p2pnet headline roundups: Aug 24
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Dalhousie gets Facebook animal research site yanked – CanWest News Service
Canada’s Dalhousie University says it had a Facebook group pulled that wrongly accused the institution of abusing animals during scientific research. The group gained 15,000 members last week, showing just how quickly information on social-networking websites can spread, and the challenges businesses and institutions face as they deal with defamatory material online.
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Search Engine Marketeers are the new script kiddies – Justinsomnia
On August 8th, my blog, hosted at justinsomnia.org, disappeared from Google, completely, utterly without any warning or known provocation (e.g. black hat SEO), sending the traffic to my blog plummeting. I complained to all known and normal channels, which in my opinion are too few and far between. I checked Google’s Webmaster Central tools, which merely confirmed that my site no longer existed in their index. Frustrating.
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University of Tennessee Student Makes Motion to Quash Subpoena in Virgin v. Does 1-33 – Recording Industry vs The People
The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that in Virgin v. Does 1-33, the RIAA’s attempt to obtain the identities of students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “John Doe #28″, a student at the University, has made a motion to quash the subpoena which has been served. According to the News Sentinel, this is the first attempt to attack the challenge to the RIAA’s discovery proceedings in Knoxville.
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Monster.com waited 5 days to disclose data theft – Reuters
Monster.com waited five days to tell its users about a security breach that resulted in the theft of confidential information from some 1.3 million job seekers, a company executive told Reuters on Thursday.
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Role of Telecom Firms in Wiretaps Is Confirmed – New York Times
The Bush administration has confirmed for the first time that American telecommunications companies played a crucial role in the National Security Agency’s domestic eavesdropping program after asserting for more than a year that any role played by them was a “state secret.” The acknowledgment was in an unusual interview that Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, gave last week to The El Paso Times in which he disclosed details on classified intelligence issues that the administration has long insisted would harm national security if discussed publicly.
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Retirees’ Personal Info Compromised – Associated Press
Personal information about hundreds of thousands of retirees’ may have been compromised after two security breaches involving pension funds in California and New York. In the New York case, a laptop computer containing financial information on as many as 280,000 retired New York City workers disappeared from a restaurant.
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Zim puts squeeze on ISPs – ITWeb
Zimbabwean Internet service providers (ISPs) are struggling to install costly equipment to monitor the flow of information in the southern African country, according to online activist Web site Kubatana. President Robert Mugabe formally signed the Interception of Communications Act earlier this month. It enables the government to intercept phone calls, e-mails and faxes with the intention of protecting national security.
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‘G.I. Joe’ Gets a Director – EW.com
Paramount has signed Sommers (director of the Mummy movies and Van Helsing) to helm what it hopes will become another hugely successful toy-based movie, à la Transformers: a live-action G.I. Joe.
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