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Australian Email Service FastMail Says It is Losing Customers and Facing Calls To Move Operations Outside of the Country Over Local Anti-Encryption Laws (itnews.com.au) 65

Posted by msmash from the chaos-ensues dept.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Email provider FastMail says it has lost customers and faces "regular" requests to shift its operations outside Australia following the passage of anti-encryption laws. The Victorian company, which offers ad-free email services to users in 150 countries, told a senate committee that the now-passed laws were starting to bite.

"The way in which [the laws] were introduced, debated, and ultimately passed ... creates a perception that Australia has changed - that we are no longer a country which respects the right to privacy," FastMail CEO Bron Gondwana said. "We have already seen an impact on our business caused by this perception. Our particular service is not materially affected as we already respond to warrants under the Telecommunications Act." "Still, we have seen existing customers leave, and potential customers go elsewhere, citing this bill as the reason for their choice. We are [also] regularly being asked by customers if we plan to move."
Network

ICANN Warns of 'Ongoing and Significant' Attacks Against Internet's DNS Infrastructure (techcrunch.com) 94

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
The internet's address book keeper has warned of an "ongoing and significant risk" to key parts of the domain name system infrastructure, following months of increased attacks. From a report: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, issued the notice late Friday, saying DNS, which converts numerical internet addresses to domain names, has been the victim of "multifaceted attacks utilizing different methodologies." It follows similar warnings from security companies and the federal government in the wake of attacks believe to be orchestrated by nation state hackers.

[...] ICANN's chief technology officer David Conrad told the AFP news agency that the hackers are "going after the Internet infrastructure itself." The internet organization's solution is calling on domain owners to deploy DNSSEC, a more secure version of DNS that's more difficult to manipulate. DNSSEC cryptographically signs data to make it more difficult -- though not impossible -- to spoof.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Is It Even Legal For Websites To Gather And Sell User's Data? 4

Submitted by dryriver
dryriver writes: Lets say that I follow a person named John D. around for days without permission, make note of what John D. does and buys where with timestamps accurate to the second without John D. knowing it is happening, analyze what kind of personality traits John D. has, enter that data into an electronic database where it is stored forever, and also make the data purchaseable to any 3rd party who is interested. Would I be breaking the law if John D. has not given me explicit permission to do this? Very likely. If this is the case for "meatspace data gathering", how can websites justify gathering information about visitors, and selling that information to 3rd parties? I don't see any websites opening with a "caution — we track everything you do here and sell what we learn about you to 3rd parties" warning message.
Cloud

Citrix Moves Away From OpenStack For Apache 29

Posted by samzenpus from the so-long-farewell-aufwiedersehn-goodbye dept.
netbuzz writes "Citrix today announced that it is turning its development attention away from the OpenStack project, started two years ago by NASA and Rackspace, in favor of its own CloudStack platform, Apache and Amazon Web Services. 'Based on challenges of the technical maturity and where we are with CloudStack, (OpenStack) became a path not viable,' says a Citrix executive. Industry analysts contend that the move says more about Citrix and its needs than it does OpenStack and its future."

Comment Social Networks Law Enforcement's Easy Button (Score 2) 403

by Worf Maugg (#37057072) Attached to: UK To Shut Down Social Networks?
I would think law enforcement would be shooting themselves in the foot shutting down these networks. What more could they ask for then to have them advertise their intentions in public. It like when law enforcement was complaining about sex adds on Craigslist. It's got save on investigation time when all you have to do is go the Craigslist pick an ad and make an arrest.

Submission + - Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged (wired.com)

Submitted by Worf Maugg
Worf Maugg writes: Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net’s most popular sites are using a tracking service that can’t be evaded — even when users block cookies, turn off storage in Flash, or use browsers’ “incognito” functions.

The service, called KISSmetrics, is used by sites to track the number of visitors, what the visitors do on the site, and where they come to the site from — and the company says it does a more comprehensive job than its competitors such as Google Analytics.
Image

Police Called Over 11-Year-Old's Science Project 687

Posted by samzenpus from the duck-and-cover dept.
garg0yle writes "Police in San Diego were called to investigate an 11-year-old's science project, consisting of 'a motion detector made out of an empty Gatorade bottle and some electronics,' after the vice-principal came to the conclusion that it was a bomb. Charges aren't being laid against the youth, but it's being recommended that he and his family 'get counseling.' Apparently, the student violated school policies — I'm assuming these are policies against having any kind of independent thought?"
GUI

Attractive Open Source Search Interfaces? 65

Posted by timothy from the you'll-have-this-ansi-terminal-and-like-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I work for a company that manages an online database for the political market. We add to this DB daily with updates from a variety of sources and our customers then search through this content via our Solr/Lucene search engine. My problem is, our search interface is a little, well, basic and I would love to know if there are any feature-rich open source alternatives out there. The only one I can find is Flamenco, and while that seems strong on categorisation, that seems to be about the height of it."

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