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Wikileaks Publishes List Of Banned Aussie Sites, Goes Offline

Wikileaks Publishes List Of Banned Aussie Sites, Goes Offline

Wikileaks is known for blowing the whistle on all sorts of things. But just after publishing what it claims is a list of sites banned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) it went offline and hasn’t yet returned.

The list contains sites that Australians are not allowed to access, according to Wikileaks, but the Australian communications minister has said the list is a fake, the Guardian reports, and that whoever leaked the information might be prosecuted.

No Cookies, No Tracking

You’re probably familiar with the Do Not Call List, that way of making sure you avoid annoying calls from telemarketers. A group is now proposing something similar to protect online users.   Nine privacy groups – the Center for Democracy and Technology, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation of America, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy Activism, Public Information Research, Privacy Journal, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, and World Privacy Forum – have asked the Federal Trade Commission today to start  a "Do Not Track List." Its aim is to protect consumers from having their online activities unknowingly tracked, stored, and used by marketers and advertising networks.   It’s one of several consumer protection initiatives the group has asked the FTC to adopt in an attempt for users to keep control of their personal information.   The Do Not Track List would insist on advertising entities that place tracking technologies on consumers’ computers registering all the domain names of the servers involved in such activities with the FTC. Browser application developers would be encouraged to create plug-ins that let users download the Do Not Track list to their computers. Having the list accessible through a browser application would allow users to prevent any site from tracking behavioral data.   "If you look back at the Do Not Call list, it was at one time managed by industry. But it didn’t gain widespread acceptance until the FTC took it over," said Pam Dixon, Executive Director of the World Privacy Forum. "The industry has had seven years to prove they can manage online opt-outs. It is time to move toward something structured like the Do Not Call list to address the problems we are seeing, and have now seen for seven years."

EarthCam Announces Top 25 2005 Webcams

EarthCam, a search engine for finding webcams around the world, today announced their top 25 2005 webcams list. Topping the list are cameras which offer viewers access to the Great Pyramids, koala and panda bears, swimming piranhas and African elephants, among others.

EarthCam said the top 25 list was “chosen by a panel of EarthCam producers who selected the best out of hundreds of popular webcam nominees. Generated by submissions from individual webcam owners, fans and EarthCam researchers throughout the year, many of the nominees were featured in EarthCam’s weekly Top 10 List. The criteria used for judging included quality of the image, uniqueness of the content and overall technical achievements in webcam technology.”

AOL Breach Shows Vulnerability Of System

Jason Smathers allegedly stole AOL screen names while working at AOL offices in Dulles, Va., and sold the list to Sean Dunaway, 21, of Las Vegas, prosecutors say. Dunaway used it to send gambling ads, then sold it to spammers, a criminal complaint said.

Smathers, 24, allegedly used data encryption, AOL Instant Messenger and another employee’s account in April and May 2003 to cull a list of AOL customers’ screen names, ZIP codes, phone numbers and credit card types

AOL Employee Arrested In Spam Scheme

According to the criminal complaint, Jason Smathers of Harpers Ferry, W. Va., used his inside knowledge of AOL’s computer system to steal a list of 92 million AOL customer account “screen names,” and then sold them to Sean Dunaway, who is not an AOL employee.

Dunaway, of Las Vegas, NV., was accused of using the list to promote his own Internet gambling business and also sold the list to other spammers for $52,000, according to David Kelley, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Read the rest of the story at CNN Money.

iPod.iTunes 2.6 Released

A ‘manual mode’ creates a list of iPod tracks not in iTunes, and allows to copy desired tracks from that list. With every synchronization iPod.iTunes creates a date&time stamped iTunes playlistcontaining the tracks which were copied. This gives the option to easily add those tracks to existing playlists or to create new ones from the transferred tracks.

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