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Submission + - Germany won't prosecute NSA, but bloggers (netzpolitik.org)

Submitted by tmk
tmk writes: After countless evidence the on German top government officials German Federal Prosecutor General Harald Range has declined to investigate any wrongdoings of the secret services of allied nations like NSA or the British GCHQ. But after plans of the German secret service "Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz" to gain some cyper spy capabilities like the NSA were revealed by the blog netzpolitik.org, Hange started an official investigation against the bloggers and their sources. The charge: treason.
The Media

Submission + - The Pirate Bay boycotts the press (thepiratebay.org) 1

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tmk
tmk writes: "The Pirate Bay has decided to boycott journalists: "Due to last nights failure from the last entity of respected traditional media to keep promises we have decided to suspend all of our contacts with the press for the time being. [...] The mail sent to the press spokes person will not be read. The phone will not be answered."
The reason is a high profile scandal: someone has posted a torrent file to an autopsy report containing the images of two little children who were brutally murdered. The Pirate Bay refuses to delete the links to this file, which lead to false accusations and death threats."
Privacy

Submission + - German court: you must not log IP adresses! (heise.de)

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tmk
tmk writes: "The local court of the Berlin district of Mitte has barred the Federal Ministry of Justice from logging IP adresses of the visitors of its website. German law prohibits storing personal data for a longer time — if not needed for accounting. German privacy activists have started a campaign Wir speichern nicht, ("we don't log your data!") which provides manuals how to turn off the IP logging on your server."
The Internet

Submission + - Wikipedia gets state funding in Germany (heise.de)

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tmk
tmk writes: "How can the Wikipedia be improved? The German government started today a project to train experts to contribute to Wikipedia. The goal is to write or improve several hundret articles about renewable ressources in the Internet encyclopaedia. The project ist funded by the German Ministry of Nutrition, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection. The German chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikipedian to coordinate the efforts."
The Internet

Submission + - Russias war on malicious software

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tmk
tmk writes: "Russian minister Leonid Reiman announced new legislation to fight software piracy. According to official information the share of pirated software in the Russian Federation decreased in the last years from 90 to 60 percent. Reiman dismissed the impression many viruses origin in his country as "a myth": "Viruses are written all over the world. Russia is waging a consistent and successful war on malicious software."

Reiman calls for an international organisation to fight Internet crime. Last year Russia agreed to take down Allofmp3 after the United States intervened."
Amiga

Submission + - AmigaOS 4.0 released

Submitted by
tmk
tmk writes: "After five years Hyperion announces the avaiability of AmigaOS 4.0:
Amiga OS 4.0 is the most stable, modern and feature-rich incarnation to date of the multi-media centric operating system launched by Commodore Business Machines (CBM) in 1985 with which it still retains a high degree of compatibility.
But there is a snag: the new OS supports only the AmigaOne, which is not available anymore. According to Hyperion the new hardware platform will be announced by third parties early 2007."

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