BitTorrent is arguably the most efficient peer-to-peer protocol for content replication. However, BitTorrent has not been designed with privacy in mind and its popularity could threaten the privacy of millions of users. Surprisingly, privacy threats due to BitTorrent have been overlooked because BitTorrent popularity gives its users the illusion that finding them is like looking…
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CBS apologizes for “terrible mistake in judgment”
Steve Schwaid, Director of News and Digital Content for CBS Atlanta has published an unabashed apology for the station’s poor taste in airing a video yesterday as part of its coverage of the arrest of Lishan Wang for shooting a Yale University doctor. That story did not appear on PogoWasRight.org, as it was not a…
Without Scalia, whither anonymity?
Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog has a recap of oral arguments in John Doe No. 1 v. Reed, the case where petition signers want their names kept private: Justice Antonin Scalia, using history, sarcasm and political taunts, laid down a barrage of objections Wednesday to a plea that the Supreme Court create a new constitutional right…
Apple asked for ‘lost’ iPhone criminal probe (update 9)
Mary Duan reports: The criminal investigation into the purported theft of an apparent iPhone prototype came at the request of Apple Inc., officials said Tuesday. Investigators said they have identified and interviewed the person who took the phone from the Gourmet Haus Staudt on March 18 after it was left there by Apple engineer Gray…