Rightscorp has been awarded a patent by the Australian Patent Office which should protect it from competitors looking to muscle in on its business model Down Under. The patent protects a system which helps Rightscorp identify repeat infringers, individuals it is now targeting in the United States with settlement demands and lawsuits.
Source: Rightscorp Granted Australian Patent to Chase Pirates – TorrentFreak
In a landmark ruling that will have far-reaching repercussions, Europe’s highest court has ruled that data sharing between the EU and US under the Safe Harbour framework is invalid.
Source: Safe Harbour ruled INVALID: Facebook ‘n’ pals’ data slurp at risk • The Register
From the start, not even the U.S. military had the audacity to try to obscure that they did this. They left that dirty work to their leading media outlets which, as usual, are more than eager and happy to comply.
Source: CNN and the NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated the Afghan Hospital Attack
Wyoming law—which forbids testing water quality, taking photos—is being challenged.
Source: There are laws making it illegal to collect data on open land | Ars Technica
Copyright holders celebrated a landmark victory early September when a Norwegian court ordered local ISPs to block the Pirate Bay. A breakthrough verdict perhaps, but one with a major flaw as the rightsholder forgot to list one of the site’s main domain names.
Source: Norway’s Pirate Bay Block Rendered Useless by ‘Mistake’ – TorrentFreak
Leaked docs show how out-of-control spy agency went full Stasi on innocent surfers
Source: KARMA POLICE: GCHQ spooks spied on every web user ever • The Register
Your secrets sold to advertisers
Source: AVG to flog your web browsing, search history from mid-October
Someone recently noticed a Washington Post story on the TSA that originally contained a detailed photograph of all the TSA master keys. It’s now blurred out of the Washington Post story, but the image is still floating around the Internet. The whole thing neatly illustrates one of the main problems with backdoors, whether in cryptographic systems or physical systems: they’re fragile.
