Skype restricted my paid account, without recourse, over a billing hiccup | Ars Technica

I fixed it by playing the journalist card—but regular customers might not be so lucky.

Source: Skype restricted my paid account, without recourse, over a billing hiccup | Ars Technica

DEA Impersonating Medical Board Investigators To Gain Access To Personal Health Records | Techdirt

“It’s not like there’s ten of them. There’s probably thousands — I know there are thousands,” Matt Barden, spokesman for the DEA, told the Daily Caller News Foundation about the DEA’s use of administrative subpoenas.

Source: DEA Impersonating Medical Board Investigators To Gain Access To Personal Health Records | Techdirt

WordPress Adds Subaru to Takedown “Hall of Shame” – TorrentFreak

WordPress.com is taking a strong stance against rightsholders who abuse its takedown process. The company maintains a “hall of shame” which recently expanded with the addition of Subaru. The car manufacturer tried to take down a blog which was created in response to one of Subaru’s own contests.

Source: WordPress Adds Subaru to Takedown “Hall of Shame” – TorrentFreak

HP Drops Support For Hacking Competition As Wassenaar Arrangement Continues To Make Computing Less Safe | Techdirt

The next scheduled Pwn2Own hacking competition has lost Hewlett-Packard as its longstanding sponsor amid legal concerns that the company could run afoul of recent changes to an international treaty that governs software exploits.

Dragos Ruiu, organizer of both Pwn2Own and the PacSec West security conference in Japan, said HP lawyers spent more than $1 million researching the recent changes to the so-called Wassenaar Arrangement. He said they ultimately concluded that the legal uncertainty and compliance hurdles were too high for them to move forward.

Source: HP Drops Support For Hacking Competition As Wassenaar Arrangement Continues To Make Computing Less Safe | Techdirt

Pirate Party Offers Uncensored DNS to Bypass Pirate Bay Blockade – TorrentFreak

The Norwegian Pirate Party has made a big statement by launching a free DNS service which allows Internet users to bypass the local Pirate Bay blockade. The party advocates a free and open Internet for everyone and believes that the recent website blockades set a dangerous precedent.

Source: Pirate Party Offers Uncensored DNS to Bypass Pirate Bay Blockade – TorrentFreak

Feds accuse X-Art/Malibu Media’s attorney Jason Aaron Kotzker of a $7,000,000 payday loan fraud | Fight Copyright Trolls

From at least 2011 to at least 2013, Defendants operated as data brokers, collecting and selling sensitive consumer information from consumer payday loan applications to non-lenders.

In particular, Defendants sold this information to at least one non-lender, Ideal Financial Solutions, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, “Ideal Financial”), knowing or having reason to know that Ideal Financial used the information to make unauthorized debits from the consumers’ bank accounts.

Source: Feds accuse X-Art/Malibu Media’s attorney Jason Aaron Kotzker of a $7,000,000 payday loan fraud | Fight Copyright Trolls

When Black Lives Didn’t Matter in New Orleans

Ten years ago today, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, police gunned down two black families on Danziger Bridge. A new book by Ronnie Greene tells their story.

Source: When Black Lives Didn’t Matter in New Orleans