Blog Posts Tagged with "Censorship"
The Pirate Bay Labels DDoS Attacks as Censorship
May 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Critics of DDoS attacks conducted by movements like Anonymous have long held that it is hypocritical to profess the defense of free speech by engaging in a tactic that undermines one's right to freely communicate, whether the interest is sociopolitical or an effort to engage in commerce...
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Anonymous Now Interested in the Great Firewall of China
February 18, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Why have they not targeted China before? Hypothetically, the structure of Anonymous could have been infiltrated and directed against the Chinese as part of a strategy defined by the West, or perhaps someone is using the name Anonymous to conduct undercover operations...
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DDoS Attacks Against Government and Entertainment Websites Escalate
January 19, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Multiple websites appear to be under DDoS attack, including the DoJ's http://justice.gov, the Recording Industry Association of America's http://riaa.com, and music publisher Universal Music's http://universalmusic.com...
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SOPA/PIPA: The Internet Goes to Washington on January 18
January 13, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Representative Darrell Issa, an outspoken SOPA critic and the author of alternative legislation called the OPEN Act, has announced that Congress will hold a hearing to hear from actual technical experts, technology job creators, Internet investors and legal scholars...
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Hacktivism: The End Result Versus the End Goal
January 01, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Unless your cave doesn't get the news, you've seen the barrage of and hacking over the past several months. If experience teaches us anything these folks are holding the final nail in the coffin of Internet freedom as it's driven in by the government they fear...
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On 2011: The Year of System Failure
December 30, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
If you really want to see why so much has happened with Anonymous, WikiLeaks, Manning, and OWS you need only look toward Capitol Hill and smell the rank problem that is our governing body. We have are at an apex that has reached the lows of the Roman empire in its decline...
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Internet Architects Oppose SOPA and PIPA Legislation
December 19, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Eighty-three innovators, inventors and engineers signed the letter that specifically calls for Congress to reject the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in an attempt to prevent government efforts to codify broad Internet censorship powers...
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Western Companies in Collusion with Chinese Oppression
September 21, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Entering into the Chinese market as a search engine or social media provider is an ethical mine field. In the hands of authorities determined to police their subjects, search engines and social media platforms such as Facebook can become a potent tool of online repression..."
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Researchers Develop No-Proxy Anonymity System
July 18, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"The client secretly marks the connection as a Telex request by inserting a cryptographic tag into the headers. We construct this tag using a mechanism called public-key steganography... only the Telex service (using a private key) can recognize that a connection has been tagged..."
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Protect IP Act Would Allow Government to Block Websites
May 16, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The legislation would also require search engines to eliminate references to the offending sites from their search indexing, as well as require advertising networks and payment services to cease business with the blacklisted sites...
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Mozilla Defies DHS Internet Censorship Request
May 09, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Mozilla, the non-profit company behind the Firefox Web browser, has initially refused a Department of Homeland Security request to remove a third-party tool that allows users to circumvent government URL blocking efforts...
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Anonymous Movement is Fueled by Cowardice
January 02, 2011 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
The Anonymous DDoS attacks should be rightfully categorized as just another form of mass censorship driven by the tantrums of politically and philosophically infantile neophytes who lack any substantial moral convictions, and who are easily swayed by the pseudo-rage of a mob mentality...
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Developers Seek to Sharpen LOIC DDoS Attack Tool
December 15, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Given the amount of effort involved in mounting long term campaigns that seek to shape public opinion through reasoned discourse, the LOIC seems to be a logical alternative. The stark irony that such a tool would be spawned by the radical proponents of free speech will not be lost on historians...
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