USA Court Shuts Down WikiLeaks
The wikileaks is a wiki website which allows anyone to publish anonymously documents that may prove illegal activities of companies and governments worldwide.
From time to time it has been the center of media since many scandals had been reveled through its thousands of users. Few days ago the Court of California ordered Dynadot that controls wikileaks.org to erase it from its servers. The reason was a lawsuit made from a Swiss bank which according to wikileaks it was used to launder money. Instead of serving a fine to wikileaks or an order to remove the documents in question etc, they decided to discontinue the service of the domain.
Wikileaks may not be accessible anymore but it can still be found through its IP http://88.80.13.160. Unfortunately, I think though this act they have found a way to battle “successfully” such revelations.
Beware Today of the Storm Worm Virus
For the past few days the (botnet Trojan) Storm virus is using St. Valentine’s day as an excuse to continue to spread its destructive job. Today the FBI thinks this is the most dangerous day and made a special announcement to warn us all.
The Storm Worm is spreading by using various holidays, like a Christmas card, Easter message etc. This time St. Valentine’s day is its next target.
If you receive an eCard with subject “You are the one”, “Falling in Love with you” and it seems a bit strange (ie you do not know the sender) then stay away. Especially if the message contain a valentine.exe!
It is the second year that this virus is going around and this time its is more evolved. If your PC gets infected then it becomes a part of a Botnet network in which all infected computers are used mainly for illegal activities such (spam mails, identity theft etc)
See the FBI’s announcement here
U2 and their adorable manager
Paul McGuinness, U2 manager for the last 30 years, addressed delegates at an international music industry conference, held in France, and made some statements that made him very adorable by Internet users.
He said that ISP’s are ?shoddy, careless and downright dishonest way they have been treated in the digital age?
He also went against governments that do not monitor ISP’s and what their users download and also against technology companies that make things easier for people to share music.
So he demands from ISP’s to do two things:
1. They need to ban the “criminal illegal downloading users”, by canceling their Internet connection (this would be very popular)
2. Charge users for every mp3 they download and give it to the music industry
Rapidshare closing down?
Bad news for Rapidshare as the Dusseldorf court in Germany ordered the immediate block of all illegal (copyrighted) files within the site.
I do not know how fast this new ban will be but at this moment Rapidshare is one of the most popular download hosts. As we know it is very difficult to control and check millions of submitted files so the future of Rapidshare is not looking good. After all Rapidshare’s reputation grew from the existence of illegal files in it.
Lets see what will happens!
Concealed weapons scanner by QinetiQ
QinetiQ manage to sell to the US authorities 12 rapid scanners that see beneath our cloths if we are carrying anything illegal. Not sure if this new method of peep-show is in violation of our rights or an excellent security measure, but all this does feel a bit “Big Brother” and makes you wonder how far the authorities will take it to protect us from terrorists.
Nevertheless to protect your privacy you can purchase lead underwear here.
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Copy your CD in your PC and get sued by RIAA
There is a story moving about in internet lately about a guy called Jeffrey Howell from Scottsdale, Arizona who was sued by the RIAA for ripping his own CD’s. This truth was that he was accused of illegal downloading. Nevertheless the fact is that according to RIAA “it is illegal for anyone to transfer music from his own (legal) CD’s to his/her PC. Apparently CD rips are considered as unauthorized copies so go delete all (if any) rips that you might have made because you might end up in having to pay a fine!
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