The Internet Stories for 2010

China Censors 60,000 Porn Sites, 5,000 Arrested 219
Beware of Using Google Or OpenDNS For iTunes 348
VoIP Now Technically Illegal In China 181
Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage 278
Amazon Cloud Not Big Enough For Feds and WikiLeaks 204
Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet 535
The Right's War On Net Neutrality 945
After IPv4, How Will the Internet Function? 320
A New Idea, For People Who Want To See More Banner Ads 167
If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet From the Start 191
MegaUpload Dares RIAA To Sue Them 255
Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names 249
Spanish Congress Rejects Internet Censorship Law 229
Study Finds DDoS Attacks Threaten Human Rights 118
Is Net Neutrality Really Needed? 705
Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security 277
Pirate Bay Defendant Aims For Sweden's Supreme Court 98
Google TV Suffers Setback 202
Obama FCC Caves On Net Neutrality 853
Split Screen Co-op Is Dying 362
British ISPs Respond On Filtering 163
Military Pressuring Vendors On IPv6 406
D0z.me — the Evil URL Shortener 116
DHS Seized Domains Based On Bad Evidence 235
The DNSSEC Chicken & Egg Challenge 77
Database of Private SSL Keys Published 200
Vint Cerf, US Congresswoman Oppose Net Regulation 156
FBI Defend Raids On Texas Datacenter 115
Nigerian Email Scam Victim Sues Bank, Loses Appeal 312
UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default 642
Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released 307
Opera Goes To 11, With Extensions and Tab Stacks 296
Look Forward To Per-Service, Per-Page Fees 400
Raising a Botnet In Captivity 60
ITU Softens On the Definition of 4G Mobile 45
Carrier Trick To Save IPv4 Could Help Spammers 124
UN Considering Control of the Internet 402
Yahoo! To Close Delicious 311
Google Fiber Delays Broadband Award To 2011 90
The French Government Can Now Censor the Internet 419
OnLive Awarded Patent For Cloud-Based Gaming 87
Designer Arrested Over Anonymous Press Release 288
Today's WikiLeaks News 312
Internet Usage Catches Up With Television In US 119
TIME Names Mark Zuckerberg Person of Year 317
McDonald's Hacked and Customer Data Stolen 178
Julian Assange's Online Dating Profile Leaked 334
Why Anonymous Can't Take Down Amazon.com 392
Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail 987
Comcast Accused of Congestion By Choice 434
The Future of Web Video At Stake In Comcast-NBC Regulatory Review 121
4chan Declares War On Snow 201
Righthaven Sues For Control of Drudge Report Domain 161
68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband 611
Has Progress Been Made In Fighting DDoS Attacks? 206
WikiLeaks, Money, and Ron Paul 565
Hosting Giants Teaming Against Small Businesses 163
Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address 275
Canadian Supreme Court To Decide If Linking Is Publishing 82
Chrome OS Doesn't Trust Apps Or Users 410
DNSSEC Comes To .Net Zone Today 62
BitTorrent Client Offers P2P Without Central Tracking 218
OpenLeaks — 'A New WikiLeaks' 538
US Trials Off Track Over Juror Internet Misconduct 405
Beating Censorship By Routing Around DNS 216
Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews 240
FCC Approving Pay-As-You-Go Internet Plans 414
Fix To Chinese Internet Traffic Hijack Due In Jan. 92
Malicious Online Retailer Ordered Held Without Bail 225
Australia's Outback Could Get Web Via TV Antenna 121
The New Reality of Gaming 122
DOJ Ramping Up Crackdown On Copyright-Infringing Sites 366
Amazon Web Services Launches DNS Service 146
Report Finds More Aussie Gov't Workers Misusing Internet 90
Using the Web To Turn Kids Into Autodidacts 230
WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort 586
China Views Internet As "Controllable" 185
Bill Calls For Wi-Fi Base Stations In All Federal Buildings 196
The Odd Variations On 3G Per-Megabyte Pricing 205
Schneier Recommends Nuclear-Style Cyberwar Hotlines, Treaties 123
Web Bugs the New Norm For Businesses? 108
Time Warner Defends Comcast In Level 3 Dispute 315
Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet 431
