Misblog

The Open Net Initiative (ONI) has consolidated five years of nation-state Internet censorship and surveillance research into a recently published book, Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering.Access Denied significantly ad… more »

I think this is a effort to increase heterogeneity among browser users—seamonkey is not listed (probably because its a browser, mail, chat suite), but is definitely worth a look see, too. more »

Nations are beginning their foray into the "weaponization" or "militarization" of our open Internet and will continue unless stopped. Some steps we can take: First, prohibit by international convention the weaponization or militarization of our… more »

A winning MIT team using social networks coordinated the identification of 10 American cities in less than nine hours1 from the secret and simultaneous raising of a publicly viewable large red balloon over those cities.The whimsical DARPA contest’s p… more »

The site New Threads (新语丝 Xin Yu Si), run by a Chinese citizen living in California has been blocked by China’s CCP—it’s a site dedicated to disclosing academic misconduct (e.g. plagiarism, cheating, research fraud etc.).Onl… more »

One positive impact of our government’s newly increased interest in the Internet is that phishing and other Internet scamming schemes seem to be getting more attention.Neither has our FBI lost its traditional sense of humor, naming its most recent tw… more »

The United States (US) is correct to boycott the United Nations (UN) conference on racism out of concern that paragraph 145 of the Durban, South Africa Declaration could be interpreted by some States as justification for restricting unfetter Internet spe… more »

Spammer, Edward Davidson is heading to prison for a 21-month vacation after pleading guilty to tax evasion and using false spam e-mail’s headers promoting 19 companies in pump and dump stock activity. Blog: WP, Security Fix, Cyber Justice Chronicles… more »

Yesterday, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) held public hearings at Stanford University, on the important topic of Broadband Network Management Practices. A hearing transcript should eventually show up in the FCC E-Document 2008 index here or F… more »

We are discovering that some things function better when they are controlled the least—the internet is one of those things (you are another). The folks over at Save the Internet “get it” and have been working very hard to ensure others “get it”.… more »