June 2, 2009 by Paul Godden
in 'Digital Rights, Internet Connectivity, Networking, Online Service, Security'
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For a change, the Chinese government have decided to impose their holier-than-thou ideals on the public by preventing access to common social networking sites, including twitter.com
Not happy with just blocking Blogger, YouTube and a plethora of others, the Great Firewall of China has put a stop to Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com and others too. I’m guessing that China are looking to slowly remove Chinese social networking & reduce communication generally online, in a hope to stop this pesky freedom of speech stuff.
You may remember an article I wrote previously about China’s efforts to stifle freedom of speech, after YouTube and a few other video sites were “unplugged” from China’s network overnight – and it seems now that things are getting worse. Come on China! What are you afraid of? A revolution?!
The BBC demonstrated that by acquiring some software from chatrooms on the internet, they were able to set up their own botnet and take control of 22,000 user’s PCs.
A significant part of the British government has spoken out against the recent surge of recording and tracking the general public’s whereabouts and communications.
Users of Internet Explorer are being urged to switch to a different browser in a bid to escape a serious zero day flaw.
That’s the conclusion I came to, after
Portsmouth, UK, is the first local authority to install a system that can detect suspicious, and possibly criminal behaviour. Dubbed “Smart” CCTV, the system’s software looks for suspicious acts and alerts its human operators if it spots anything.

