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Microsoft stated that more than 1 000 hackers are behind SolarWinds attack
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After analyzing the code with which an unknown group of hackers obtained classified information from dozens of US government systems, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that their experts have identified traces of at least 1,000 developers. "When we analysed everything that we saw at Microsoft, we asked ourselves how many engineers have probably worked on these attacks. And the answer we came to was, well, certainly more than 1,000." Commenting on this hack on the US news magazine program “60 Minutes,” Smith likened the hack to an attack in Ukraine in 2017. Smith's co...
Parler Is Back After Censoring By IT Giants
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After a month of fighting against Google and Amazon, Parler returned to service. The app's management announced new servers and complete independence from the liberal censorship machine. The new CEO, Mark Meckler, with the help of a Russian IT company, restored access to the messenger for 20 million users. “We are off of the big tech platform, so that we can consider ourselves safe and secure for the future,” Meckler told Just the News. According to the new management, Parler has nevertheless acquired tools that will regulate and censor content in the application. Mec...
North Idaho ISP closed access to Facebook and Twitter due to illegal censorship
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Following numerous complaints from residents of North Idaho and the Spokane area to “Your T1 WIFI,” the internet service provider decided to block the liberal social networks Twitter and Facebook, which systematically suppress the freedom of speech of Americans. "Our company does not believe a website or social networking site has the authority to censor what you see and post and hide information from you, stop you from seeing what your friends and family are posting," the email reads. "This is why with the amount of concerns, we have made this decision to block these tw...
46 States Filed Class Action Lawsuit Against Facebook Accusing Of Violating Antitrust Laws
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One of the top IT monopolies, Facebook faces accusations from 46 states of market abuse and suppression of any competition. The prosecution is chaired by a committee of attorneys general from California, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and the District of Columbia, with New York Attorney General Letitia James. Only South Dakota, South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia dropped their claims against the IT giant. With the growing influence on the market of the Internet space, Facebook began to conduct an extremely aggressive policy towards sm...
There's a Need to Police the Internet: More Than Half of Americans Say That They Have Been Harassed Online
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Don’t get me wrong; I am against online snooping done by governments. I firmly believe that the internet should remain free from government interference. The massive online surveillance program that the US government conducted during Obama’s rule was not just unconstitutional, but it irrevocably harmed the democracy that generations of Americans have toiled to preserve and strengthen. However, I am also very strongly in favor of online policing. While both of these might sound similar, they are in fact two very different things. Let’s look at an analogy to better understa...
Rising Sea Levels Could Threaten Internet Access Within 15 Years
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MADISON, WISCONSIN – July 18, 2018 Scientists warn that world wide web could end up underwater in less than15 years due to rising sea levels. Scientists from the University of Wisconsin have compared the schematics of the fiber optic cables laid on the ocean floor with data on rising levels seas, and the results of their work were quite distressing. Even in the most optimistic scenario, the Internet as we know it has about 15 more years. If thousands of miles of cable are flooded because of rising sea levels, it could potentially impact Internet reliabili...
State Limited Teen's Freedom of the Internet Action to Prevent the Next School Shooting
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WASHINGTON — June 18, 2018 The Government has begun monitoring the teens’ social media to prevent the next school shooting. It had to turn a couple tricks to prevent mass shooting in the country. The last time such a thing happened, when a school shooter killed 10 people in a high school in Santa Fe, Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott unveiled a new app iWatch, in which students can report each other’s suspicious behavior – online or offline. The current limit can be just set with two buttons. It can be a screenshot of a Facebook post, a link to a blog post, or a photo of someone...
The Pentagon Is Making Big Tech Have Their Mottos Take A Back Seat To War
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MOUNTAIN VIEW — June 4, 2018 Silicon Valley’s history is inextricably linked to military work. The internet itself grew out of a project at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and many tech firms benefited from robust defense spending during the Cold War. More recently, however, some tech firms obscured their government ties, particularly after the 2013 revelations of government surveillance from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. For today almost all Big Tech companies have become crucial cogs in the U.S. national security establishment...