FBI manage to trace alleged darknet marketplace Silk Road owner “Dread Pirate Roberts” (DPR) by linking old email addresses, IPs, and VPN usage logs – not by breaking Tor
Twitter, everyone’s favourite 140 character messaging service, is planning an IPO and has filed an S-1 form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to begin that process according to a tweet from the company yesterday
The internet is made up of cables that cross borders and connect beneath the oceans, as well as exchanges in locations across the globe, which leaves numerous points vulnerable to data collection and espionage by national and private entities.
Does anyone else get the feeling that Internet regulation is starting to resemble a dystopian novel? Widespread surveillance (both public and private). Censorship. Lack of transparency. Prosecution of whistle-blowers. Secret courts. Governments intent on hard-wiring morality into the network. Open standards under attack. Excessive IP enforcement. Centralised architectures.
The Internet Watch Foundation have received 227 reports of child porn malware in the past six weeks, in a disturbing change of tactic from the hackers behind the attacks.