http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/australian-govt-releases-censored-web-spying-document-2643631.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia
The Australian government has censored approximately 90 percent of a secret document outlining its controversial plans to snoop on Australians' web surfing, obtained under freedom of information (FoI) laws, out of fear the document could cause "premature unnecessary debate". Clearly, they're hiding something behind all that black ink: nobody blacks out that much text unless there's something they know will enrage the public.

http://nocleanfeed.com/

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/22/australian-governmen.html

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/wikileaks-expos/
WikiLeaks Exposes Australian Web Blacklist.

http://www.techeye.net/internet/aussies-to-push-ahead-with-web-censorship
A change of Prime Minister down under is not enough to kill off one of the most stupid ideas of the 21st century.

http://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=36236&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Windows 7 'compatibility checker' is a Trojan

Scammers are infecting computers with a Trojan horse program disguised as software that determines whether PCs are compatible with Windows 7.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60333/

The Firefox Addon for the GoogleSharing system. GoogleSharing ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit.

By default, the GoogleSharing addon proxies requests for appropriate Google services to a GoogleSharing proxy that is operated and maintained by the GoogleSharing team. No user information of any kind (IP addresses or URLs visited) is logged by the proxy.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=6291&tag=nl.e550

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/08/AR2010050800108.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Consumer Watchdog targets Google

http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Will-Steve-Jobs-Thoughts-on-Flash-put-Apple-in-trouble-with-the-Feds/1272928863

Will Steve Jobs' 'Thoughts on Flash' put Apple in trouble with the Feds?

http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/10-Things-you-should-know-about-Apple-and-antitrust/1273081311

http://robertreich.org/post/572112065/apple-isnt-the-problem-wall-streets-big-banks-are

http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Which-is-eviler-Apple-Facebook-or-Google/1273166872

may be it's the banks !!

http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Which-is-eviler-Apple-Facebook-or-Google/1273166872

Which is eviler? Apple, Facebook or Google?

Three monopolies. All vying to be the next Microsoft. Will one of them succeed, and will it cost you dearly?

http://www.betanews.com/article/A-window-closes-on-Microsoft/1273183627

A window closes on Microsoft
I think it's way too soon to write off Microsoft as a company.!!

http://www.techtree.com/India/News/HP_Kills_the_iPad_Killer_-_Slate/551-110921-615.html

HP Kills the iPad Killer - Slate

Says Windows 7 is unfriendly with tablets and Intel hardware is too power hungry
During the Consumer Electronics Show 2010, Hewlett Packard had promised to introduce its Slate tablet later this year.
HP not like Vista & now not like windows 7

http://www.auditmypc.com/

Some Proxy Servers are very Bad! ( I don't use slow me down )

Not all proxy servers do as they claim and in fact, there are a ton of junk proxy servers out there that give people a false sense of security or worse, record everything you do in hopes to score a password or two!

Your computer is connecting to the internet at Auckland, E7, in the NZ, with an ip of !!
We could not find your Host Name, this is good!
A trace to your phone comes back with an area code of: 0 ( trick in set up to get 0 )

Hi copmom 2007 !! or did you mean 2009 !! not find

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=3942&tag=nl.e101

Google promises Chrome is not phoning home with your Web data !!

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2254564/google-boss-dismissive-privacy

http://pcpandit.com/index.php/internet/stop-google-from-saving-your-search-queries.html

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963707/

How to remove the .NET Framework Assistant for Firefox (It's just come back last time told update no & don't for get and it back now get more info on me)

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 12.65 bits of identifying information.
be for was 12.25 bits

ya. came across the leaked pdf last night, not to mention the wikipedia entry.

land of the free my behind.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10633858

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/CFBB5E92DDF95D40CC25766A006D37F1

http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20091024-0915-Mark_Harris_counterfeiting_and_trade-048.mp3

Uhh... can you add a bit more info to that? a url? strange how you just sorta faded out...

If you're wondering why a new body is needed to do this, you're not alone.

According to Michael Geist, a Canadian law professor and authority on technology law issues who has been leading opposition to ACTA,

The secrecy of the ACTA process raises speculation about what's behind it.

i went ahead and took the test. Here's my what it said.

