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  • Photos: Sydneysiders protest internet filtering

    Protesters came together in every major city around the country on Saturday to demonstrate against the Labor Governments' proposed internet filtering scheme. We went to the Sydney protest and spoke to some of the protesters.

  • US subway hackers still gagged

    A US judge let stand a temporary restraining order preventing three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from discussing or disclosing their research into security vulnerabilities in the payment system for the local subway system.

  • Judge halts Defcon hacking speech

    A federal judge on Saturday in the US granted the Massachusetts transit authority's request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system.

  • Acxiom uses personal questions for authentication

    US data warehouse company Acxiom last week announced FactCheck-X Authenticate, a new biographical authentication service that asks users random questions based on their personal lives.

  • Microsoft DRM U-turn 'a betrayal'

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Microsoft has "betrayed" MSN Music customers and wants the company to make things right by issuing an apology, refunds, and eliminate digital rights management technology from the Zune music player.

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  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

  • Sony BMG faces the music

    Attorney Eric J. Sinrod explains why legal woes are mounting for the record label over its CD fiasco.

  • Part One: Why open source will rule

    Linux and the open-source movement have come a long way since the foundation of the Open Source Initiative in the late 1990s but does it have the credibility it needs to succeed in the business world?

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  • DVD cracking T-shirt taken to court!

    Can a T-shirt break the law? Copyleft, the maker of a popular T-shirt displaying code to a DVD-cracking program, is added to a high-profile piracy lawsuit.

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