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[Web of Contradictions] (30 September 2005)">As the lesser powers-that-be at the United Nations struggle to wrest control of the internet from the USA, their subject populations are setting up internets of their own under nobody’s regulation. Whereas earlier projects like Freenet used encrypted communications over the ‘real’
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Webby's World: If I wanted (and had the knowledge) I could go and make my own internet like Freenet .At the end of this well either have no internet or nothing will have changed. (via Cosmos)
[Cynthia L. Webb] Hackers Love Search Engines: From Linda Greenhouse at The New York Times, who wrote the justices were "surprisingly responsive on Tuesday to warnings from Grokster, the software maker that allows Internet users to share computer files on peer-to-peer networks, that a broad definition of copyright infringement could curtail innovation." However, Greenhouse said predicting the outcome of the case at this point was still "perilous." The Boston Globe noted: "Every member of the court except Justice Clarence Thomas took part in the discussion, asking pointed and sometimes humorous questions that demonstrated considerable knowledge of the Internet, file-swapping, and popular high-tech gadgets like Apple Computer's iPod music player. Intense questions were directed at all of the parties, giving few hints as to how the justices might rule."
[American Jihad] Islamophobia?: sanctuaries," signaling a new theater in the ever evolving war on terrorism: the Internet... trouble tracking Al Qaeda online, because Internet technology favors the fugitive criminal...
[E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva"] Running with Scissors... uh .....I mean admin rights: to understand let alone swap public keys to set up encrypted email. WHY IS THAT? Why shouldn't we... of AIM (5.2 and up) allows you to send and receive encrypted instant messages using your Digital ID... in your office. You need a place to share data. None of this mamby pamby peer to peer stuff. YOU
[P2p.weblogsinc.com] USA Today: Touring in the P2P Era - The Peer-to-Peer Weblog - p2p ...: GoToMyPC is an AES 128-bit encrypted Web-based service that lets you access and control your PC from any other Internet-connected computer. After a 2-minute setup, you can access your email, applications and network from home, while traveling, on vacation easily, quickly and securely.
[Nyu.edu] SIVACRACY.NET: Siva Vaidhyanathan's Weblog: It was supposed to be about how Napster and other peer-to-peer systems were threatening or altering Hollywood and the recording industry. After the attacks of 2001, it became really hard to care whether Metallica was making any money.
[Zillman.blogspot.com] Marcus P. Zillman, MS, AMHA Author/Speaker/Consultant: Auctioning (or Arbitration) Network) is a major ongoing project at the University of Florida's CISE department to develop a fully functional infrastructure supporting the automated, commercial buying and selling of dynamic distributed computing resources over the internet. The idea is that anyone with spare cycles should be able to deploy an OCEAN server which can run other people's computing tasks for profit, and any developer should be able to easily write a distributed application which any user with a credit card number (or other means of automatic payment) should be able to deploy in distributed fashion using as many suitable OCEAN servers as they can afford to rent for their particular purpose.
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