Emails from the Argentine mistress of married South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford were leaked to the press by a hacker, according to the Latin American siren at the centre of a political scandal in the US Deep South. The emails were obtained by South Carolina newspaper The State back in December but kept on ice…
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…
Players’ Privacy Law Is Brought Into Question
Universities that deny requests for records about athletes may be interpreting too broadly a federal education law that protects the privacy of students’ academic records, a federal education official said Monday. The official, Paul Gammill, said the Department of Education was taking a closer look at how universities carried out the privacy law, known as…