History Sniffing In the Wild 96
Verizon LTE Can Use the Monthly Data Allotment In 32 Minutes 273
The Golden Hour of Phishing Attacks 59
Wikileaks Booted From Amazon 528
FTC Proposes Do Not Track List For the Web 173
Internet Routing, Looming Disaster? 109
FCC To Vote On Net Neutrality On December 21 319
The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Starting P2P-DNS 309
Free IPv4 Pool Now Down To Seven /8s 460
Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You 273
Aussie Gov't Decides ISPs Aren't Responsible For Infected Computers 129
Peter Sunde Wants To Create Alternative To ICANN 276
Chinese DNS Tampering a Real Threat To Outsiders 181
Rights Groups Slam UK Government for RIPA changes 43
No Press Is Bad Press Even Online 139
Operation Payback Shuts Down IFPI Site 376
DHS Seizes 75+ Domain Names 529
Who Will Win Control of the Web? 206
Deep Packet Inspection Set To Return 125
Google, Microsoft Cheat On Slow-Start — Should You? 123
US Government Seizes Torrent Search Engine Domain 305
Every Day's a Tax Holiday At Amazon 377
UK Police To Get Major New Powers To Seize Domains 161
British MP Calls For Pornography 'Opt-In' 335
Verizon Speeds Up FiOS To 150Mbps 314
Opera 11 Beta Released, With Extensions Support 142
Online Behavior Could Influence Insurance Rates 141
Wikileaks Vows Release '7x the Size' of Iraq Leak 491
FCC Commissioner Blasts Verizon On Net Neutrality 157
Swedish Man Fined For Posting Links To Online Video Feeds 252
Facebook Messaging Blocks Links 143
Oregon Senator Stops Internet Censorship Bill 315
Oregon Senator Seeks To Block COICA 81
Like Democracy, the Web Needs To Be Defended 108
eJuror Will Lead To New List of Jury Duty Excuses 191
Claims About China's April Internet Hijack Are Overblown 78
New Bill Would Put DHS In Charge of 'Critical' Private Networks 193
Senate Panel Approves Website Shut-Down Bill 390
50 ISPs Harbor Half of All Infected Machines 140
Gaikai Ramping Up Open Beta 44
MPAA Dismisses COICA Free Speech Concerns 300
UK Minister Backs 'Two-Speed' Internet 226
Rural North Carolina Experiences Data Center Boom 153
Cooks Source Magazine Apologizes — Sort Of 290
Proposed Final ACTA Text Published 148
Facebook Inbox Throws Blow At Google... No Flinch? 207
For 18 Minutes, 15% of the Internet Routed Through China 247
Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection 313
Shadow Scholar Details Student Cheating 542
Proposed ADA Requirements May Affect Public Internet Use 420
Apple the No. 1 Danger To Net Freedom 354
Web-Users Fall For Fake Anti-Virus Scams 272
Georgia College's New Policy — Reporting All P2P Users To the Police 421
Vint Cerf Calls For IPv6 Incentives In UK 164
The Ascendancy of .co 164
The Monopolies That Dominate the Internet 342
Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank 496
RockMelt — Right Browser, Wrong Platform? 48
Obama May Toughen Internet Privacy Rules 222
Google Says No More Cash For Trash Web Bugs 88
Aussie Gov't Says Wiretap Laws Fine, Telcos 'Wrong' 127
Amazon Patents Bad Gift Protection 210
Digital Archaeology Show Reveals 'Lost' Web Sites 113
Dutch ISP Demos Symmetric 100Mbps DOCSIS3 159
Google Give Searchers 'Instant Previews' of Result Pages 252
Mob-Sourcing — the Prejudice of Crowds 178
Net Pioneers Say Open Internet Should Be Separate 216
Andreesen Offers New Browser 'Rockmelt' 185
Bloglines Shutdown Avoided 24
Porn Maker Sues 7,000+ For Copyright Infringement 374
Europe Simulates Total Cyber War 80
Google Challenges Facebook Over User Address Books 120
Roku Now Licensing Its Media Player Design 53
Hulu Plus Now Available To All — But Be Warned 348
Firefox 4 Beta For Mobile Now Faster and Sleeker 70
EU Commission Says People Have a 'Right To Be Forgotten' Online 200
CDN Optimizing HTML On the Fly 121
Cook's Magazine Claims Web Is Public Domain 565
Jammie Thomas Hit With $1.5 Million Verdict 764
Will Netflix Destroy the Internet? 577
Why 'Cyber Crime' Should Just Be Called 'Crime' 368
W3C Says IE9 Is Currently the Most HTML5 Compatible Browser 382
Kindle Allowing Chinese Unfettered Access To Web 138
Google Broadens Bug Bounties To Include Web App Security 50
Blekko Launches a Search Engine With Bias 133
