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Tuesday, 10 April 2012 10:59
SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and CISPA All Raise Serious Security Concerns; Yet No One Seems to Notice
Written by Sean Kalinich
Looking at bills like SOPA, PIPA and CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) it is easy to see the argument for Civil Liberties, Censorship, Personal Privacy and Private Communications. In fact we hear about this on a daily basis…
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Monday, 09 April 2012 20:04
Netflix Opens Its Own Lobby Group to Support SOPA... FLIXPAC is Born
Written by Sean Kalinich
The war for and against SOPA has once again heated up. We have already told you that the entertainment industry, content owners, and lawmakers are working very hard to push through legislation to get what they want (control of the…
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Monday, 09 April 2012 14:23
Sometimes you are not even safe behind a locked door... Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
This morning as a powered up the systems I use to get on the internet and research the day’s articles I found that I was not able to get anywhere although everything appeared to be working the way it should.…
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Saturday, 07 April 2012 11:29
Dodd Hints At The Return of SOPA While The FUD Campaign to Support It Gets Into Full Swing
Written by Sean Kalinich
In mid-January the battle over SOPA and PIPA hit a peak with an unprecedented show of opposition. We saw Wikipedia go dark for the day while other large site put black censored bars over their logos. At the end of…
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Wednesday, 04 April 2012 16:15
History Shows Us That The Abuse of Patent and Antitrust Laws Lead to Economic Crisis
Written by Sean Kalinich
A couple of days ago, while researching information for another article, I stumbled across an article on patents and how they have evolved since their beginning. I will not go into a full blown history lesson, but I do want…
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Wednesday, 04 April 2012 12:49
Spain's Sinde Law Gives A Glimpse Into How Badly SOPA and PIPA Would Have Been Abused
Written by Sean Kalinich
If you ever needed evidence of how badly laws like PIPA and SOPA (and of course ACTA) could and would be abused you have to look no further than some of the laws that are already in place. We have…
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Tuesday, 03 April 2012 11:48
AMD's Long Decline Started Back in 2006 With the Purchase Of ATi *Update*
Written by Sean Kalinich
Over the course of the last year or so we have watched as a once solid company has started to crumble into a shadow of its former self. Yes we are talking about AMD and although the trip down the…
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Tuesday, 03 April 2012 10:06
Anonymous Angry At Pastebin Over Censorship...
Written by Sean Kalinich
The online movement known as Anonymous had a fairly busy weekend and even managed to push their “fun” into Monday. According to several of the Anonymous twitter accounts they are now rather upset at PasteBin. It seems that the owner…
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Saturday, 31 March 2012 08:31
Girls Around Me App for the iPhone Is a Stalker or Pedophile's Dream App
Written by Sean Kalinich
When the smart phone first hit the market it was designed with the business person in mind. It was something like a combination between a PDA and a Phone; in fact the first smartphone that I owned was a PDA…
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Friday, 30 March 2012 21:34
DEC Helped To Make Both AMD And Intel What They Are Today, But Who Got More Out Of The Deal?
Written by Sean Kalinich
For those of you that are old enough to remember the birth of the AMD Athlon CPU then you might also remember that AMD picked up quite a bit of the technology from a company called DEC. DEC had a…
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Friday, 30 March 2012 10:03
Opertaion Global Blackout Would Have Happened Tomorrow; If It Were Real... Now What Did We Learn?
Written by Sean Kalinich
A while ago we wrote a piece that talked (in simple terms) about how Anonymous could kill the internet through attacking the root DNS servers. The article was written with the intent to give a background on the system in…
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Thursday, 29 March 2012 10:07
More "The PC Is Dead" Rhetoric, They Could Not Be More Wrong
Written by Sean Kalinich
As I made my rounds this morning (checking out what the rest of the world thinks is going on in technology) I stumbled across a couple of articles that had my laughing. One of them was just more of what…
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A new Anonymous splinter group has hit the scene with a name that is sure to bring back bad memories for the authorities. The name as many of you might have heard is LulzSec Reborn. If the name is any…
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012 10:28
Tim Cook Visits China To Talk About Growth, But Is That All He Is After?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Tim Cook’s recent visit to China has made more than a few headlines especially considering their position they are in right now. Not only do they have the world looking at them over issues at with Foxconn facilities, but they…
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012 10:38
Online Privacy Will be a Big Talking Point As the US Gears Up for Elections, But Will Anything Get Done?
Written by Sean Kalinich
The online privacy debate is heating up as we head into an election year in the US. So far we have watched as a handful of new legislation is talked about and data brokers, online services and others are asked…
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Sunday, 25 March 2012 11:34
Despite Congressional Sabre Rattling; Online Privacy Has and Will Always Be a Concern
Written by Sean Kalinich
Privacy is the big watch word these days. We are hearing more and more about how this app or that one gathers personal data or how Social media uses (or abuses) our personal information. We are even hearing the rumblings…
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