#April2012

Internet Privacy-Destroying CISPA BILL Passes House. Batten Down.

CISPA prevails! As a collective community we must have blown every ounce of protester-load we had getting SOPA nailed into a casket, cause we sure as shit ain’t doing much about CISPA. It’s like SOPA on steroids, has the back acne to prove it, and once slept with your Mom. No kissing, no phone call the day after.

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CISPA Supporters Claim It’s Harmless; Here’s The Counterargument

I’ve riffed on CISPA before here on the Mothership. The bastard born from the aborted coils of SOPA, it has every intention of ramming us Internet users in the honeypot with barbed intentions. Its proponents (like Facebook) whisper that it’s harmless. Inevitable. The EFF begs to differ.

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CISPA Is SOPA 2.0: The Corporations Strike Back!

SOPA! It died, but like a Phoenix of douche-mastery, it has risen again in a multitude of forms. Its latest iteration can be found in CISPA. This son of a bitch is an old trick in a new form.

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MPAA Boss Says New SOPA Is Happening Behind The Scenes. Duh-Doi!

The MPAA isn’t taking the death of SOPA laying down. They’re doubling-down and coming up with something nefarious to emerge in its place.

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ANONYMOUS Threatens To Kill Entire INTERNET On March 31. Dream Big.

Anonymous has been on the rocks lately, with their leader selling them the fuck out, releasing an OS with malware or some shit, and other unfortunate incidents. They intend on rallying this Saturday by killing the internet. I suppose if you’re going to ball, ball hard.

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US Military Wants To HACK Foreign Game Consoles, Steal User Information. Dastardly ++

The  Department of the Navy must have been watching some Dateline. Their latest and greatest way to spend tax payer money is to employ a company to boat a shitload of used gaming consoles overseas, and then till those consoles for user information. Have to get those terrorists’ information from them video game killer-builder machines.

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Microsoft Blocking PIRATE BAY LINKS In Instant Messages. Damn The Man!

The Pirate Bay is shucking and jiving like a motherfucker lately to stay ahead of the Popo Zao. Them wily sons a bitches are even contemplating taking their servers to the skies with drones. However, next they might need to figure out how to get around Microsoft blocking their links in their instant messages.

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US Relaxes Limits On How Data From SPYING On Citizens Can Be Used. Big Brother Giggles

Good news for everyone who doesn’t really care about their internet freedom! Limits have been laxed and now even people who are not  suspected of being terrorists (which has become such a flimsy word I think even my Nana could be argued to be one) can have their data mined and stored and gazed at by the Man with uncomfortably little restrictions.

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LulzSec Leader Betrays All Of Anonymous. Leads To Huge Arrests. F**k This Guy.

The Matrix is under attack, yo. Would-be ringleader of Anonymous and leader of LulzSec  Hector Xavier Monsegur has reportedly sold out both organizations, and has be tugging government dongle for months. What a fuck.

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ANONYMOUS Members Tricked Into Installing Malware. Whoops

Anonymous. Take down a lot of giants by the ankles. Biting and pinching and fighting unfairly. Even the gnats take one off the chin every once in a while, though. The security wizards at Symantec think the legion may have gotten themselves hacked up during a January DDoS attack.

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