Fighting Ad Blockers With Captcha Ads 450
UK Wants ISPs To Be Responsible For Third Party Content Online 158
New VP8 Codec SDK Release Improves Performance 168
Is Google Polluting the Internet? 378
How Not To Design a Protocol 186
Manchester's Self-Described 'Internet Troll' Jailed For Offensive Web Posts 321
Herding Firesheep In NYC — Do Users Care? 200
Microsoft's Silverlight Strategy 'Has Shifted' 212
Geocities To Be Made Available As a 900GB Torrent 215
IE6 Addiction Inhibits Windows 7 Migrations 470
Scholars Say ACTA Needs Senate Approval 204
Mozilla Labs Add-On Provides Video and Audio Recording From the Browser 132
Google Now Second-Largest ISP 71
Most Americans Support an Internet Kill Switch 398
Information Rage Coming Soon To an Office Near You 201
How To Protect Against Firesheep Attacks 208
Closing In On 1Gbps Using DSL 230
Korea Kicking People Offline With One Strike 176
Riskiest Web Domains To Visit 106
Iranian Cyber Army Moves Into Botnet Renting 63
Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player 139
10 Oddly Useful Specialty Web Browsers 72
ABC, CBS, and NBC Block Google TV 227
Vint Cerf Keeps Blaming Himself For IPv4 Limit 309
Bible.com Investor Sues Company For Lack Of Profit 181
On Several Fronts, US Gov't Prepares To Regulate Online Privacy 123
Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls 107
AP Proposes ASCAP-Like Fees For the News 146
Interop Returns 16 Million IPv4 Addresses 270
ACLU Says Net Neutrality Necessary For Free Speech 283
Gene Simmons Threatens Anonymous Again and Gets DDoS'd 403
Google's Slideshow of Interesting Things 72
Comcast Migrating Customers To DNSSEC Resolvers 196
NRO Warns They Are On Final IPv4 Address Blocks 282
Top Facebook Apps Violate Privacy Terms 95
DoD Study Contradicts Charges Against WikiLeaks 228
News Corp. Shuts Off Hulu Access To Cablevision 316
Why the Web Mustn't Become the New TV 240
Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland 547
ICANN Approves .IRAN (in Non-Latin) 148
Putting the Squeeze On Broadband Copper Robbers 282
Webvention Demanding $80k For Rollover Images 314
Opera Embraces Extensions For v.11 283
Home WiFi Network Security Failings Exposed 161
NY Times Confident of 'First Click Free' Paywalls 193
Cyber-criminals Targeting Online Gaming Websites 62
Meet NELL, the Computer That Learns From the Net 272
Technological Genius Is Timeliness, Not Inspiration 255
Profs Bring TV Spectrum Free Wi-Fi To Houston Area 82
Squeezing More Bandwidth Out of Fiber 185
North Korea Opens .kp Sites On the Internet 175
DC Internet Voting Trial Attacked 2 Different Ways 123
China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches 326
Reuters Ends Anonymous Comments 159
New Tool Suite Helps Track Privacy Policies 25
French ISP Refuses To Send Out Infringement Notices 302
Microsoft Eyes PC Isolation Ward To Thwart Botnets 413
Facebook Implements 'Download Your Profile' Option 114
Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains 354
W3C Says Don't Use HTML5 Yet 205
Can Large Scale NAT Save IPv4? 583
BT Seeks Moratorium On Internet Piracy Cases 71
Comcast Warns Customers Suspected of Bot Infection 196
Google TV Details Revealed 180
Court Rules Against Woman Who Didn't Like Search Results 173
Anonymous Knocks Out Ministry of Sound Website 240
Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads? 591
The Science of Truthiness 180
Masterpieces Online — High Culture At High Resolution 99
Army DNS ROOT Server Down For 18+ Hours 154
Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP 378
House Democrats Shelve Net Neutrality Proposal 221
Xmarks May Not Be Dead After All 123
Google URL Shortener Opened To the Public 244
There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 717
Torrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing 207
Most Readers Don't Like Customized News 107
Giving the Blind Better Web Access 168
Destroy Entire Websites With Asteroids Bookmarklet 65
British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law 121
UK's Two Biggest ISPs Rip Up Net Neutrality 225
Obama Highlights IPv6 Issue 442

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