The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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The government's request included the email addresses of people Mr. Appelbaum corresponded with the past two years, but not the full emails.
Both Google and Sonic pressed for the right to inform Mr. Appelbaum of the secret court orders, according to people familiar with the investigation. Google declined to comment. Mr. Appelbaum, 28 years old, hasn't been charged with wrongdoing.
Digits
The court clashes in the WikiLeaks case provide a rare public window into the growing debate over a federal law that lets the government secretly obtain information from people's email and cellphones without a search warrant.

After all, it was IBM that stood to benefit the most from OpenOffice.org joining the ASF. IBM is still making Lotus Symphony and are marketing this OpenOffice.org-based suite as a business desktop application. Because of this vested interest, Big Blue should be much happier keeping OpenOffice.org with the ASF than The Document Foundation.
Why? Because now that OpenOffice.org is part of the ASF, the OpenOffice.org office suite is licensed under the Apache Software License (ASL) v2. This means IBM and any other Apache OpenOffice.org project member can innovate the OpenOffice.org source code for their own purposes and not be obligated to give back to the mainline OpenOffice.org code, since the ASL is a non-copyleft license. [...]
Okay, so given that IBM should have a lot to gain from an active Apache-licensed OpenOffice.org, where's the money?

“We are only company in world that can protect you from Russian hackers.” Russia's startup might. http://t.co/923L1g50 via @WiredEnterprise

Geografie-Nachschulung? "Am Wr. Landesgericht Kontrollen wie am Flughafen in Manhattan" http://t.co/UYMDf1UE cc @derstandard_at #fail

Doodle für das nächste Skgt-Twittagessen am 23.10. - bitte RT http://t.co/SD7n86DQ

Datenprojekt macht die versteckten Milliarden der EU sichtbar http://t.co/1qmVGGCn #opendata /via @markusheidmeier

übrigens haben wir zwei spannende Stellen zu vergeben für technik begeisterte http://t.co/SyXx1tdr und http://t.co/lhOfkhPH

übrigens haben wir zwei spannende Stellen zu vergeben für technik begeisterte http://t.co/SyXx1tdr und http://t.co/lhOfkhPH

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“@nojokesforyou: Guter Artikel über Anonymous/Hacking. http://t.co/NGjm4kB9 ..."

Is your Domino environment secure? Are you sure about that? http://t.co/tpabmaZH

Die @constanzekurz berichtet wieder aus dem Maschinenraum und diesmal natürlich über den Staatstrojaner http://t.co/U23H1KYB Must read!

Many hotels now available for #Lotusphere 2012, get your bookings in fast! http://t.co/J3kawoJK #LS12

Corruption Scandals in Austria: A Web of Sleaze in Elegant Vienna - SPIEGEL ONLINE - http://t.co/gAFvCabi @digiom Is this for real?!

Es ist wieder Zeit. Der Wolfgang Lorenz Gedenkpreis für internetfreie Minuten 2011: http://t.co/V373aelR #wolo11

RT @CarlaSchroder: Authenticating Wi-Fi Users with FreeRADIUS http://t.co/rr2zbSC0 yeah baby, a howto that works!

10.11.2011, Wien: #twittagessen-1469 http://t.co/kCpackpV