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twoheadedboy writes:
Members of the legal team responsible for prosecution of Aaron Swartz have claimed they received threatening letters, emails and some had their social network accounts hacked following the suicide of the Internet freedom activist. Following Swartz's death, his family and friends widely lambasted the prosecution team, who were accused of being heavy-handed in their pursuit of the 26-year-old. He was facing trial for alleged copyright infringement, accused of downloading excessive amounts of material from the academic article resource JSTOR. US attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz, who headed up the prosecution, and another lead prosecutor Stephen Heymann have reportedly become the target of “harassing and threatening messages” and their personal information, including home address, personal telephone number, and the names of family members and friends, was posted online. Heymann also received a postcard with a picture of his father’s head in a guillotine.
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twoheadedboy writes:
In a bid to make some ground in the mobile browser market, Mozilla and Samsung are working together on a fresh browser engine — ‘Servo’. It is being developed primarily for Android phones built on ARM processors, and is built with the “massively parallel” hardware of the future in mind, according to Mozilla’s CTO Brendan Eich. It's also built on top of the new ‘Rust’ programming language, which has been developed by Mozilla and a growing community of open source enthusiasts.
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twoheadedboy writes:
China has again been named as the suspected perpetrator of a malware campaign, this time against Tibetan activists. Attackers created a malicious version of a real Android communications app, Kakao Talk, which siphoned off plenty of data and revealed details on the victim's whereabouts. To get to the right people, the attackers kicked off a spear phishing campaign, having most likely gained contacts from a hacked email account. They even cloned a legitimate message with an Android APK to trick targets. Citizen Lab, the group of researchers who looked into the malware, said it was deeply concerning.
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twoheadedboy writes:
Google is in hot water over privacy again. This time it is facing the wrath of no less than six regulators in Europe, after it failed to do enough to stop CNIL, the French privacy watchdog, ordering Europe-wide investigations. France, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain will all look into Google's policy changes of 2012. Those amendments caused a furore amongst privacy advocates, largely because, by lumping all of its different services' privacy policies into one document, it effectively said it could transfer data across different divisions without asking users' permission. EU commissioner Viviane Reding said they broke EU law. Meanwhile, Google's privacy director Alma Whitten departed yesterday, but it's unclear whether the exit is related to the saga. Google itself said in February that CNIL was in fact the one not responding to questions adequately...
