
The Internet Is Actually Controlled By 14 People Who Hold 7 Secret Keys
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Julie BortThis sounds like something out of a Dan Brown book, but it isn't: The whole Internet is controlled by seven actual, physical keys.
This sounds like something out of a Dan Brown book, but it isn't: The whole Internet is controlled by seven actual, physical keys.
Last week, 20 people met in London to discuss how they were going to take over control of the internet.
When the Senate passed legislation last year allowing states broader latitude to collect sales on online purchases, the proposal was immediately cast aside in the House — and there is has remained, stuck on a shelf. Until now.
IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane said in transcribed congressional testimony that more IRS officials experienced computer crashes, bringing the total number of crash victims to "less than 20," and also said that the agency does not know
Researchers at Aalborg University, MIT and Caltech have developed a new mathematically-based technique that can boost internet data speeds by up to 10 times, by making the nodes of a network much smarter and more adaptable
The website Extortion Letter Info was slapped with an extraordinary "gag order" forcing it to remove 2,000 posts related to Linda Ellis, a writer who has a long record of sending copyright demand letters over "The Dash," a poem Ellis claims she compo
How Aaron Swartz went from Internet Activist to Martyr
The internet is littered with burgeoning email encryption schemes aimed at thwarting NSA spying.
Cockroaches are some of the most resilient creatures on earth. They can live for 45 minutes without air and over a month without food. Cutting their heads off won't even kill them—at least not immediately. Their bodies can live on for several days wi
The establishment media is now diligently building a case against Russia in the downing of MH17 over eastern Ukraine.
Project Zero has been launched by internet giant Google. The ststed goal of the mission is to protect the World Wide Web from hackers and malicious users. The elite team of computer researchers will scour the internet, looking for viruses, malwar
There's not much good you can count on Congress to accomplish, but when it comes to introducing and passing oligarch protecting, civil liberties destroying legislation, our "representatives" are absolutely relentless in their determination.
We have all run into them. All over the Internet, there are horrible trolls that seem to delight in making life miserable for other people. But the worst trolls of all are the government trolls.
It was one of the most tedious jobs on the internet. A team of Googlers would spend day after day staring at computer screens, scrutinizing tiny snippets of street photographs, asking themselves the same question over and over again: "Am I looking at
When 17-year-old George Hotz became the world's first hacker to crack AT&T's lock on the iPhone in 2007, the companies officially ignored him while scrambling to fix the bugs his work exposed.
The heroic Glenn Greenwald catalogs more invasive tactics and practices by fascistic authorities. They include: ....
"The behavior remains illegal," said Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Casey Bates, who heads the office's human exploitation and trafficking unit. "When people say it's a victimless crime, that's not true."
secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed tools to seed the net with false info, including the ability to fake the results of online polls, fake pageview counts on web sites, "amplif[y]" sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor "extremist" vi
Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson are cruising north through Texas on Interstate 35 in the 4:30 am predawn darkness. (Publisher: I talked to Cody and he'll share updates with us this coming week on Radio Show... Galactic Shifts)
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Government using charges against Ross Ulbricht as trojan horse to pass chilling laws that would make website owners criminally responsible for users' actions
Beginning Monday, July 7th at 6am Eastern, WGRR-DB, which currently broadcasts from DailyPaulRadio.com, will merge with Truth Be Told Media, Inc., and launch the first talk radio station to provide access to a continuous round-the-clock stream of liv
Should defendants be forced to discuss their online porn proclivities as part of copyright cases? One rightsholder says yes—and wants details, such as what sites defendants have visited and what style of erotic material they prefer.
Ubervita sells testosterone boosters, multivitamins, and weight loss supplements, and now the company wants a judge to order Amazon.com to cough up the identities of those behind a "campaign of dirty tricks against
Porcfest - Lyn Ulbricht speaks about FreeRoss org
South Korea laps the world in average Internet connection speeds, clocking an amazing 23.6 Mbps, leaving in its dust second-place Japan, which could only muster a meager 14.6 Mbps.
Popcorn Time is a miracle: It lets you stream torrents of movies and TV shows as though they were on Netflix or Hulu. Is it illegal? Probably!
How regional networks may replace the World Wide Web
Two Germany-based Tor Directory Authority servers, among others, have been specifically targeted by the National Security Agency's XKeyscore program, according to a new report from German public broadcaster ARD. Tor is a well-known open source projec
The Google purge has begun in Europe.