who to avoid. Name and shame, please.

As others have pointed out

  • If they have physical access, you can make things a bit tougher for them, but never impossible
  • If all they wanted was access to your logs, then create a user for your providers that is in a group that can read your logs
  • Check with your local ISPs to see if you can get a business account (for a static IP address) and self-host. I'm fortunate enough to have FiOS where I live, and while Verizon is really confused about having a business account at a residence, the headache is worth it. I've got about an hour's worth of UPS at home.
  • At least consider the possibility that your diagnosis is wrong. Maybe you've been rooted maliciously and not by your provider. Or maybe what's going on is your own misconfiguration. At least be open to this possibility (and so give them access to your logs to assist in diagnosis).
  • And, of course, consider changed providers.

Comment docx from the comments (Score 3, Informative) 163

I'm unable to understand the main post (too much legal and technical jargon for my largely forgotten Hungarian knowledge), but I can read many of the comments.

Someone specifically asked about docx and a comment reply said that docx would be allowed because of the ISO decision (in which Hungary supported making docx an ISO standard). Both the query and response were from ACs, but the response certainly seems plausible to me.

The story of Hungary's ultimate support for Microsoft in the ISO is a long and twisted tale which I was only able to partially follow.

Debian

FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux 206

dnaumov writes "FreeNAS, a popular, free NAS solution, is moving away from using FreeBSD as its underlying core OS and switching to Debian Linux. Version 0.8 of FreeNAS as well as all further releases are going to be based on Linux, while the FreeBSD-based 0.7 branch of FreeNAS is going into maintenance-only mode, according to main developer Volker Theile. A discussion about the switch, including comments from the developers, can be found on the FreeNAS SourceForge discussion forum. Some users applaud the change, which promises improved hardware compatibility, while others voice concerns regarding the future of their existing setups and lack of ZFS support in Linux."

Comment Re:Better Google than your ISP (Score 2, Insightful) 540

Dude, all of your traffic are passing through your ISP already, what makes you think they won't log your DNS requests to Google if they found enough people are using it?

There is a big difference between keeping logs for a service you are running and doing deep packet inspection. And if our ISPs are doing that, then Google is the least of our worries with respect to privacy.

Comment Better Google than your ISP (Score 5, Insightful) 540

Google is datamining everywhere and everything already.

When I first read about this, I immediately thought about datamining. But after another second, I figured that I would prefer Google to have this information than Verizon (where my caching DNS server currently forwards to). It is true that Google is better at datamining, but do keep in mind that whoever is providing your DNS service has the information about your DNS requests.

Another difference between Google and your ISP is that your ISP knows who you are from your IP address. So they can link DNS resolution requests to specific, named, customers. Google can't do that directly.

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