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Submission + - Saudi Arabia Calls For Global Internet Censorship Body (telegraph.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Onymous Hero
Onymous Hero writes: Following the recent YouTube video "The Innocence of Muslims" and the subsequent Muslim violence, Saudi Arabia has stated that there is a “there is a crying need for international collaboration to address ‘freedom of expression’ which clearly disregards public order”. The World Telecommunications Policy Forum (a UN body) is the vehicle by which Saudi Arabia (and possibly other states) will try to use to implement a global set of internet content standards.
Security

Submission + - Lone packet crashes telco networks (scmagazine.com.au)

Submitted by mask.of.sanity
mask.of.sanity writes: A penetration tester has shown that GSM communications systems can be taken down with a handful of malformed packets.

The weakness was in the lack of security around the Home Location Register server clusters which store GSM subscriber details as part of the global SS7 network.

A single packet, sent from within any network including femtocells, took down one of the clusters for two minutes.
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Submission + - 19,000 emails against and 0 in favour of Draft Communications Bill (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by Qedward
Qedward writes: Open source writer Glyn Moody discusses the Draft Communications Bill (aka Snooper's Charter) in the UK and how the Joint Parliamentary Committee that had been considering the bill received almost 19,000 emails during its consultation period.

He notes: "Out of 19,000 emails received by the Committee on the subject of the proposed Draft Communications Bill, not a single one was in favour of it, or even agreed with its premise. Has there ever been a bill so universally rejected by the public in a consultation? Clearly, it must be thrown out completely."...

Unfortunately the link to the consultation document itself is also now broken.
Google

Submission + - How Google is Remapping Public Transportation (xconomy.com)

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waderoush writes: "Google wants to "organize the world's information," but there isn't a marketplace or a category of knowledge it can organize without remaking it in the process. A case in point: public transportation. Largely outside the media spotlight, Google has wrought a quiet revolution over the last five years in the way commuters get schedule information for local buses and trains and the way public transit agencies communicate with their riders. GTFS and GTFS-realtime, which Google invented, have become the de facto world standards for sharing transit data, and have opened up space for a whole ecosystem of third-party transit app developers. This in-depth article looks at the history of GTFS and Google's efforts to give people information (largely via their smartphones) that can help them plan their commutes on public transportation — and, not incidentally, drive a lot less."

Comment Complete translation to english from swedish. (Score 1) 329

by gustapfo (#28057811) Attached to: Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed
New judges in the Piratebay-case


The supreme court replaces the new judge in the Piratebay-case. The bias question is now being decided by three other judges from another department. - For your information i'll mention that none of these three judges are currently nor has been members of any of the associations topical in this case, writes the surpeme court in a press release.

After information regarding the new supreme court judge in the Piratebay-case previously was a member of the same copyrightassociation as the bias accused judge, the supreme court president yesterday to try if it's not up to another department to decide the bias accusation.

Today came the decision: Appointed supreme court adviser Ulrika Ihrfelt, who works at the department that specializes in copyright and immaterial cases, aren't allowed to judge about whether the court are guilty of bias.

Instead the bias case will be moved to another of the supreme courts departments and there to be tried by the departments chief (supreme court lawman?) Anders Eka, together with supreme court advisers Christina Jacobsson and Ulrika Beergrehn.

"The reasons for this are both that the bias question should be tried by other judges then those who late will judge the case and considered the content of the bias-objection, it's being decided appropriate that the bias-case is being concluded in a department other than the one who specializes in copyright", writes the supreme court in it's press release.

The bias case is a priority. Supreme court president Henrik Wersäll count on a decision "within a few weeks tops", states TT.

The supreme court won't handle the Piratebay-case until the bias question is settled. If Nordström would be judged biased the case could be sent back to district court and the sentence would be withdrawn.

Several of the sentenced pirates lawyers means that Nordström has been biased, partly according to the fact that he is a member of several associations connected to copyright issues. The four was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 30 million Swedish kronor ($3 841 671).


Emma Johannisson +46 8 13 59 24 emma.johannisson@svd.se

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