Comment Re:It's in the Legal FAQ (Score 2) 325
The node was in a datacentre in another country.
He was raided at home based on the address details the police obtained from the datacentre.
Submission + - Raided for running a Tor exit node (lowendtalk.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A Tor Exit node owner is being prosecuted in Austria. As part of the prosecution all of his electronics including over 20 computers, his cell phone and hard disks have been held by the authorities. This brings up the question: What backup plan if any should the average nerd have for something like this?
Comment Re:Some of that 51.0.0.0/8 actually is in use (Score 2) 399
APNIC have been on their last
That means no more than 1024 IPs per organisation, ever.
So once existing allocations are exhausted, right now, in Europe, Asia, or the Pacific, any new ISP will not be able to have more than 1024 customers online at the same time without NAT. Any new datacentre or VPS provider will not be able to have more than 1024 active services, at all (since NAT would not be an acceptable solution for servers).
"The time you need to move" is now for many people, and it's not going to be long before it's you too.
Comment Re:Some of that 51.0.0.0/8 actually is in use (Score 2) 399
If you need a
> Personally I think the people asking for addresses to be returned by any organisation (supposedly) not using them (including all the other apparently wasted
Consumer internet IPv6 adoption rates are atrocious across the globe. VPSes and dedicated servers require dedicated IPs, and even shared hosting requires a dedicated IP for SSL if you want anybody running any version of Internet Explorer on Windows XP to not get a certificate warning.
Are people who do business online supposed to claim pensions until enough people can reach their IPv6-only websites?
Comment Re:They had a warrant. (Score 1) 355
I blame the FBI for seeking a moronic warrant in the first place.
Comment Re:Obviously they were just waiting to start (Score 0) 169
Don't expect too many details until a patch is out.
Comment Re:FUD. (Score 5, Insightful) 188
A legitimate business was shut down globally for an unknown length of time because one of their customers was doing something wrong. Instead of working with the company to stop it like, oh, I don't know, every other internet business ever, they shot first and asked questions later.
It's the incompetence we've all come to expect from law enforcement that either don't understand or don't care about the consequences of their actions as soon as a computer's involved.
Comment Re:One possibility (Score 1) 513
Whilst I agree with you, there's also the (slim) chance that the populace are going to be pissed off enough at disruption of their online entertainment to get upset about it.
Abstract concepts like "freedom" and "civil liberties" and "habeas corpus" are one thing, entertainment is quite another. But as long as most people have their Facebook and their cable or Netflix they'll be happy either way.
Comment Re:And money changes hands... (Score 2) 373
TFA says quite clearly that it's the default.
Are There Any Smartphones That Respect Privacy? 478
An anonymous reader writes "After many years I am finally considering entering the smartphone era. Within the mainstream, there seem to be four OS choices: Windows, Android, Blackberry, or iOS: Android comes out as clear winner to me. However, all of the choices in one way or another require sharing a lot of personal information in the Cloud run by their respective corporations. Let alone Blackberry's centralized mail servers; there is no way to have an Android smartphone working decently without sharing all of your contacts, calendar appointments, and other stuff with Google. While Android is less intrusive than iOS, the lack of privacy remains quite annoying no matter how comfortable it is to have your own calendar and contacts centralized. In 2011 is there any option, other than living in a cave, to keep one's own life private while enjoying the wonders of modern smartphone apps?"
Comment Re:Trained vultures to find bodies? (Score 2) 54
Much like the hawks at Wimbledon that chase away the pigeons, the hard part is overriding the instinct to eat it once they've found it.
Comment Re:Opera 11: Email? Make that SeaMonkey (Score 1) 132
Opera's had email inbuilt since Opera 4 in 2000, and the last major update it got was in Opera 10. I don't understand why the article mentions it like it's some new thing.
Comment Re:No blu-ray (Score 1) 277
Do you really want a blu-ray player, AND an HTPC, AND an Xbox 360, etc. cluttering up your living room
Yes, I do. Why? Because electronics are made cheaply and I like the idea that if one thing dies everything else still works.
Comment Re:what incompetent boobs (Score 1) 150
Windows NT version numbers have gone 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4.0, 5.0 (2000), 5.1 (XP), 5.2 (Server 2003, XP 64-bit, XP x64, Home Server), 6.0 (Vista, Server 2008), 6.1 (7, Server 2008 R2). If you ignore the marketing names the version numbering is actually pretty reasonable.
Comment Re:Sounds like a fork... (Score 1) 295
It depends. This new interpreter may be better in some specific circumstances but worse in others, making it unsuitable for most people and highly useful for others. That's the sort of situation where you want to keep both the old and the new and everyone's happy.
