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WikiLeaks Attacks Reveal Surprising, Avoidable Vulnerabilities

Some online service providers are in the cross hairs this week for allegedly abandoning WikiLeaks after it published secret U.S. diplomatic cables and drew retaliatory technical, political and legal...

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PayPal Freezes WikiLeaks Account

In potentially the most significant attack on WikiLeaks to date, PayPal on Friday froze the account of the German foundation accepting donations for the secret spilling website, claiming that WikiLeaks...

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Apple Bans Lame WikiLeaks App

Apple on Monday banned an iPhone and iPad app designed to facilitate access to WikiLeaks’ unfolding cache of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables, putting the company on the growing list of U.S. corporations...

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2010: The Year the Internet Went to War

It was a year without parallel. Threat Level’s bread-and-butter themes of censorship, hacking, security, privacy, copyright and cyberwar were all represented in tug-of-war struggles with unprecedented...

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Report: Egypt Shut Down Net With Big Switch, Not Phone Calls

The Egyptian government shut down most of its country’s internet not by phoning ISPs one at a time, but by simply throwing a switch in a crucial data center in Cairo. That according to a February...

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Defining Internet ‘Freedom’: Ars Interviews Senator Al Franken

Since winning election to the U.S. Senate in 2008, Al Franken (D-Minnesota) has become one of that chamber’s top net neutrality defenders. With the House uninterested in compromise on the issue, the...

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Feds Say China’s Net Censorship Imposes ‘Barriers’ to Free Trade

The Obama administration publicly admonished China on Wednesday for its vast online censorship policies, for the first time officially complaining that blocking U.S.-based internet sites creates...

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Analysis: Internet Blacklist Bill Is Roadmap to ‘the End’ of the Internet

The rhetoric on both sides of the debate concerning the Stop Online Piracy Act almost peaked when Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said the House proposal "would mean the end of the internet as we know it."...

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Geeks to Testify (Finally!) About SOPA Blacklisting Implications

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California), a major opponent of the Stop Online Piracy Act, announced Monday he is bringing in the techies to hold a public hearing highlighting the online security implications...

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Judge Ties Up Online Sex-Advertising Law

A federal judge blocked a landmark state law requiring online companies to verify the ages of people in ads offering "adult services" such as escorts or even prostitution.

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Obama’s Efforts to Control Media Are ‘Most Aggressive’ Since Nixon, Report Says

The President Barack Obama administration has “chilled the flow of information on issues of great public interest,” according to a Thursday report that amounts to an indictment of the president’s...

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