M&Mâs World Headlines: Mar 19, 2009
Australian government secret ACMA internet censorship blacklist, 6 Aug 2008 WikiLeaks
This list contains 2395 webpages or site variations derived from the those secretly banned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and used by a government approved censorship software maker in its “ACMA only” censorship mode. The last update to the ACMA list is August 6, 2008. History shows that secret censorship systems, whatever their original intent, are invariably corrupted into anti-democratic behavior.
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Leaked Austrailian Government blacklist confirms worst fears Electronic Frontiers Australia
The Minister has refuted the authenticity of the list in a media release. Indications are that the leaked list contains the ACMA list plus sites chosen by the filter vendor. In any case, comments about individual sites on the list should therefore be treated with caution. Electronic Frontiers Australia today hailed the leaking of the government`s secret internet blacklist as a wake-up call for Australians concerned about secret censorship. The blacklist, which appeared on the whistle-blower site Wikileaks, is compiled by the Australian Communications and Media Authority and distributed to the vendors of approved internet filters, but is otherwise secret.
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Dentist, tuckshop cited on web Austrailian blacklist The Age
The Queensland dentist included on the Australian communications regulator’s blacklist of prohibited websites has demanded that the list be cleaned up, as he is now being associated with child porn peddlers and sexual violence sites. Whisleblower site Wikileaks published the top-secret ACMA list today. Other Australian sites on the list are canteens.com.au (”Tuckshop and Canteen Management Consultants”) and animal carers MaroochyBoardingKennels.com.au.
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Torrent Sites End Up on Australian Blacklist Torrent Freak
There are claims today that the Australian government`s top-secret blacklist of banned websites has been leaked onto the Internet. There are a number of strange entries on the list that leaked to Wikileaks, including a couple of torrent sites. However, Australian Minister Stephen Conroy claims the list is not the country`s official blacklist.
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Norwegian secret internet censorship blacklist, 3518 domains, 18 Mar 2009 WikiLeaks
Full list of 3518 secretly blacklisted sites as of 18th of March 2009. Similar to the Danish list, with which it shares 1097 domains. The list is generated without judicial or public oversight and is kept secret by the ISPs using it. Unaccountability is intrinsic to such a secret censorship system.
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Iranian Blogger Reported Dead in Prison ReadWriteWeb
Omid Reza Misayafi, one of a number of Iranian bloggers arrested for “insulting” the government and religious authorities in that country, is dead. Misayafi’s death was reported on Global Voices Online via an Iranian human rights site in Farsi and we learned of it from The Committee to Protect Bloggers.
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Sirius Founder Says The Company Is Screwed TechDirt
It’s no secret that Sirius XM’s business has been hurting. Its recent brush with bankruptcy merely highlighted the huge obstacles the company faced from the beginning: massive capital outlay on satellite infrastructure, and huge spending to attract subscribers. But one key issue for the company that many people didn’t foresee was the rise in popularity of internet radio, podcasts, and portable music players.
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Office Depot Employees Blowing The Whistle On Outright Scams TechDirt
…..Laptop Magazine is reporting on a series of whistle-blowing employees at Office Depot, detailing how they pulled off similar scams. The typical “oh, that’s out of stock” trick is apparently quite common, but it even gets more advanced, with some employees creating photoshopped price signs, in order to “hide” the price of an expensive warranty add-on in the “list price” for a computer.
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White House Says Feds Should Have Unfettered Access To Mobile Phone Location Info TechDirt
It feels that mobile phone providers should freely hand over records of what mobile phone tower any phone was connected to, even without the administration bothering to get a warrant (i.e., whenever and for whomever it wants to keep tabs on). This is tremendously problematic if you believe in the basic principles of the 4th Amendment. The EFF and the ACLU have asked a court to stop this practice, and it’s rather disappointing that the administration is pushing in the other direction. [Additional: http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/03/17-0]
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Google Provides Numbers On Just How Often DMCA Takedown Process Is Abused TechDirt
Reader Slackr points us to some news about Google filing a comment on New Zealand’s proposed new copyright law that would kick file sharers offline based on accusations rather than convictions. While New Zealand has agreed to hold off putting the law into place, while it hopes to work out a compromise, the government is accepting submissions from interested parties. While it’s interesting alone that Google is participating in the process, even more interesting is what it has to say about its experience with DMCA takedown notices: “In its submission, Google notes that more than half (57%) of the takedown notices it has received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998, were sent by business targeting competitors and over one third (37%) of notices were not valid copyright claims.”
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DOJ Seeks Jail Time for Music Sharing EFF
At issue is a pre-release leak of the Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy. In August 2008, blogger Kevin Cogill was arrested at gunpoint at his home in Los Angeles. He was charged under the 2005 Family Entertainment and Copyright Act with posting tracks from the album prior to its release date. In October, Cogill plead guilty [PDF], and last week the government asked for a six-month prison sentence. In fact, it appears that leaks of the tracks in question had been available for many years before Cogill posted his copies in June 2008. As noted in Cogill’s lawyer’s response to the request [PDF], the band began work on the album in 1994 (!), and switched studio affiliations and band managers several times in the subsequent 15 years before its release, leaving countless opportunities for leaks. Anecdotal evidence exists of CD leaks “kicking around since 2001 or 2002.”
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Diebold Admits Flaw In Voting Software Slashdot
At a public hearing in California, Diebold’s western region manager has admitted that the audit log system on current versions of Premier Election Solutions’ (formerly Diebold’s) electronic voting and tabulating systems â used in some 34 states across the nation â fails to record the wholesale deletion of ballots, even when ballots are deleted on the same day as an election. An election system’s audit logs are meant to record all activity during the system’s actual counting of ballots, so that later examiners may determine, with certainty, whether any fraudulent or mistaken activity had occurred during the count. Diebold’s software fails to do that…
March, 2009
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Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.
March 19th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
ok this is not fair uha1.com is not on the list
united hackers association
hrm
ill turn site on and let australians see it then and speak as they want createa blog resistance if you will
March 19th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I think it’s only fair that Jon make a new story based on Psiphon and how Canadians can help them circumvent the great censor wall of Australia.
At the bottom of his stories he has this:
“Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.”
Maybe we will make an Aussie newspaper/news sites as helping our poor Commonwealth brethren escape the wall!
March 19th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
i knwo how
we get us a canoe and we come over that way
at rate they are wrecking the net no one will want to use it in short order anyhow
and that is hte goal to destroy mankinds ability to innovate and share
yup that is def a police state
where is democracy ?