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Independence Day
Steve Gillmor Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:44:53 -0000
Tomorrow we celebrate July 4th, and a week later our long National Nightmare is over. On the 11th we deposit our 2G iPhones in the FriendFeed donation bins and officially hook ourselves up to the Enterprise iPhone. The ePhone will change how we work and play, and in the process free us from the tyranny [...]
Regator Wants To Be A Blog Reader For The Masses
Jason Kincaid Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:40:00 -0000
Regator, a new blog aggregator that hopes to reduce the blogosphere down to consumable chunks for the average user, has launched today in private beta. The site acts like a combination between Digg and a standard RSS reader, allowing users to vote on the most popular stories drawn from 3,000 blogs that have been [...]
Google, You Can Eat My Cookies Anytime
Jason Kincaid Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:45:41 -0000
Google has just released a lengthy blog post to announce that it has finally put its privacy policy on its homepage. The search giant has been repeatedly questioned over the last few months over its lack of a readily available privacy policy, which until now has been buried in the “About Google” section of [...]
This Week on CrunchBoard
Peter Sauer Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:13 -0000
Here are some of the jobs listed on CrunchBoard over the last week: Fulltime Senior AJAX/PHP Web DeveloperDriverSide - San Francisco, CA QA EngineerGx5 - Anywhere Software Support SpecialistK&L Wine Merchants - Redwood City, CA GoodBarry .NET Web Development NinjaGoodBarry - San Francisco, CA Head of Web Design & Front-End DevelopmentGlobal Campus - London, UK Quality Assurance CowboyJanus Health - San [...]
Department of Civil Disobedience: Google Should Deliver Its YouTube Data to Viacom in Paper Form
Erick Schonfeld Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:12:30 -0000
The recent court order directing Google to hand over data to Viacom about every YouTube video ever watched strikes many people as an absurd overreach of the law into the privacy of anyone who has ever used YouTube (i.e., almost everyone on the Internet). Google should definitely keep fighting the ruling if it can. [...]
Streamzy: A Fresh Face For Seeqpod’s Streaming Music
Jason Kincaid Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:31:37 -0000
We’ve seen a number of music sites like Seeqpod and Grooveshark that leverage user-uploaded music scattered across the web to offer free, on-demand jukeboxes. These services manage to skirt legal repercussions by only serving content that is hosted on other sites, which makes them harder to sue (though some have tried). Streamzy, a [...]

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500 Internet Fraud Complaint Center - Easy-to-use reporting mechanism that alerts authorities of a suspected criminal or civil violation.
Meta Description: [ Internet Crime Complaint Center ]

Abuse.com - Resource guides and bulletins for combating Internet-related abuse
Meta Description: [ Resources for dealing with various types of abuse. ]

Adventures of an Open Proxy Server - Security whitepaper discussing proxy honeypots and observations on the types of abuse that are aided and enabled by insecure proxy servers.
Meta Description: [ LURHQ Corporation is the trusted provider of managed security services. This technical security research discusses how the ]

Composing a Useful Abuse Report - What to include, what to omit, and who to send it to.
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Cyber Law Enforcement - A network of law enforcement officers who specialize in cybercrime investigation and training. Cover child pornography, cyberstalking, cyberscams and fraud online.
Meta Description: [ The Cyber Law Enforcement Organization is a network of law enforcement officers, who specialize in cybercrime investigation, training other law enforcement officers and assist cybercrime victims online ]

eWEEK.com's Special Report on Cyber-Crime - Articles on cyber-crime, scams and security breaches.
Meta Description: [ eWEEK.com's Special Report on Cyber-Crime, Scams and Security Breaches ]

Help! I have been blacklisted! - Provides recommendations for administrators who have found their networks or servers publicly or privately blacklisted for alleged abuse.
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Net Abuse FAQ Index - A collection of Frequently Asked Questions related to net abuse, including spamming and e-mail scams.

Network Abuse Clearinghouse - A database of addresses for reporting Internet abuse.

NewsFactor: Fighting Internet Abuse: Things You Can Do - Brief introduction to basic techniques for tracing, reporting, and protecting against internet abuse.
Meta Description: [ It takes about ten seconds to find that a particular IP address maps back to a certain ISP, whereupon you can simply drill down to the relevant contact e-mail addresses for the abuse admins. ]

Pirated Sites - A portal for sites pilfered, plundered and otherwise not original. Working to stop the theft of design and code.

ScamBusters - Monthly e-zine about recognizing, preventing and fighting all types of fraud, misinformation and abuse perpetuated with the help of the internet.
Meta Description: [ ScamBusters Has Helped People Protect Themselves From Clever Internet Scams, Identity Theft and Urban Legends Since 1994 ]

404 The Role of Insecured Proxies in Internet Abuse - Paper from a presentation discussing the role of insecure proxies in various forms of internet abuse, including spam, denial of service, fraud, and cracking.

Webguardian - A nonprofit Internet watchdog, providing protection and advice for consumers and reducing Internet crime and fraud.

www.cyberbullying.ca - Information about and resources to stop harassment by computer.