$25: that’s the price Google will pay you if you allow them to track your surfing experience: in other words, Google will pay you $25 so as to allow them to look over your shoulder when you browse the internet. Is this something that surprises you? Well, let’s first see the details of this Google offer. [...]
If you are a user of one of Google’s “free” products, I’m sure you have received an e-mail from Google inviting you to check their new and consolidated privacy policy. Had Google hired a professional copywriter to get you reading the privacy policy, when they mention that they have decided to unify almost 60 policies, [...]
Yesterday I wrote about the fact that Anonymous hacked Sony Music’s catalog and made it available for free. While searching for the internet, I could find a website that had the links to the torrent files for downloading the huge catalog. As an example, I could find from the list album a 800Mb torrent file [...]
Megaupload collateral damages, now hits France. On the other hand, Sony’s music and movie catalog was made available for free on the internet last Sunday. We all have heard it : the popular file-sharing platform megaupload.com has been brought down, a ripost from a group called The Anonymous meant to attack major French websites as a [...]
Hotspot Shield, the popular free VPN service, recently added malware protection for its users. The new Hotspot Shield function alerts users if they access domains that are known to contain malware. The add-on is available on Windows, Mac and iOS and uses a database of more than 3 million sites. Speaking about the new feature, David [...]
If you have missed the season One of Project Octopus, you have probably missed a very exciting polar that involves politics, big companies, and internet users. I guess this will turn out to be one of those movies where a conspiracy to control the world is on the way. While I started writing this movie scenario, [...]
This SOPA deal is bringing high politics to the face of lambda internet users. Hadn’t it been for real, the scenario could (or is it already?) inspire some hollywood film producer – or not, since Hollywood is one of the major stakeholder in this SOPA battle. So let me try to be a film writer [...]
UK2.NET, a major player in the web hosting industry, has just launched its own VPN service. The UK company has sold over a million domain names, and hosts thousands of websites and dedicated servers for customers in various countries. The UK VPN provider is expected to bring high quality service, large number of servers and excellent [...]
As I started talking about the opposition between law and internet on my end of year book reading recommendations, it seems like I’ve opened the Pandora’s box here on how-to-hide-ip.info. The issue is simple: innovation is happening so quickly in the internet field, and then legislation tries to catch-up by trying to pass some laws [...]
According to TorrentFreak a the new Spanish government has now fully approved the Sustainable Economy Law (LES) which enables rights holders to have infringing websites shut down within 10 days after a complaint is filed: After holding energy in mid-December, Spain’s incoming Partido Popular (People’s Party) supervision has now entirely authorized their tentative Sustainable Economy Law (LES), [...]
