Mozilla on Tuesday released a Web browser that it said is 10 times faster than its original browser. One year after releasing Firefox 3.0, the Mountain View, Calif.-based nonprofit released Firefox 3.5, which it said is two times faster than Firefox 3.0 and 10 times faster than Firefox 2. […] Similar to Microsoft Relevant Products/Services’s…
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Beijing Delays Rule on Software Censor
China’s state-run news agency said late Tuesday that the government had postponed a requirement, set to take effect Wednesday, to equip all newly sold computers with software to filter out objectionable Internet content. Beijing has faced fierce criticism at home and abroad after the requirement became public in early June. China’s own Internet community has…
Pirate Bay sold
Back in April, I read that the file-sharing site Pirate Bay crew had launched a for-fee VPN service, iPREDator, to enhance online anonymity. The Pirate Bay team, having been sentenced for copyright infringement and facing jail time and a fine of $3.6 million, forged ahead anyway and next I read an announcement of a “beta…
EFF: Help Iranian protesters – run a Tor relay
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday urged people to help Iranian protesters “safely communicate and receive information tdespite he barriers being established by Iranian authorities.” EFF notes that one way people can help is to set up a Tor (“The Onion Router”) relay or a Tor bridge. Internet users in Iran are using Tor to…