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Submission + - Google Brazil executive "detained" for refusing Youtube takedown order (globo.com)

Submitted by h00manist on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @04:23PM

h00manist writes: The police executed an order to detain Google's top executive in Brazil, Fábio José Silva Coelho. Google refused an order to remove a youtube video which accused a mayoral candidate of several crimes. Police say he will be released today; Brazilian law for the case allows for a one-year max sentence. Streisand Effect, anyone?

Submission + - Super-privacy-protecting ISP in the planning (cnet.com)

Submitted by h00manist on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @04:52PM

h00manist writes: Nicholas Merrill ran a New York based ISP and got tired of federal "information requests". He is planning another ISP, which would be built from the ground up for privacy. Everything encrypted, maximum technical and legal resistance to information requests. Merrill has formed an advisory board with members including Sascha Meinrath from the New America Foundation; former NSA technical director Brian Snow; and Jacob Appelbaum from the Tor Project. Kickstarter-like IndieGoGo has a project page.

Submission + - Libya SIGINT jamming satellites, towers (reuters.com) 1

Submitted by h00manist on Thursday February 24, 2011 @07:11PM

h00manist writes: Libya's Gaddafi apparently loves radio hacking. Confirmed to be using signal jamming to disable Thuraya satellite phones. Also satellite TV network provider Arabsat, affecting vast areas in the Middle East, Gulf, Africa and Europe. Perhaps cellphone and internet transmissions also too, which work intermittently. Soldiers confiscate electronics, too. This has gone on for days, allowing killing carried out largely hidden from the world view, quite different from what happened in Egypt. The locations of the jamming signals is known to company executives, around capital Tripoli, but nobody can do anything. Only POTS available, and monitored. Technically, could this happen everywhere? Alternatives?

Submission + - Egypt shuts off all Internet access (arabist.net) 1

Submitted by h00manist on Thursday January 27, 2011 @07:30PM

h00manist writes: Several sources are reporting Egypt has shut off all Internet accesses. There is still no official confirmation. Blackberry, twitter and SMS seem confirmed off. So, if you were there, what would you do to get communications for everyone? Do you still have a POTS modem?

Submission + - Google donates $5M Windowbuilder and Codepro to Ec (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by h00manist on Sunday December 19, 2010 @10:08PM

h00manist writes: Words have officially leaked out on the InterWebs, via The Inquirer, that

Google is donating Windowbuilder Pro and Codepro Profiler to the Eclipse project. Google acquired the software when it bought Instantiations, relaunching the Java graphical user interface building tool Windowbuilder Pro shortly after. Now the outfit has decided to donate both Windowbuilder Pro and the code analysis tool Codepro to the open source Eclipse project. Although Google has announced its intention to donate the software, it needs go through a rigorous filtering process to ensure that no intellectual property rights will be breached. Once those formalities are dealt with, it is likely that both Windowbuilder Pro and Codepro will tip up in the Indigo release of Eclipse sometime in June 2011.

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