Remember those Net Neutrality videos you watched on CC a while ago? Turns out some corporation not only wants to control the Internet traffic, they want to block public forums as well. Last year Comcast, one of the biggest cable companies and Internet Service Providers in the United States, was caught injecting forged TCP/RST packets into users’ traffic to interfere with their BitTorrent uploads and downloads. FCC, or the Federal Communications Commission, therefore set up a public hearing to take place on February 25th at the Harvard Law School on a first-come, first-served basis. Based on discussions on this public forum as well as written comments from private citizens, the regulators may establish on what ISPs may and may not do.
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February 29th, 2008
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It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! Do you know Internet Explorer is not only transmitting all sorts of nasty computer diseases to users and giving security experts headaches, it’s also a big nightmare for web designers?
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December 28th, 2007
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It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! As promised, we’re going to tell you why Internet Explorer (IE), the browser inflicted on every Windows system by Bill Gate, is bad news. You’ve heard security advisers all over the world asking people to dump IE and use alternative browsers, such as Firefox or Opera, but you’re still clicking that IE icon out of habit. You’re probably wondering: why is IE dangerous? Are there fundamental differences between different browsers besides cosmetic ones?Well keep reading. Internet Explorer might sound better than Firefox or Opera – it does invoke that bravado,daredevil in us doesn’t it, but by using IE you’re not just exploring the Internet, you’re probably letting attackers explore your computer too.
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November 23rd, 2007
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Thailand is banning YouTube for hosting videos ridiculing the monarchy, after giving a 10-year prison term only last week to a Swiss man for spraying graffiti on the poster of the king. Weeks after lifting a similar ban on YouTube, Turkey is now considering blocking all websites that are insulting to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, as well as websites with information on Kurdish rebels in the country.
So what do you do when your dictator governments are denying you access to information on the Internet? Reporters Without Borders offers some technical ways to get around censorship.
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April 7th, 2007
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