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 4,965 tested so far.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 12.28 bits of identifying information.

User Agent 12.28 +4965 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 GTB6 HTTP_ACCEPT Headers-5.17 0.03 text/html, */* ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*q=0.gzip,deflate en-us,en;

Browser Plugin Details
12.28+ 4965

Time Zone
-4.62 0.04 300

Screen Size and Color Depth -2.97 0.13 1680x1050x24

System Fonts
12.28 +4965

Are Cookies Enabled?
0.4 1.32 Yes

Limited supercookie test
-6.06 0.02 DOM localStorage: Yes, DOM sessionStorage: Yes, IE userData: No

(Click Test me) This is with Firefox Private Browsing Adblock Plus & NoScipt

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 4,878 tested so far.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 12.25 bits of identifying information.

Browser Characteristic bits of identifying information one in x browsers have this value value
User Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
HTTP_ACCEPT Headers
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 gzip,deflate en-us,en;q=0.5

Browser Plugin Details = no javascript

Time Zone = no javascript

Screen Size and Color Depth = no javascript

System Fonts = no javascript

Are Cookies Enabled? = Yes

Limited supercookie test = no javascript

see if you can do better, note if NoScipt will stop it get info like System Fonts so on hope this will help.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1596175/new-zealand-filters-web

New Zealand filters the web (in by the back door don't tell try fist)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3434754/New-Zealands-internet-filter-goes-live

The Department of Internal Affairs' (DIA) internet filter is now operational and is being used by internet providers (ISPs) Maxnet and Watchdog.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10631938

"It goes against principles of privacy and freedom from search, it is ineffective for its purpose, and it sets a worrying precedent that a government department can arbitrarily decide to block internet traffic of its choosing."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/internet/news/article.cfm?c_id=137&objectid=10632320

Aussie internet users cannot escape their government's internet filter

CANBERRA - Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has hit back at a new report listing his country as a potential internet enemy.

"Material that is not currently available in a newsagent, in a bookstore, on a DVD, at the movies or on television.

http://www.eff.org/issues/acta

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (What is ACTA?)

But there is still time to do something to change that! If you live in the US, tell your Senators to demand more transparency in ACTA!

Here is a test for your browser.
>>> https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Traditionally, people assume they can prevent a website from identifying them by disabling cookies on their web browser. Unfortunately, this is not the whole story.

copmom may be you told http://www.google.com/dashboard to stop the spying you can I have but they have mates to do it for them AdWords, AdSense, and DoubleClick Ad Exchange, are some.

Hot Dog: I went to that link and all it shows is a few items (searches), dating back to 2007, nothing since then.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39823240,00.htm
*
Microsoft criticises privacy in Chrome 3.0

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/googles_new_ad_server_goes_after_the_little_guy.php#more

Google knows you. It knows what type of car have. It knows that you like Mexican food from all the times you've looked on Google Maps. And Google knows how to leverage this type of information with services like Google AdWords, AdSense, and DoubleClick Ad Exchange.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Exclusive-Googles-latest-Buzz-privacy-changes-enable-possible-new-exploit/1266528065

Google's latest Buzz privacy changes enable possible new exploit

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9157738/Security_bug_opens_Google_Buzz_to_hackers?taxonomyId=17 *

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/pleaserobme_and_the_dangers_of_location-aware_social_networks.php

Google's Dashboard tool shows users what the company knows about them.
The Boston Globe's Haiwatha Bray is taken aback to find out how much Google knows about her.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2009/11/12/google_dashboard_paints_the_story_of_your_life_as_d
ata_points/
Now appearing on Google: The story of my life. And yours. If you’ve got a Google account, just punch up
http://www.google.com/dashboard , and get ready to feel your skin crawl.

I personally dumped a couple of not-interested mailing list at my old gmail account soon after I got it, then never revisited it. google may have some neat stuff but the data mining and personal privacy invasion keeps my interest at bay. I got google sharing as soon as I could to confuse what tracking I couldn't block with noscript.

This is some of the best info you've posted yet hotdodge, so most all of us have a gmail account. We all will get that pop up asking us to sign up for GBuzz when we sign in the first time and they know most of us will try it.

