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Technology | Hi-tech criminals target Twitter

Posted by Newshogg from BBC News

It was only a matter of time before this happened. Puts the whole issue of 'who do we trust' back in the frame (if it ever left). But will make the Twitterati sit up and think?

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Air Force cracks software, carpet bombs DMCA

Posted by Garrett from Ars Technica

Last week, a US Court of Appeals upheld a ruling on software piracy. The organization doing the piracy, however, happened to be a branch of the US government, and the decision highlights the significant limits to the application of copyright law to the government charged with enforcing it. Most significantly, perhaps, the court found that because the DMCA is written in a way that targets individual infringers, the government cannot be liable for claims made under the statute.

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Google Says Complete Privacy Does Not Exist

Posted by Jeff

In a submission to court, Google is arguing that in the modern world there can be no expectation of privacy. Google is being sued by a Pennsylvania couple after their home appeared on Google's Street View pages. The couple's house is on a private road clearly marked as private property.

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After the Election, Will Obama’s Online Army Target Congress?

Posted by Shemuses

Eight million list members. One million MyBarackObama members. Nearly two million Facebook/MySpace "friends." A couple of million online donors. By the time November comes around, those numbers will have grown - and Barack Obama is likely to be on his way to the White House. Assuming he wins, what will he do with his online following? Will Congress be next in his sights? Obama will be the first true president of a different media age, the era of networked communications, so will he use the new online tools to shape his millions of supporters into a club to shift votes on Capitol Hill?

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The Newest YouTube Stars: Campaign Managers

Posted by Shemuses from Washington Post

As of yesterday afternoon, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama had uploaded 1,410 videos on their YouTube channels -- 224 from McCain and 1,186 from Obama. Surprisingly, some of the more interesting, revealing of these videos were posted by their campaign managers. While they may not have been watched as heavily as others, these four videos tell us about the respective campaigns' differing online strategies.

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Perez Hilton Hates Yellow People

Posted by Shemuses

Ever wonder how an internet meme gets started? Or, for that matter, how it then spreads and metastasizes until it becomes accepted fact? Over the last week, we've seen one particular meme develop about China: "China Hates Black People" (courtesy of Perez Hilton). His idea didn't, however, originate with Perez Hilton. It started last Friday with a story in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, "Authorities order bars not to serve black people," which alleged that Chinese government authorities were secretly planning to ban blacks from bars during the Olympic games.

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R.N.C. Creates Facebook Parody Site for Obama

Posted by Shemuses from Thecaucus.blogs.nytimes

The RNC is proving itself consistently willing to mess around online, having some fun and seeing what might work. The question is, are they free to do so having got online organizing nailed down, given that conventional wisdom is that the Bush '04 race demonstrated the GOP's mastery of voter targeting and GOTV? Or is stuff like BarackBook a diversion and waste of resources?

An early glance at the R.N.C. mockup shows Mr. Rezko with his own profile page that lists links to Mr. Obama and other "friends" of the Illinois senator. Other "BarackBook" friends include, Eric Holder, a Washington lawyer and member of Mr. Obama's vice presidential selection team, and William Ayers, one of the founders of the radical group Weather Underground.

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