Microsoft just announced the launch of a center to “boost the global fight against cybercrime.” This new center called the Cybercrime Center recently opened on the campus of Microsoft’s U.S. headquarters. The center “will combine the legal and technical expertise of Microsoft and the existing developed innovative tools and technologies” to fight against viruses, infringement
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The censorship of the incident that happened on October 29th in the famous Tiananmen Square demonstrates the continued commitment of China to eliminate any challenge. But how does China manages to control internet and social networks? … The vehicle that drove into the crowd on Monday 29th and was set into fire under Mao’s portrait
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With 1.2 billion users, Mark Zuckerberg’ social network is the most used web network in the world. However, it is still not available in many countries. Some governments block it, want to control the information or to use pure censorship … Here is a list of countries that block or censor Facebook. Bangladesh Internet and
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For its 10th anniversary, The Pirate Bay, torrent most contested p2p site offered a new web browser meant to bypass censorship in some countries. The download PirateBrowser page refers to countries such as Iran, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Italy. The tool is based on Tor, Firefox Portable Edition and Foxy Proxy is used to
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According to Pokerfuse, one of Russia’s main Internet Service Providers (ISPs) blocked the international version of PokerStars.com, following a law of the Russian Supreme Court dated back from 2012. Russian poker players are one of the largest fan communities in poker. According to PokerTableRatings site, Russia is the 4th country in the world in terms
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To understand the Chinese censorship system, Gary King, a professor of political science at Harvard University was tricky to intrude inside. According to the Technology Review website, this professor and two colleagues created a fake Chinese social networking site in order to understand how censorship really operates in this country. We thus discover that the
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This is a big paradox: the Iranian government recommends the ministers to be on Facebook, while the site remains blocked for the rest of the Iranian people. The initiative comes from the new president Hassan Rouhani who has decided to enable and even encourage his ministers to create their own Facebook page through the Facebook
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Yahoo China which was operated by Alibaba Group, a Chinese e-commerce and Internet services, has just closed its Web portal. The good-bye message displayed on the website redirects indeed visitors to now.taobao.com and explains that the decision to shut down Yahoo China’s portal complies with the 2012 agreement made between Alibaba Group and Yahoo!. The closing
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On August 3rd, China censored The Wall Street Journal, making it the third-largest U.S. media to be blocked by the “Great Wall Computer” The Chinese version of the Wall Street Journal is now inaccessible to Chinese users do not have to bypass techniques, as shown in the site GreatFire.org that monthly checks the availability of
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“This article was censored for the Bettencourt scandal .” Mediapart and Le Point websites actually deleted all the articles and audio clips incorporating the extracts records from the billionaire Liliane Bettencourt. The sites thus respect the decision of the Court of Appeal of Versailles, which had held that the recordings violated the privacy of the famous owner
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