Unrelated imagine of D-list “celebrity” using ATM machine
We love Wired magazine, and their blogs are pretty good too. Recently the “Threat Level” blog, concerning privacy, security, politics, and crime online covered the stories around recent Citibank ATM heists. It hasn’t really been publicized, but nearly $200,000 was stolen by ATM thefts in just three days [...]

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The average web user is pretty lucky, as dedicated and distributed servers allow anyone to easily access the most popular websites quickly and easily. When’s the last time you ever couldn’t load up Google, Yahoo!, or Wikipedia? Probably never. Well, Amazon.com went down yesterday for a few hours, and users from America couldn’t access any [...]

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Remember the mysterious internet postings warning of terrorist attacks against NFL stadiums? Well, ESPN is reporting that Jake Brahm will be serving six months in federal prison and six months under house arrest (in addition to paying $26,750) for making the threats. The Judge Jose L. Linares called it a “sick” hoax, and didn’t spare [...]

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We’ve already heard some “doomsday” scenarios for the internet, including AT&T warning that 2010 could spell the end of the internet as we know it without drastic change. Now the New Scientist is reporting that after 2011 connecting to the internet might be impossible. 85% of the 4.3 billion available Internet Protocol addresses have already [...]

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Frivolous computer use and high def video might kill the internet!
AT&T, known for phones or something, issued a warning that the Internet would run out of bandwidth in 2010 without substantial improvements in network infrastructure. Apparently for the last few decades no one has really thought of fixing the infrastructure even as people shifted from [...]

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Indonesian man saying “NO” to porn!!! - Reuters
What’s the natural response to pornographic material being banned from your country’s internet? Well, for some of the technically inclined in Indonesia, it was hacking into the official information ministry’s webpage to sound of on their opinions. The country has been divided over vociferous debate concerning pornography, a [...]

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Apparently, Jaroslaw Kacznki’s only experiences with the internet involve beer and pornography
Jaroslaw Kaczynki, the former Polish Prime Minister, was recently quoted as saying that the internet attracts people who “watch pornography while sipping a bottle of beer,” and that internet voting should never be allowed. How did he know what I was doing? Ironically, this [...]

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