A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity.

The “Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities” contained in the flyer are not to be construed alone as a sign of terrorist activity and the document notes that “just because someone’s speech, actions, beliefs, appearance, or way of life is different; it does not mean that he or she is suspicious.” However, many of the activities described in the document are basic practices of any individual concerned with security or privacy online. The use of PGP, VPNs, Tor or any of the many other technologies for anonymity and privacy online are directly targeted by the flyer, which is distributed to businesses in an effort to promote the reporting of these activities.

#incommunicado gibt es jetzt auch als EPUB, dank freundlicher unterstützung gleich doppelt: http://t.co/eKV6zZY5

Neulich im Parlament: "Wie viele ÖsterreicherInnen benutzen Sexspielzeuge wie Vibratoren und Analplugs?" "Keine Ahnung" http://t.co/RgVeT0bU

Debian boot scripts make it possible to key in your password using the power button using input-events, though I only did this once and I have to admit that it is quite paranoid even for my standards.

Auch Apples durchschlagender Erfolg des iTunes-Stores beruht auf der gleichen simplen Erkenntnis wie Amazons E-Book-Erfolge: Die Nutzer zahlen durchaus für Inhalte, solange es billig, einfach und bequem ist und bruchlos funktioniert. Die deutsche Medienbranche sitzt vor dieser einfachen Wahrheit immer noch wie das Kaninchen vor der Technologie-Schlange – und ruft nach immer härterer gesetzlicher Gängelung der Nutzer.

Federal authorities said Thursday they had seized and shuttered 307 domains, 16 allegedly engaged in unauthorized live sports streaming and the remainder accused of selling fake professional sports merchandise, including National Football League paraphernalia.

“While most people are focusing on whether the Patriots or Giants will win on Sunday, we at ICE have our sights on a different type of victory: defeating the international counterfeiting rings that illegally profit off of this event, the NFL, its players and sports fans,” said ICE Director Morton.

Federal authorities are taking .com, .org. and .net domains under the same civil-seizure law the government invokes to seize brick-and-mortar drug houses, bank accounts and other property tied to alleged illegal activity. The feds are able to seize the domains because Verisign, which controls the .net and .com names, and the Public Interest Registry, which runs .org, are U.S.-based organizations

VeriSign Inc, the company in charge of delivering people safely to more than half the world's websites, has been hacked repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from the leading Internet infrastructure company.

The previously unreported breaches occurred in 2010 at the Reston, Virginia-based company, which is ultimately responsible for the integrity of Web addresses ending in .com, .net and .gov.

The VeriSign attacks were revealed in a quarterly U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing in October that followed new guidelines on reporting security breaches to investors. It was the most striking disclosure to emerge in a review by Reuters of more than 2,000 documents mentioning breach risks since the SEC guidance was published.

Von einer Aushöhlung der bürgerlichen Freiheiten und des Rechtsstaates wollten die Abgeordneten von ÖVP und SPÖ nichts wissen. Nicht einmal Johann Maier (SPÖ), seines Zeichens Vorsitzender des Österreichischen Datenschutzrates, sah in der geplanten Ausdehnung der "erweiterten Gefahrenerforschung" auf Einzelpersonen ein Problem. Dabei könne der einzelne Bürger schon durch unbedachte Äußerungen zum potentiellen Überwachungsobjekt werden; Observation oder der Einsatz verdeckter Ermittler mit Ton- und Bildaufnahmegeräten sind dann auch hinsichtlich einzelner Personen zulässige Überwachungsmethoden, wie Albert Steinhauser, Justizsprecher der Grünen, im Vorfeld kritisiert hatte.

RT @thetechscribe: GPL enforcement sparks community flames http://t.co/O5J85x8K <- Throwing the GPL baby out with the enforcement bath...

Son-of-ACTA, the TPP, wants to legislate buffers http://t.co/6hoLalf9

"May future generations look back on our work and say that these were men and women who, in a moment of great... http://t.co/FD2cDmMS

Trauer um Mike Kelley http://t.co/EOfx9SeN

Hardening the #Linux #Server: An intro to GNU/Linux server security from @DeveloperWorks at #IBM http://t.co/oEhlzoCl

Neu im Blog: Ist die #ACTA-Hysterie berechtigt? http://t.co/wUXgYySG

So. Und die SPG-Novelle mit Einzeltäterbeobachtung ist durch den Ausschuss. http://t.co/IgbVunG0

Mint's Cinnamon: The Future of the Linux Desktop? (Review) http://t.co/RkW0PPqm #Linux #Mint by @sjvn

IBM Connections team wants your help with their #SXSWi session on Enterprise Social Media: http://t.co/jQ6ixTJJ #SXsocbiz5

Great read on #OpenSocial & #XPages by Niklas Heidloff. Includes #LS 12 socialize your aps pres http://t.co/6w9vwyef #IBMSocialBiz - vb

Neal Stephenson keynoting the Black Hat conference in Vegas (would love to have an excuse to go) https://t.co/0oTvBpKN