Sorry for the lack of notes on the news links, the Holiday weekend didn’t leave me enough time to review all of the stories and offer comments.
Quick News Links
- Corporate help to improve open source usability
- RMS on the risk of relying on Mono
- Debian rejects the idea Mono is a threat
- More Pirate Parties founded in Europe
- Mozilla Fennec may come to Android suing its new native SDK
- Google encouraging citizen journalism on YouTube
- First electronic quantum processor
- Graphene could be used to increase memory density
- DPI use in Iran invites scrutiny in the West
- US senators considering criminalizing DPI
- Run a Tor node to help Iranian free speech
The EFF has a nice post on running a Tor relay or a bridge. I’ve been wondering why this hasn’t been recommended more in relation to the protests in Iran. Now that we know the government is using DPI, it makes even more sense to be popularizing Tor. - Options in addition to Tor you can use to further free speech in Iran
Timmer at Ars endorses the EFF piece on running a Tor relay and/or a bridge. Beyond using just Tor, he includes pointers to using Squid and IP Rental. Anything that can complement the existing success of social networks and increase resistance to DPI is a plus. - Details emerge on GGF’s plans for TPB
According to Techdirt, they see the new offering as a benefit to ISPs, based on the technical architecture of BitTorrent. So much so that they expect ISPs to pay them to reduce traffic, congestion and then they will pay their users. They will also apparently pay rights holders from the same source. It also makes my guesses about Peerialism as a P4P or Pando type service seem more accurate. - Insider trading suspected in TPB sale
The trading was of GGF stock and the activity before the announcement seems to indicate some foreknowledge though no direct evidence has been brought to light. Techdirt also mentions threats from the exchange on which GGF is traded for its ownership of a site, TPB, which the exchange apparently finds unpalatable. - All abstraction are failed abstractions
- Firefox 3.5 released
- Dealing with your encryption passwords after your death
- Online magazine from Pragmatic Programmers
via Hacker News - RIAA wins case against Usenet.com
- Details on new FCC chair
- Congress to look into defunct airport fast lane operator
- Google attempts self regulation on behavioral advertising
- Patents don’t promote innovation
- A PAC for geeks
- XHTML2 is dead, HTML5 sole survivor
via Daring Fireball - 200 year old cipher cracked
- Judge overturns Lori Drew misdemeanor
- Logo for program to add kill switches to RFIDs
- Questioning whether there is an idea/expression dichotomy in practice
- Gathering to discuss development in a post-relational world
- World’s first secure, quantum crypto network
Quick Security Alerts
- Closed trusted traveler provider selling customer data
- ATM vendor halts researchers talk on vulnerability
- Rivest withdraws MD6 entry from SHA-3 competition
- ColdFusion servers exploited
- Month of twitter bugs finds security issues
Quick Follow Up Links
- SCOTUS refuses to hear Cablevision
- Details of Facebook’s new privacy options
- Thomas decides to appeal constitutionality of damages
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