After the FBI shut down Megaupload, millions of people were locked out of files they had uploaded to the service. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling bullshit on this, and along with Carpathia, MegaUpload’s hosting service, they’ve started MegaRetrieval.com, a new site meant to call attention and serve those affected.
Governments in Bahrain, Algeria, Syria, Iran and the Sudan are all free to snoop their citizens’ Hotmail accounts today, as Microsoft has inexplicably disabled HTTPS support for Hotmail users in those countries.
You may recall Comcast getting busted for interfering with peer-to-peer file sharing communications, especially picking on its users who use BitTorrent. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a detailed report (PDF) that comes close to proving that Comcast was “forging traffic”. The EFF describes exactly how its experts used Wireshark, open-source packet sniffing software, to show that Comcast was injecting forged RST packets into their communications, effectively telling both ends to hang up.
The EFF is getting ready to battle tech patents that they’d argue should be revoked and are in many cases being used to the extent of abuse. The list has a number of vague patents I’d previously never seen before, but they’ve also got some big names like Nintendo (emulator patents) and Clear Channel (live recordings of concerts) on the list. The EFF hopes to have some of these patents revoked or altered to more fair effect. [Wired]
