On Friday, Anonymous called for an Internet blackout in protest of CISPA, which passed the House on Thursday. If signed into law, CISPA would make it legal for websites to give your personal information to the U.S. government without your permission. Naturally, the hacker collective anonymous is... Read more...
The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) just passed the U.S. House, and will now head to the upper Senate chamber for further deliberation. Rinse and repeat. This isn't the first time that this has happened, but it still poses a major threat to Fourth Amendment rig... Read more...
A reader passed on a really interesting link today, demonstrating that the Department of Defense doesn't want to wait for lawmakers to decide whether or not CISPA will fly. Or perhaps the DoD is worried that CISPA -- or something just as bad -- won't pass, and is therefore doing what it can to ens... Read more...
The House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), despite strongly-worded objections and a threat of a veto from the White House. The Republican-controlled chamber passed the act by 248 to 162, although it's likely to face a tougher... Read more...