#January2013
Anonymous may have prevented the Westboro Baptist Church from picketing Aaron Swartz’ funeral.
Welcome to the new world, something like the old world. But with internet hackers, the flexing of muscle resembling the rumbling of keyboards, and uh. Such.
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Google: Government spying is on the rise. Duh-doi!
Google is dropping knowledge bombs that should surprise approximately no one who reads any sort of tech-geek site. They are slathering us with the tots ph33r that our government is increasing its internet surveillance. Got to catch the bad guys! Watching furry porn.
YouTube is getting itself a FACE BLURRING FEATURE. Shake that ass in anonymity, yo.
YouTube is taking the first step towards all your mommas shaking their donkey trunks on the internets. They’re dropping facial blurring technology, so now all of the bitties out there can definitely slough off whatever pride they had and get freaky.
ACTA Casts Self-Rez, Sneaking Back Into Canada and Europe.
Man. Total (predictable) bummer. Not even a week after European Parliament axed ACTA has it slithered out of its grave to make another attempt at implementation.
European Parliament KILLS ACTA (For Now); Now That’s F**king (Internet) Freedom.
On Fuck Yeah! American Freedom (To Eat and Consume!) Day here in the States, our fellow humans over in the European Parliament have uppercut a dirty son of a bitch much to our internet folks’ pleasure.
European Parliament Voting On ACTA On Wednesday; Kill The Internet Eating Serpent!
ACTA, the serpentine beast awaiting to prey on our internet privacy is going to a vote on Wednesday in the European Parliament. Here’s hoping it’s nailed to a board and thrown to sea.
SOPA Fighters Fund Billboard Outside Bill Sponsor’s Office. Crowd-Funding ++
Check out this wunderkind. A crowd-funded billboard denouncing SOPA was placed right outside the office of one of the bill’s sponsors. Fantastic.
White House Hires New Head of CYBERSECURITY; My Bet Is On Zero Cool.
If I was going to hire a head of cybersecurity, it would totally be Zero Cool. You know, Hackers reference? Am I getting too old? Too lame? My back hurts. The lights are dimming.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Says Citizens Have Right To Record Police On Duty.
I’m not sure why I’m covering this, since I’m not a lawatician or anything, save for the fact that I find it really interesting. The US Department of Justice sent a reprimand to the Baltimore Police Deparment this past Monday being all like, “citizens can video tape you on duty”, high-fiving civil rights for once.
GERMAN PIRATE PARTY Wins Seats In Third Regional Election. Winning.
Pretty ridiculous, you know. In a futuro-awesomeness sort of way. The German Pirate Party is actually winning seats.
