IDEA Sues PETA For Copyright Infringement

Tech Companies Called on The Carpet in DC. Again. : Google , Yahoo! , and Cisco faced questions from the subcommittee on human rights (part of the Senate Judiciary Committee ) about their role in China’s Internet censorship system. Cisco was in particularly hot water after an internal document surfaced - it discusses how Cisco technology can “Combat ‘Falun Gong’ evil religion and other hostiles.” Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) asked ... more

Ok.. I have a big problem with being tagged without my permission. If you do also, make it known to the airlines that they really ought to TELL US and give us the option to opt out, and take the chance that they’ll lose the luggage twice :-) RFID tags, pay per bag, and they STILL lose ’em - Kenzoid’s Autonomous Zone : RFID tags, pay per bag, and they STILL lose ’em I was reading an article this morning on the new American Airlines luggage charge (THAT&... more

Uprooting of the DNS Root : The folks at Renesys pointed out earlier this week some interesting activity surrounding the L-root name server, highlighting some activity that should give us all yet another reason to be concerned about the security and integrity of the Internet DNS... considering that a great deal of malware today tends to corrupt the DNS resolution path in order to further exploit compromised end-systems, and that corruption, or any other actual end-system compromise, mi... more

EFF forces Lockheed to withdraw trademark claim on B-24 bomber : Great news: The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Corynne McSherry arm-twisted Lockheed Martin into giving up on their crazy attempt to stop people from posting 3D models of the WWII bombers that they built at government expense, claiming a trademark in the design: Last month we told you about Lockheed Martin’s effort to use trademark infringement claims to cause the removal of digital images of classic milit... more