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Submission + - YouTube banned nationwide in Turkey

Submitted by

unity100

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @08:22AM

unity100 writes: "As of 07.03.2007, access to YouTube.com has been banned nationwide in Turkey through the nations' one and only internet backbone provider, Turkish Telecom, in accordance with decision no: 2007/384 dated 06.03.2007 of Istanbul First Criminal Peace Court.

The reason for this court's decision is a recent video that has been published on YouTube.com recently which is said to be insulting Turkish Republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal.

Curiously, this follows on the heels of a 3-4 month long campaign by the ruling party and the media supporting them against the freedom in the internet, citing "internet needs to be 'straightened up'".

All internet users nationwide are met with the below message that apparently emanates from Turkish Telecom DNS server or access filters :

"Bu siteye eriim mahkeme kararyla engellenmitir !...

www.youtube.com sitesine eriim stanbul 1. Sulh Ceza Mahkemesi'nin 2007/384 say ve 06.03.2007 tarihli karar gerei engellenmitir.

Access to www.youtube.com site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2007/384 dated 06.03.2007 of Istanbul First Criminal Peace Court.""

Submission + - Using Copyright to Protect Privacy?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @07:58AM

An anonymous reader writes: From ABC News:

It was 1996, when Kathleen Stanfield Weinstein was carjacked in a southern New Jersey parking lot. She managed to activate a tape recorder she was carrying and recorded 46 excruciating minutes of her pleas for her life before her attacker bound her hands and feet and smothered her. Last week a judge ruled that the much-sought-after recording of the slain schoolteacher trying to talk her killer out of murdering her would not "under any circumstances'' be released to the media...In a move that legal experts said is virtually unprecedented, Weinstein and New Jersey attorney Carmine Villani copyrighted the recording.

Feed Downloading Is a Packrat's Dream (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @07:12AM

In the good old days, clutter kings smothered under mountains of their own trash. Like everything else, compulsive hoarding has gone digital. By Jeff Koyen.

Submission + - Hacker attempts to break Tor anonymity

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @05:32AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "It appears that "über-hacker HD Moore" has been hard at work attempting to exploit Tor. His claimed motivation is, no surprise here, to track down evil paedophiles using Tor to trade in their nefarious wares. Unfortunately for Moore, his attack is easily defeated by anyone who can read the documentation."

Submission + - Turkey Censors YouTube

Submitted by

FM Reader

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @05:28AM

FM Reader writes: "After a controversial mock-up video reportedly submitted by a Greek member about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, Turkish courts ordered the national ISPs to ban the online video service, YouTube. YouTube hostnames are currently redirected at the DNS level to a page that announces the court order."

Submission + - FreeBSD & Intel on redistribution of wifi firm

Submitted by

Joel Dahl

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @05:21AM

Joel Dahl writes: "http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/03/prweb509818. htm "The FreeBSD project has received approval from Intel to redistribute firmware for several Intel-based PRO/Wireless devices in the base FreeBSD operating system. The inclusion of firmware for popular Intel wireless devices means that users of FreeBSD will have native wireless support for many Centrino-branded Intel PRO/Wireless devices without downloading additional software. This approval includes firmware for the Intel 2100, 2200BG, 2225BG, 2915ABG, and the 3945ABG devices.""

Submission + - Alex Guinness's Star Wars Cloak sold for &poun

Submitted by dws90 on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @09:58PM

dws90 writes: The cloak worn by Sir Alex Guinness when he played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars original trilogy has been sold at a TV and Cinema auction. The cloak sold for £54,000, which is about $103,923 according to Google calculator. According to the article, the cloak was missing for nearly 30 years, during which it was rented out to a number of other films, including the Mummy. It was found two years ago, and has been part of a film memorabilia exhibition in London since then. The cloak sold for more than any of the other movie costumes the article listed, beating out Sean Connery's dinner jacket from Thunderball and a helmet worn by Terry Jones in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Journal Journal: 12 year old faces criminal charges for pictures of herself. 2

Journal by twitter on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @09:05PM

The criminal justice system is reaching for a new low, this time threatening a 12 year old for taking pictures of herself. There is a victim in this case, unlike the recent cases, where a 15 year old girl and a 17 year old couple were threatened with hard time for their own protection.

Submission + - Why Millions of Home Alarm Systems are Useless

Submitted by

Michael Jagger

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @08:15PM

Michael Jagger writes: "Here is link to a post that describes why one of the most popular home alarm systems in North America is a complete waste of money. The post describes why the hardware itself is useless as well as shows a picture showing exactly how an alarm should not be installed. The system described in the post, which is unfortunately similar to those in millions of North American homes, offers no value to anyone except for the monitoring companies who charge a monthly fee to provide a virtually useless service. Does your alarm system look like this?"

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