I figure every one else will be like me initially and not consider the implied ramifications. It looks like a supped up reader with the ability to talk to other people. Talk about Trojan Horse!

This is way to much power for a 3rd party group to have that we know nothing about and were trusting google to have taken care of the legal ramifications.

I'm not a conspiracy theory person, but I almost feel like this is a government controlled company with a company logo. If you remember they were working with google before getting intel, but that all stopped cause the public found out.
Now they just repackage the program open a business, so google isnt responsible anymore and guarantee that they wont be indicted.

I dont know, but to give a no company something with so much power is fishy.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/privacy.html

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=2904&tag=leftCol;post-2904

(Google:Being evil)

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/07/blue-circle-comes-to-your-desktop.html

and know where you live the street house so no.

Thanks for the heads-up, hotdoge3. (chuckle)...That's why I always take the wait-and-see stance before trying out new things, be they Internet, or real-world.

http://www.businessinsider.com/warning-google-buzz-has-a-huge-privacy-flaw-2010-2

WARNING: Google Buzz Has A Huge Privacy Flaw

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2258034/google-breaks-privacy-laws

http://thefrontline.v3.co.uk/2010/02/google-buzz-cri.html

http://epic.org/privacy/ftc/googlebuzz/default.html

Concerning the Privacy of Electronic Address Books

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2257875/google-addresses-buzz-privacy

http://epic.org/privacy/cloudcomputing/google/

Google routinely represents to consumers that documents stored on Google servers are secure.!
Google also explicitly assures consumers that "Google Docs saves to a secure, online storage facility . . . without the need to save to your local hard drive." !
Google encourages users to "add personal information to their documents and spreadsheets," and represents to consumers that "this information is safely stored on Google's secure servers." Google states that "your data is private!!
Google's Cloud Computing Services - Known Flaws

Review of the Google/Doubleclick Merger (2007 - 2008)

Like to see your Web History that they keep on you I found over 2 years you can stop ?? how long ?? You get, Your web history has been paused.
This service will not collect any history until you choose to resume.
How to do this go to https://www.google.com/dashboard/
log in to Gmail now you will see all may be a big day?

http://www.adls.org.nz/ filedownload?id=8c5abea3-4f8f-41f0-8ae6-3bb8e1469791

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha/2237

An Australian spam operation with New Zealand connections is one of two cases brought by the United States Federal Trade Commission, under the new Can-Spam Act. come in (2007)

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/spam-mastermind-faces-court-20091216-kwe3.html

http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0723085/index.shtm

----------------EDIT :
The first link is a direct download; therefore I edited it. If you want to download the paper just delete the space after...nz/

thanks for the update HD3!

something was very fishy about this and I still think they took the code in question...

BTW - I like your updates on tech issues (even if I have to "decode" some of your posts - :-) )

regards - Damian

http://forums.iobit.com/showthread.php?t=4801&page=2

A legal letter will be released later, which will prove that there is no problem with
Intellectual Property Rights.

For the sake of avoiding dispute and possible problems, we have deleted all disputed items in way?
our database temporarily, and have updated IObit Security 360’s database.

ABOUT THE ACCUSATION –DISPUTE THREAD " Closed Thread " ? IObit not like some posts?

http://forums.iobit.com/showthread.php?t=4868 Uninstalling iobit 360 (mostly toolbar related)
Conduit toolbar is classed as malware by most. (This is in IObit forums well said,

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/iobit.com

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/iobit.com/downloads21853516/ (9/10)Nuisance Score Red bad
Exploit-ObscuredHtml trojan

"C:\Program Files\IObit\Advanced SystemCare 3\AWC.exe" /startup

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/iobit.com/downloads/21889236/ (9/10)Nuisance Score Red bad
URL of the download: htxxtp://download.iobit.com/asc-setup.exe

awcsetup.exe installed the following programs on our PC:Exploit-ObscuredHtml trojan

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/iobit.com/downloads/

Changes your default search page, Buttons, toolbars or add ons.
You may also like to see Post IObit 360

post deleted - please don't hijack or "off-topic" existing threads.