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January 28 is Data Privacy Day
An anonymous reader writes "A bit early, but just a reminder that January 28 is international Data Privacy Day in the U.S., Canada, and many European countries. Various events are being held around the globe: the head of the FTC opened a weekend forum on the topic by calling out Facebook and Google, the Ontario Privacy Commissioner is holding a symposium on 'Surveillance by Design', and of course Google recently announced they'll be tracking you more thoroughly in the future."
Darn
This signature has Super Cow Powers
Switching from Dropbox to SpiderOak to celebrate.
I'm sure it will be properly celebrated by the stakeholders at Google, Zynga, Apple, Facebook, and USGov sitting in their offices and giggling quietly to themselves throughout the day.
Just how many $TRUMPED_UP_LAME_ASS days do we need in any given year? If elected President of the USA I will sign an executive order making it illegal to declare anymore $TRUMPED_UP_LAME_ASS days.
My karma is not a Chameleon.
Spook BackDoors In Cisco Routers (continued - revision 3)
- Older news, but still relevant!!
Please save this story and repost it everywhere
Especially in Security Discussion Forum Sites
- You should use OpenBSD or a hardened Linux distro
For a router, NOT these blackboxes offered with
proprietary hardware & firmware!
"More on Cisco Building Surveillance into Routers"
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/04/22/1656215/more-on-cisco-building-surveillance-into-routers
PDF: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-10/Cross_Tom/BlackHat-DC-2010-Cross-Attacking-LawfulI-Intercept-wp.pdf
PDF2: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-10/Cross_Tom/BlackHat-DC-2010-Cross-Attacking-LawfulI-Intercept-slides.pdf
Is Apparent US Conspiracy with Cisco about Wiretapping?
By: emptywheel Monday June 6, 2011 2:52 pm
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/06/06/it-is-simply-not-done-in-a-civilized-jurisdiction-that-is-bound-by-the-rule-of-law/
Canada has just discovered how much corporations own our legal system, how our legal system criminalizes whistleblowers, and our utter and total disdain for the rule of law.
At issue is the apparent conspiracy between Cisco and the US government to respond to an anti-trust lawsuit launched by Peter Alfred Adekeye, a former Cisco employee. He sued because of the way Cisco forced customers to buy a maintenance contract for things like bug fixes.
This lawsuit is about Ciscoâ(TM)s deliberate and continuing attempt to monopolize for itself (and its âoepartnersâ (Cisco-authorized resellers of Cisco equipment and services nationwide) with which it does not significantly compete) the service and maintenance of Cisco enterprise (Cisco networking equipment for all segments (e.g., internet service providers, government, academia, small, medium and large business, etc.) with the exception of home networking equipment) hardware, principally routers, switches and firewalls. Cisco possesses a market share of approximately 70% in the networking equipment industry.
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To protect its over $6 billion yearly stream of service and maintenance revenue, Cisco has cleverly and uniquely conditioned the provision of its software âoeupdatesâ on the customerâ(TM)s purchase of a hardware maintenance service agreement called âoeSMARTnet,â
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The effect of this leveraging of monopoly power and unlawful tie-in and/or bundling is to effectively preclude any non-Cisco affiliated Independent Service Organization (âoeISOâ) from competing for the business of servicing Cisco networking hardware, thus preserving for itself all but a pittance of that line of commerce which is separate and distinct from the âoeupdatesâ of its software.
In response, Cisco counter-sued, accusing Adekeye of illegally accessing Cisco services. And Cisco either lied persuasively or got DOJ to conspire in the intimidation campaign, because DOJ then charged Adekeye with 97 violations thatâ"the Canadian judge who just blew this up suggestedâ"should have only amounted to one single violation.
The US also refused to allow Adekeye to enter the US after 2008, meaning he couldnâ(TM)t testify in the litigation. Finally, in 2010, he flew to Canada to testify. At t
I want to join !! Do they take American Express ?? How about Western Union ??
As long as the website tells the truth in its privacy policy, https://ixquick.com/ will be more secure than Google.
there is also DuckDuckGo
SSSHHH!! Don't tell anyone!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Quick! Everybody live-Tweet the event!
And don't forget to update your Facebook status!
...or lack thereof.
I acknowledge you my liege, lord and King.
Is it just me or did anyone else read that as data piracy day?
OTOH if you restrict access to your website (IP Deny) how can they skim the data?
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
There is only XUL.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
Look, instead of charging everybody 10 bucks a month which everyone would whine about paying we've gone ahead compiling a comprehensive and indestructible dossier on every man, woman, and child in the developed world, and crunching the data through a MapReduce farm 24x7 to figure out what people are likely to be thinking and doing next. We'll know what you're likely to do before YOU do.
Peace,
Larry, Sergei, and Eric
Data Piracy Day and was thinking "yes". Everyone turn everything on to download stuff at the same time. Make those "legitament business use" people beg for mercy.
When I stood for MAKES ME SICK JUST vitality. Its yes, I work for new core is going percent of the *bSD the longest or turd-suckingly developers live and a job to
Sure, 4 days away from avoiding Black History Month!
Sometimes I feel like there is a computer that randomly puts a few words together, put a random day of the year, then tell everyone what to do for a day. I take all these "_____ _____ day" as a joke now. Along withe "___-____month" as a joke. I'm going to make Jan 31 Tell a secret day.