The use of “implied consent” shifts responsibility to the user rather than the website operator, and will come as a relief to thousands of website operators who have been struggling to comply with new EU directives which came into law a year ago.
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According to our man in the know, the company could be about to expand into the browser space to take on the likes of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla and now even Yahoo, who has recently launched its own browser.
« PNDs are Personal Navigation Devices. FUD is Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. It’s not really for me to say whether TomTom is good at manufacturing PNDs… but happily, it’s really not very good at creating FUD ». (via Système D)
« Why are they doing it? To systematically collect information on the operations of certain nation states in the Middle East, including Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and so on. Here’s a map of the top 7 affected countries » (via The Flame: Questions and Answers – Securelist)
In spite of the strong wording, Sina already has an active rumor control team that polices its platform for ‘unsuitable’ content, so much of this is simply confirming practices that have been ongoing for some time. The process of censorship itself is now in black and white (albeit open to interpretation) and so too is the policy of removing persistent offenders. Weibo users start with 80 points, those whose accounts reach 0 can be deleted by Sina.
The attack, which doesn’t require an adversary to have any man-in-the-middle capability over the network, can be used to lace unencrypted Facebook and Twitter pages with code that causes victims to take unintended actions, such as post messages or follow new users. It can also be used to direct people to fraudulent banking websites and to inject fraudulent messages into chat sessions in some Windows Live Messenger apps.
(via CheatSheet)
On a beaucoup glosé sur le risque pour les adolescents d’y trouver un type en train de se branler et d’être traumatisés, ou de tomber ensuite mystérieusement dans les filets d’une vie de débauche, mais boyd affirme que lorsque les adolescents croisent le corps flasque et chauve d’un homme rivé à sa webcam et s’adonnant à des actes sexuels, ils poussent en réalité un simple «beurk» et passent à quelqu’un d’autre.