Horny Jo’s Daily Blog

Lucas123 writes “Amnesty International is warning that the Internet “could change beyond all recognition” because state-sponsored censorship has spread from a handful of countries to dozens of governments that apply mandated net filtering, and because companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have remained complicit, according to a BBC story. ‘”More and more governments are realising the utility of controlling what people see online and major internet companies, in an attempt to expand their markets, are colluding in these attempts,”‘ said Tim Hancock, Amnesty’s campaign director.”

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Caroline Matische writes “People are willing to pay more to buy items from online retailers who make their privacy policies clear, a new Carnegie Mellon University study showed. People were more likely to buy from online merchants with good privacy policies and were also willing to pay about 60 cents extra on a $15 purchase when buying from a site with a privacy policy they liked.”

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palewook writes “Yesterday, Safwat Fahmy appeared in front of the House Science and Technology Committee. During Fahmy’s testimony [PDF], he claimed Safemedia’s “P2P Disaggregator” technology uses traffic-shaping systems and network-filtering systems that can destroy contaminated P2P networks. And their Clouseau product will make it impossible to send or receive any illegal P2P transmission on any installed network. However, Clouseau allows tunneling and SSH and never opens packets to determine file legality.”

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