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Digg Backs Down On DiggBar 180

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 16, 2009 @10:04AM from the frames-are-bad-mmkay dept.

Barence writes "Social news website Digg.com has made key changes to its recently introduced DiggBar. The browser add-on had been much criticised for its use of frames to 'host' third-party websites within the digg.com domain using an obfuscating short URL, thereby boosting its own traffic figures to the detriment of those third parties. After many major sites ran negative articles on the DiggBar, and even changed their code to block it, Digg has relented and announced two changes to ease concerns."

Comment Re:Lots of docs, lots of speculation (Score 1) 479

by kinkos on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @05:30PM (#24503259) Attached to: Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws

I guess Katrina must have REALLY caught them by surprise...

Sweden to Make Denial of Service Attacks Illegal 108

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 19, 2007 @06:30PM from the play-nicer dept.

paulraps writes "Sweden is to pass legislation making Denial of Service attacks illegal. The offense will carry a maximum jail term of two years, and is thought to be a direct response to the attack which crashed the Swedish police's web site last summer. Nobody was charged for that, but the fact that it came shortly after a raid on the Pirate Bay's servers was thought by many to be not entirely coincidental. Sweden's move follows the UK, which is even tougher on web attackers — there the sentence can be over five years in prison."

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