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Many governments and organizations are not taking the Spy Scandal lightly. BRICS countries are building their own internet. As Reuters notes: * The BRICS countries make up 21 percent of global GDP. They have increased their share of global GDP threefold in the past 15 years. * The BRICS are home to 43 percent of […]
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It should come as no surprise to those who have been following the NSA Spy scandal unfolding that regulators are passing laws to protect data from prying agencies. The Guardian reports from Brussels today: Regulations on European data protection standards are expected to pass the European parliament committee stage on Monday after the various political […]
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The security scandal, financial crisis, and other world events are changing the way users engage the internet and changing the way we do business. Global Intel Hub proposes a new model based on synthesis which incorporate your internet activity (workflow), security, privacy, and filter out spam and other unwanted distractions and risks. Structured Consulting will […]
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UK mobile providers, including O2 and its reseller GiffGaff, areblocking commercial VPN providers that help to secure sensitive communications from criminals, hackers and government spies. In particular, O2/GiffGaff block IPREDator, my favorite VPN service. The carriers claim that because these services could be use to bypass their Internet censorship tools — switched on by default, a regime […]
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(see story here) “The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” — John Gilmore If your employer or corrupt, undemocratic, dictator-based government uses a filtering service such as Secure Computing’s SmartFilter to block access to BoingBoing.net — or anything else online — you can try the following workarounds: Distributed BoingBoing mirrors everything on BoingBoing.net at random […]
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What is Tor? The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are […]
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