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Telstra, Optus to begin Internet Censorship next month.

The future of Internet freedom and freedom of speech in general is under threat after the announcement that Telstra & Optus unveiled plans to roll out Internet filtering systems. of course they say...

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Website testing & Internet Explorer sucks.

I am just testing the website again in Internet Explorer 8.0. The drop shadows on the DIV layers does not work, but everything else seems to be all good, IE 8.0 is about the lowest version that will...

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The possible future of the Internet under SOPA?

Is this the future of the Internet after the Stop Online Piracy Act comes into force? Users having to purchase a set package that includes access to a selection of websites and a 500 Megabyte cap with...

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Internet censorship still on the cards.

The future of the Internet is still under threat even though the SOPA Internet censorship bill has been defeated in the Senate, this does not mean that we can afford to relax our guard just yet....

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Poland signed up to Anti-Piracy pact. The SOPA bill in new clothes.

There is anger in Poland over the country signing up to a anti-piracy pact with other nations to suppress Internet freedom. They say this is about piracy, but this is all about taking away our right to...

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ASIO wanting more powers for surveillance of Internet users.

The ASIO spy agency is asking Australian ISPs to log all the data that travels to and fro from a users computer. This would require an astronomical amount of storage space if this is to be taken...

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Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act to be a threat to freedom.

The CISPA Bill is a program that will enable more sharing of Internet user`s data to facilitate monitoring of the Internet use of civilians. This under the guise of protecting us from terrorists and...

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New exploit targeting Internet Explorer 9.0 and earlier. A good reason to...

A new zero-day exploit in the wild that targets the Internet Explorer 9.0 and earlier releases is making the rounds. This is another reason to not depend on closed source software if you can help it. I...

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Malcom Turnbull and his failure on the NBN.

Hack Tuesday April 9 2013: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/daily/hack_tue_2013_4_9.mp3. Listen to this recording of the ABC TripleJ radio show Hack and hear what Malcom Turnbull is planning if...

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The Xbox One console wins the prize for most privacy invading console.

The new Xbox One Kinect has a camera that can see in the dark and also is listening with the camera even while the device is supposedly powered down; but still plugged in. That is an obvious privacy...

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The government PRISM system monitoring all Internet traffic in America.

The Obama administration have been caught in the PRISM spying scandal. This involves the National Security Agency spying on Americans using their text messages and Internet access records. Considering...

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Europe and Japan Aiming to Build 100Gbps Fibre Optic Internet.

The European Commission (EC) and Japan have announced the launch of six joint research projects, supported by £15.3m+ (€18m) in funding, that aim to build networks which are “5000 times faster than...

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Liberal government to bring out an Internet filter if elected.

A Liberal National government in Australia would adopt the opt-out UK approach to filtering for all Australians. The policy comes less than 41 hours before polls open for voting in the federal election...

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Internet censorship on the horizon. What will happen to online privacy?

With the NSA monitoring the Internet and usage of the encrypted TOR network rising; the people are waking up to the reality of total government control of the Internet. But the SSL encryption on the...

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A quick listing of the most common network ports used today.

The Internet makes use of many ports for connectivity, this is a necessary part of the networks that compose the global network and enables all kinds of network protocols to work together. Here are...

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Networking terms and their meanings.

Some common networking terms and their meanings. IPv4 – IP version 4: This is the current networking standard that defines an IP address with a 32-bit address composed of four octects. IPv6 – IP...

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How to bypass Internet censorship in a repressive regime. A useful PDF file.

A very useful PDF file with information about bypassing Internet censorship in a repressive regime. Countries like China and Iran have restricted Internet and this necessitates a method of bypassing...

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Information about satellite packet routing as it relates to the Internet.

This paper I found, PDF relates to the routing of network packets through a satellite connection. This might be very interesting to a student of networking who is interested in satellite networking and...

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Get the internet facing IP address of a Linux machine easily.

This simple command will print out the Internet facing IP address of a Linux machine in no time. curl ifconfig.me/ip This will return the useragent that is used to access this URL. ubuntu ~ $ curl...

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How I got the Internet connection working in Ubuntu server 14.03.

I installed Ubuntu server 14.03 in a Virtual Machine and after installation the Internet connection was not working. To fix this I added the nameservers to the /etc/resolv.conf file like this....

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