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There is a bill called the Precise Act H.R. 3674 that changes some of the rules and regulations around companies that work in “critical infrastructure” and the government’s ability to regulate them. Read Full Story

Well the boffins over at Console Cowboys have hit the news in a big way by showing off some reverse engineering of web cam software, and figuring out how to find unsecured home web cams. Not all of them are home, some are office, and this is definitely creepy. Read Full Story

There is interesting and startling information coming out of CNet this morning that the FBI might have been able to plant spyware on the internal computers of Megaupload’s managers. If CIPAV was used to monitor Megaupload, then this case gets much more interesting. Read Full Story

While I believe that technology must at some point find an accommodation with business and with government, my belief is not the only one out there. If you are running a self-hosted Wordpress web site, there is a new alpha version of a plugin that aims to address the censorship issue by providing a proxy plugin for your Wordpress site. Read Full Story

Back in the 1960’s and 1970’s one of the interesting items in the Robert Heinlein universe was an item called a “Universal Pantograph” that would replicate almost any physical item you could think of. Makerbot Industries makes a 3D printer that will replicate just about any object that it has a CAD/CAM drawing for. The Pirate Bay has now started sharing/releasing public domain 3D drawings that will work with the Makerbot printer, and is calling these items Physibles. Read Full Story

If anything makes the argument for cloud computing, it is the recent report from CNET and everyone else’s commentary system that a person has to decrypt their hard drive when asked by the government. Read Full Story

YCombinator has declared war on Hollywood claiming that they will do a lot of damage to the web on the way out as new media models start to take over the industry. Read Full Story

Surprising news today is that Mega Upload has been raided by the FBI and shut down with seven arrests today. Megaupload is a Hong Kong based company with managers around the planet, and the CEO being in the music industry themselves. Read Full Story

January 18th 2012 is going to be one of the more interesting days in history when we look back at it twenty or thirty years from now. Today is the day many sites completely blacked out, or blacked out segments of their web site in response to poorly crafted and dangerous laws being proposed in Washington by your and my elected representatives. Read Full Story

In case you have been wondering what has been keeping me busy, the InfoSec Institute out of Chicago has requested that I write down everything I know about Cloud Computing, and this is turning into an interesting project. Read Full Story