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The White House has released an official statement against SOPA in its current form, but the battle of anti-piracy isn’t over yet…
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In a month The Pirate Bay will no longer offer downloads of .torrent files. Instead, the largest torrent site on the Internet will only provide so-called magnet links to its visitors. The first step in this direction was made today with The Pirate Bay replacing the current default torrent download links with magnets. Could this be the end of an era?After half a decade of loyal service, The Pirate Bay shut down its tracker in November 2009.
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Microsoft released a number of seven security bulletins for January 2012 that address vulnerabilities found in Windows Media, Windows ClickOnce application installer, Windows Object Packager, the operating system’s Kernel, and the now famous SSL/TLS protocol weakness dubbed BEAST.
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Two of Bulgaria’s largest torrent sites have been raided by the country’s organized crime unit. The sites, which served in excess of three quarters of a million members, had been established for several years. Three locations were raided and two site admins, one just 17-years-old, were arrested.
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In a tweet early this morning, cybersecurity researcher Christopher Soghoian pointed to an internal memo of India's Military Intelligence that has been liberated by hackers and posted on the Net. The memo suggests that, "in exchange for the Indian market presence" mobile device manufacturers, including RIM, Nokia, and Apple (collectively defined in the document as "RINOA") have agreed to provide backdoor access on their devices.
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Microsoft has been granted a patent for its “avoid ghetto” feature for GPS devices.A GPS device is used to find shortcuts and avoid traffic, but Microsoft’s patent states that a route can be plotted for pedestrians to avoid an “unsafe neighborhood or being in an open area that is subject to harsh temperatures.”
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