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How to Make Your VPN Even More Secure

April 16, 2012 / admin / No comments

From Lifehacker:

In the past few years, VPN services have hit the big time—especially among BitTorrent users. These days more and more internet users see running a privacy enhancing service as a requirement rather than just a luxury. They’re not always perfect, though. Here are a few tips and tricks that can enhance the security of any VPN.

While simple to set up and use out of the box, it may come as a surprise that the security of VPN anonymity services can be improved. Of course, when things run absolutely to plan there’s little to worry about, but there are occasions where there may be a hiccup or where an extra level of security is needed.

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User uploads to YouTube hit one hour per second – Boing Boing

March 29, 2012 / admin / No comments

From BoingBoing:

User uploads to YouTube have hit one hour per second – that is, sixty hours per minute. It’s a testament to how much latent expression there is in the world, waiting for a distribution platform to make it possible to share it. Before you dismiss this with the shibboleth about YouTube being nothing but illegal footage of copyrighted works and trivial footage of kittens, consider this, an excerpt from a book I’m working on at the moment:

A common tactic in discussions about the Internet as a free speech medium is to discount Internet discourse as inherently trivial. Who cares about cute pictures of kittens, inarticulate YouTube trolling, and blog posts about what you had for lunch or what your toddler said on the way to day-care? Do we really want to trade all the pleasure and economic activity generated by the entertainment industry for *that*? The usual rebuttal is to point out all the “worthy” ways that we communicate online: the scholarly discussions, the terminally ill comforting one another, the distance education that lifts poor and excluded people out of their limited straits, the dissidents who post videos of secret police murdering street protesters.

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Trove of free, public domain HD video – Boing Boing

March 19, 2012 / admin / No comments

From BoingBoing:

Rick Prelinger sez,

I’m delighted to let everyone know about our newest Internet Archive collection which, for want of a cooler title, we’re calling 35mm Stock Footage. Digitized from 35mm original negatives and release prints dating back to the first decade of the 20th century, these unedited sequences were shot for feature films but never used. Studio librarians saved them for use in future productions, and now you can download and use them yourself in a variety of formats, including 720p HD, absolutely free. As far as I know, this is Internet Archive’s first all-HD collection.

In the first wave of materials: a trip across the George Washington Bridge in the late 1940s, a snake slithering on rainy ground, aerials of Hollywood studios, 1940s Southern California hotrodders, stunt flying, miniature airplanes crashing, the Staten Island Ferry in the 1930s, and much more. Much of the footage is “process plates” — film shot for the rear-projection screens you see out of car, taxi and train windows in old movies.

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Canadian cops want to add a spying tax to phone bills to pay for warrantless wiretapping – Boing Boing

March 16, 2012 / admin / No comments

From BoingBoing:

Michael Geist, “One of the major unanswered questions about Bill C-30, Canada’s lawful access/online surveillance bill, is who will pay for the costs associated with responding to law enforcement demands for subscriber information (‘look ups’) and installation of surveillance equipment (‘hook ups’). I recently obtained documents from Public Safety under the Access to Information Act that indicates that the government doesn’t really have its own answer. But apparently the police do. The documents indicate they proposed a new ‘public safety’ tax to be added to Internet and wireless bills.”

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Canada’s Parliament summons Anonymous to testify – Boing Boing

March 12, 2012 / admin / No comments

From BoingBoing:

Idlepigeon sez, “Canada’s government has moved to call Anonyomous to testify before the House Affairs Comitte, over threats made to a minister who’s been pushing to pass Bill C30—online surveillance legislation. In this very funny piece from the Globe and Mail‘s Tabatha Southey, the entire Internet shows up to testify.”

Anonymous is so nebulous that for the federal government to call Anonymous to testify is almost to call the Internet itself – something the government may regret.

“I’d to thank the committee for the opportunity to speak today,” the first witness might say. “The threats against the minister are grave and on the advice of my consul, Mr. Fry, I’d just like to assure the minister that I … am never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna … ”

When political hacks subpoena online hackers, look out for :-(

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