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President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ‘kill switch’ bill, which was approved by a key Senate committee yesterday and now moves to the floor.

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The inference they draw is that, just as Britons supinely submitted to firearms legislation that has led to a situation where “only the bad guys have guns”, we may be sleepwalking into internet slavery The American blogosphere is going increasingly “viral” about a proposal advanced at the recent meeting of [...]

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The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it’s perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the “three-strikes” rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the net if anyone who lives in your house is accused of copyright infringement, without proof or evidence or trial)

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Congress and civil libertarians have always been twitchy about involving the ultrasecretive National Security Agency—masters of electronic spying—more deeply in domestic security matters. Revelations that George W. Bush authorized the NSA (Motto: Never Say Anything) in the wake of 9/11 to expand warrantless electronic eavesdropping on Americans caused heartburn for both intelligence officials and private industry.

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Researchers at security firm Finjan have discovered details of a new type of banking Trojan horse that doesn’t just steal your bank log-in credentials but actually steals money from your account while you are logged in and displays a fake balance.

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A determined propaganda blitz is well underway as the government sets the stage for the passage of Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced in the Senate earlier this year. If passed, it will allow Obama to shut down the internet and private networks.

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Israeli officials, weary of Iran’s achievements in the nuclear field, have turned to cyber attacks to halt the country’s development, Israeli sources told Reuters on Tuesday.

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The demonstrations, which were convened by the Digital Liberty Coalition (DLC), are another indication of the growing concern of industry technicians, scientists and a broad range of ordinary people over the government’s attempts to control and regulate Internet access in Australia.

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Interoute, the internet networks company, reports that three of the four internet sub-cables that run from Asia to North America have been damaged.

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The recent revelations of the military (Pentagon) placing propaganda in the foreign press demonstrate the importance that is given to co-opting public opinion. Pentagon “fighting the net”; implying that the internet is the equivalent of “an enemy weapons system.”

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