Securing the Right to Online Free Speech
These were a surprise for me this morning, I have a dozen emails from some very worried visitors to Jihadwatch.org.
These warnings are not for a real virus, it is what is known as a “false positive” (they got it wrong), ironically it is the counter DDoS protection that the anti-virus software is flagging as malicious, but there is nothing malicious about it, the Javascript is totally benign, only checking if you are a real person, and not some bot.…
David Merkel, CTO of FireEye, a leading IT security firm, has confirmed what I already knew for years, there are a huge number of IS sympathetic muslim hackers out there, actively attacking anything they can, their involvement in defacements spreading propaganda is by far the largest “cause” (that’s what hacktivists call it) that we see on the defacements. I see the results of their hacking attempts daily, and growing exponentially.
Rick Howard, CTO of Palo Alto Networks says the cyber-jihadis …
There is no doubt that the NSA have the ability, resources and approval from Microsoft to listen in on any communication if you believe what Snowden has told The Guardian. Reality is we don’t know for sure, personally I don’t care if the NSA is listening in on my conversations, there is a good chance they can, but I am fairly sure they would be the only ones with that ability, as the encryption Skype uses for all communication …
Google not required to remove ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video. This was a great win for freedom of speech online, and kudos to Google for pursuing it, as you may know, this 14 minute film has quite a history,
July 1st 2012 First uploaded to YouTube
Sept 11th 2012 Film falsely blamed for the savage Benghazi attack in which an Ambassador and three staff killed
Sept 14th 2012 White House ask Google to enforce sharia law
Sept 16th 2012 Continuation …
Often when a site is under DDoS attack, one of the popular methods of repelling it (at the application layer) is to check that a real human with a real browser is behind each request using a bit of Javascript code to authenticate, more about the methods used by firewalls such as Sucuri’s CloudProxy Emergency DDoS protection or CloudFlare’s delayed access “I’m Under Attack” feature if your interested.
While this Javascript DDoS prevention method is great at limiting …
As of today 3rd May 2015, The Computer Misuse Act 1990 has been amended to include a life sentence in section 7
…an act causing or creating a significant risk of
serious damage to human welfare of the kind mentioned in subsection (3)(a) or (3)(b), or
serious damage to national security,
Also earlier in Section 2
Damage is of a “material kind” for the purposes of this section if it is—
damage to human welfare in any place;
damage to