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The FBI Is Now (Officially) Spying on Your Internet Activity [Privacy]
The FBI has probably been monitoring the web activity of random citizens for quite some time, but today, as Cnet reports, the law enforcement bureau has formed a dedicated unit for the purpose of internet surveillance. But its end goal is a bit different than you may think.More »
Sunstroke: Bringing Fever to the App Store
Recent changes to Google's privacy policy have spurred many thoughts of abandoning ship in search of Google alternatives. While leaving Google altogether is probably an overreaction, it's worth taking inventory of just how much or your data travels through the Google pipeline. Yes, Google service...
How to Destroy the Internet [Internet]
Remember when Anonymous threatened to destroy the entire internet? We laughed, and ultimately their words were just hacker hubris. But it got us thinking—could someone actually destroy the Internet?More »
New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech [Politics]
Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and "baseless political attacks"?More »
Keep Track of Forrst Posts using Bosquet
Just recently, I wrote a review of Leef App for iPhone. The idea is built around accessing Forrst and browsing the latest questions, shots, code snippets, and popular links. Up until recently, there hasn't been much competition for Forrst on iOS.Except the new release of Bosquet really turns thin...
The Religious Extremists Who Want to Ban the Internet [Video]
The average home attendance for the New York Mets this year has been 27,683. On Sunday, Citi Field drew 40,000—almost full capacity. Why? Not baseball, but religious radicals who think the internet is a dangerous, mortal evil.More »
40,000 Orthodox Jews Protest the Internet at NYC Baseball Stadium [Protests]
Citi Field is usually home to the Mets, but yesterday the stadium was filled by over 40,000 Orthodox Jews—who gathered to discuss the dangers of the Internet.More »
Very NSFW: What Happens When You Visit an Internet Stranger Who Wants to Drink Your Pee? [Nsfw]
When last we spent some video time with Vice's interent love pioneer Karley "Slutever" Sciortino, she had hopped over to London to meet her anonymous online sex slave. But while in the neighborhood, why not meet up with one more?More »
Meet the Man Who Invented the Instructions for the Internet [Internet]
Steve Crocker was there when the internet was born. The date was Oct. 29, 1969, and the place was the University of California, Los Angeles. Crocker was among a small group of UCLA researchers who sent the first message between the first two nodes of the ARPAnet, the U.S. Department of Defense-fu...
Comcast Increases Its Monthly Data Cap from 250GB to 300GB [Comcast]
In a welcome move that Comcast says is due to our changing Internet habits (streaming, streaming, streaming), Comcast is upping its monthly data caps from 250GB to 300GB. Nice! That's definitely less awful. This is the first increase in data cap size since Comcast introduced it back in 2008.More ...
