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)UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia (Monday 08th of December 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Concerned Wikipedian writes "Starting December 4th, Wikipedia administrators noticed a surge of
edits from certain IP addresses. These IPs turned out to be the proxies for the content filters
of at least 6 major UK ISPs. After some fact-finding by Wikipedians, ...
(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)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)Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses (Wednesday 06th of August 2008 01:15:01 PM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Protesting that Tufts University's DHCP-based systems 'were not
designed to facilitate juristic examinations,' but rather to ensure 'smooth operational quest
and to manage mass issues,' the IT Office at Tufts health center ...
(more)Google Mail Servers Enable Backscatter Spam (Wednesday 09th of April 2008 05:00:01 AM)
Mike Morris writes "Google email servers are responsible for a large volume of backscatter
spam. No recipient validation is being performed for the domains googlegroups.com and
blogger.com — conceivably for other Google domains as well, but these ...
(more)Ameritrade Security Audit Finds Privacy-Busting Back Door (Saturday 15th of September 2007 01:15:02 PM)
RalphTheWonderLlama writes "In recent months, online stock brokers have apparently been upset
by the sale of their email addresses to spammers. Today TD Ameritrade released details of their
investigation into the matter (along with a video message from ...
(more)Oklahoma Security Expert Attacks RIAA Claims (Wednesday 08th of August 2007 07:40:18 PM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A group of Oklahoma University students has made a motion to
vacate the ex parte order the RIAA had obtained compelling the university to turn over their
names and addresses. In support of their motion was the expert witness ...
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