"The Department of Justice made good its threat to file a motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by EFF against AT&T over its collaboration with the NSA's massive program to wiretap and data-mine...
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"Attorneys Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer claim the carrier violated privacy laws by turning over phone records to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) for a secret government surveillance program."
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"After report says millions of Americans' phone records have been given to the National Security Agency (NSA), Bush says privacy is ''fiercely protected.''"
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"Jeanson James Ancheta, 21, was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for using malicious software to seize control of 400,000 computers and then selling access to the zombie machines to spammers and hackers."
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''This is totally ridiculous. I can't believe you're making this argument,'' Judge Harry T. Edwards told Jacob Lewis, an associate general counsel with the Federal Communications Commission. The federal judge...
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"The United States government filed a Statement of Interest Friday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) class-action lawsuit against ATT, announcing that the government would assert the military and state...
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"Spammers could soon use zombie computers in a totally new way. Infected computers could run programs that spy into a person's email, mine it for information, and generate realistic-looking replies."
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"While the majority of illegal copying and distribution of music and movies occurs over the public Internet on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems, students at colleges and universities have been increasingly using programs like Direct Connect (DC ), MyTunes and OurTunes...
"Microsoft will provide $100 million to support domestic Chinese software enterprises; will purchase Chinese software products and tech support, software development, and testing services worth $100 million; and will make hardware purchases in excess of $700 million each year...
EFF's evidence regarding AT&T's dragnet surveillance of its networks includes a declaration by Mark Klein, a retired AT&T telecommunications technician, and several internal AT&T documents. This evidence...
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The FTC said it has closed down a spam operation in California that sent millions of unwanted messages to online users across the country and fined the companies involved about $2.4 million. But based on the...
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"Federal investigators seized a laptop computer, a hard drive, CDs, and other material from the office of James R. Robinson, 42, a program executive with NASA's In-Space Propulsion, Mission and Systems Management...
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Spam king and online drugstore operator Christopher William Smith, aka Rizler, 26, who is awaiting trial at the Sherburne County Jail, Elk River, Minn., used his phone privileges to arrange a hit on a witness and the...
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"Large well-respected companies are helping to fund the virulent spread of unwanted and potentially harmful adware by paying for advertisements generated by those programs."
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