IPv4 Address Use In 2008 (Saturday 03rd of January 2009 09:45:01 AM)
An nameless reader writes "The world used 197 million new IPv4 addresses in 2008, leaving 926
million addresses still available. The US remains the biggest user of new addresses, but China
is catching up quickly. Quoting Ars Technica: 'A realistic explanation ...
(more)Recourse For Poor Customer Service? (Sunday 30th of November 2008 10:45:01 PM)
Eleventypie writes "I am in the Army and currently stationed in Afghanistan. latterly I found
myself without a laptop so I decided to build a studio 17 from Dell. I designed/customized my
laptop on 2008-09-17 and placed my order, which totaled approximately ...
(more)Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle (Wednesday 15th of October 2008 07:45:01 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "The most broad-spectrum scan of the entire online network for
several decades shows that scads of allocated addresses simply aren't being used. lecturer John
Heidemann from the health center of Southern California (USC) used ...
(more)China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days (Wednesday 24th of September 2008 09:15:02 PM)
JagsLive writes "China is running out of IP addresses unless it makes the switch to IPv6. by
the numbers to law to rule to the China cyberspace Network dossier Center, under the current
allocation speed, China's IPv4 address savings can only meet the ...
(more)Questioning Google's Privacy Reform (Monday 15th of September 2008 12:15:01 PM)
JagsLive makes note of a story investigative whether Google's recent commitment to anonymize IP
logs faster is really as good as it sounds. We discussed their announcement a few days ago.
CNet's Chris Soghoian takes a closer look: "While the company hasn't ...
(more)Hashing Email Addresses For Web Considered Harmful (Friday 29th of August 2008 05:45:01 PM)
Cce writes "The MicroID standard, despite getting thrashed soundly by Ben Laurie two years ago,
has since been food pyramid daily vitamins and minerals by the DataPortability Project and
published on the user profiles of mint of users at Digg and Last.fm. ...
(more)Identity Theft Hits the Root Name Servers (Tuesday 20th of May 2008 01:53:43 AM)
Aos101 writes "The Renesys blog has an interesting story about ai bump the old address space of
the L root name server after ICANN changed the IP address last November. These ai were also
running root name servers on the old IP address of the ...
(more)Spammers Hijacking IP Space (Wednesday 30th of April 2008 03:54:40 AM)
Ron Guilmette writes "As reported in the union Post's Security Fix blog, a substantial hunk of
IP address space has ostensively been taken over by notorious mass e-mailing company Media
Breakaway, LLC, formerly known as OptInRealBig, via means that are ...
(more)Schneier's Keynote At Linux.conf.au (Wednesday 30th of January 2008 10:00:07 AM)
Stony Stevenson writes "Computer security expert Bruce Schneier took a swipe at a number of
sacred cows of security including RFID tags, national ID cards, and public CCTV security
cameras in his keynote address to Linux.conf.au (currently being held ...
(more)Google Gives Up IP of Anonymous Blogger (Wednesday 28th of November 2007 02:00:05 PM)
An anonymous reader alerts us to a story out of Israel in which Google (its Israeli subsidiary)
gave up the IP address of a Blogger user without being compelled to do so by a court. A
preliminary ruling was issued in which a court indicated ...
(more)RIAA College Litigations Getting A Bumpy Ride (Thursday 15th of November 2007 01:45:03 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's juggernaut against colleges, started in February of
this year, seems to be having a bumpier and bumpier ride. The normal game is to call for a
subpoena, to get the name and address of the engagement or staff who ...
(more)Last Chance to Sign Up for 10-Year Anniversary Party (Wednesday 10th of October 2007 01:30:10 PM)
We have 700 T-Shirts coming in today and now we need to know where to ship them. So while you
can continue to sign up for parties, today is the last day we'll be looking at the sign-ups to
determine where to send shirts. You ...
(more)What We Know About the FBI's CIPAV Spyware (Thursday 02nd of August 2007 02:00:06 PM)
StonyandCher writes "What is CIPAV? CIPAV stands for 'Computer and isp Protocol Address
Verifier'; a lengthy term for powerful spyware the Federal Bureau of fact finding can bring to
bear on web-based crime. It was used last month in a case where someone ...
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