Plans for protest of the latest threat to the free internet. Demonstrate and Boycott supporters of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Make your voice known to such ebtities as Bank of America, All Chase Branches, the McGraw Hill Publishing Company, CocaCola, Pepsi, Target, WalMart and more. SOPA style attacks on free speech and infringements on what rights we have left must be defeated.

Congress is preparing to soon vote on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). This broad legislation would give the government, including military spy agencies, unprecedented powers to snoop through people's personal information - medical records, private emails, financial information - all without a warrant, proper oversight or limits. Help stop it. Learn More at http://tinyurl.com/7p4n4bs. Sign the ACLU petition opposing CISPA at http://tinyurl.com/82ars4n. You can read the full text of CISPA at http://tinyurl.com/7v5tt4t

In January, America's major tech companies joined everyday internet users to break the back of a reviled law called SOPA. Months later, Washington is brewing a new law that alarms many SOPA opponents - but this time the same companies have been quiet as church mice. On Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, a law that will make it easier for companies to share data with the government. On its face, the law known as CISPA has a laudable purpose - to help companies and the government prevent and respond to attacks on the nation's computers. But civil libertarians warn that the current version of the law will result in a raft of new Patriot Act like rules that will diminish our privacy rights even further. FULL ARTICLE AT: http://tinyurl.com/73z8jb4

On January 17, some of the most popular websites locked their doors, blacking out for hours at a time to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a Congressional bill that would have censored certain websites if they were found to host pirated content. Three months later, the Internet is at war with Congress again, this time over the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which critics say would allow the government to snoop on private files. READ FULL ARTICLE AT: http://tinyurl.com/75gmspj

Internet activists are sounding the alarms on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, a bill that's headed for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. CISPA would give private companies new ways to share information about cyber-threats with the U.S. government, and vice versa. Although its purpose is quite different from SOPA and PIPA--the anti-piracy bills that were protested out of Congressional consideration last January--CISPA has angered many of the same opponents due to its promise of broad new powers for the government.
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DENVER -- Apple Computer came under fire for back-pedaling on its support for IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol, at a gathering of experts held in Denver this week. Presenters at the North American IPv6 Summit expressed annoyance that the latest version of Apple's AirPort Utility, Version 6.0, is no longer compatible with IPv6. The previous Version, 5.6, offered IPv6 service by default. READ FULL ARTICLE AT: http://tinyurl.com/c2s2j6l

Lawyers for Megaupload, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Web hosting provider Carpathia Hosting and other groups fighting over who should maintain 1,100 servers formerly used by Megaupload should sit down and work out an arrangement, a U.S. judge said Friday. Carpathia asked the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia to relieve it of the responsibility of caring for the servers while the DOJ pursues... READ FULL ARTICLE AT: http://tinyurl.com/7pn8sbk

Mozilla developers are working on a new Firefox feature that will block the automated display of plug-in-based content like Flash videos, Java applets or PDF files, and will protect users from attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins to install malware on their computers. Known as "click to play," this feature has been present in the popular NoScript... FULL ARTICLE AT: http://tinyurl.com/8y3vkp2

In the 25 years since Richard Stallman wrote the GNU General Public License, free and open source software (FOSS) have become pervasive in computing: Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and more can be found in large numbers of enterprises across the globe. And open source is now increasingly undergirding cloud computing as well. "Open source is certainly at the foundation in terms of... FULL ARTICLE AT: http://tinyurl.com/7kgf5qy

"...In the "old" days the traffic that flowed over the LAN was relatively light and often text-based. But as network activity expands into data archiving, voice, and multimedia, the links between WAN nodes (i.e., LANs) are becoming increasingly squeezed. With increasingly high contention for WAN resources, businesses are left with two options to prevent or improve slowing performance and diminished productivity..." FULL ARTICLE AT: http://tinyurl.com/7hqogks

The official website for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation is the latest victim in a massive online attack against both the government and entertainment industry. The Bureau's official website, FBI.gov, went down Thursday evening after hacktivists participating in campaigns waged by the loose knit collective Anonymous attacked a series of sites in retaliation for a raid earlier in the day against the Megaupload service. FULL STORY AT: http://tinyurl.com/6s9s445

It was self-described activist organisations such as Anonymous and Lulz Security who stole 58 per cent of the data while being involved in far fewer cyber attacks, according to Verizon. See http://tinyurl.com/72uveca

"While good old-fashioned greed and avarice were still the prime movers, ideological dissent and schadenfreude took a more prominent role across the caseload," the report said.

Google's been really busy lately. They may be releasing "G-Drive," a personal cloud storage service ala Dropbox. They have released a beta of the Chrome Web browser for Android. And, with all that, their developers have also been hard at work keeping Chrome on top of the Web browser hill. Read more at: http://tinyurl.com/6v4uef8.

How would you like a wireless, near-light speed network that can work from your New York to Tokyo offices? With neutrino communications technology, we might see exactly that someday. - Article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at: http://tinyurl.com/7zt67b4

So they say... your illusion of privacy (on the internet) is a sad, pathetic, ridiculous joke. See http://tinyurl.com/8aazhf4. Article lists dating sites and such personal information ect is commonly hacked or simply shared from many sites generally thought of as safe. Yeah... bla,bla, bla... participation... there you have it.