Having unsupervised USA government agencies being able to steal domains isn’t nice. But UN taking over the Internet and giving it to ITU IS MUCH WORSE. Really people, this is an actual problem. If ITU takes over internet governance we’re talking Iran level stupidity: national intranets, mandatory DPI and filtering, firewalls everywhere and long distance charges. Don’t let this happen.

Remember when Apple accidentally exposed the passwords of users using a deprecated version of FileVault ? That was pretty bad. Microsoft, obviously trying to beat Apple at their own game decided it would be a good idea to expose everybody’s password on Windows 8. I guess Microsoft is also working on Santander security And yeah, still no WP8 SDK.

Samsung Galaxy 4” Mini. Really. You can’t make this stuff up.

NVIDIA can’t use DMA-BUF. I’m not exactly sure what DMA-BUF is but if Alan Cox goes on record saying they can’t use it, they can’t use it.

The plan is unfolding and US officially considers Huawei and ZTE spies and good US companies don’t want to be on the wrong side of the line. Canada doesn’t seem to trust them either but doesn’t want to hurt their feelings. In parallel, US courts are deciding anyone can read your email.

Anonymous are pretty consistent for a loosely knit group and decided they can’t stand behind Wikileak’s new paywall.

Turns out Britons don’t want censorship and mass state surveillance which isn’t stunning. Also not stunning, Saudi Arabia wants world wide censorship and surveillance

If you have any doubt all RIAAs should burn watch this.

Microsoft is apparently getting ready to launch Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Windows RT, Surface, Surface Pro, all of the above, a mix, some or not just now. Nobody can tell. What’s for sure is a couple of weeks before Window Phone 8 comes out there’s still no SDK in sight. My best bet is WP8 isn’t done yet and phones will be shipping with 7.5 and demanding an upgrade RealSoon. In that case there’s no good reason to have apps ready is it ?

WoW, we all fall down.

Turns out if you create a job that requires no qualifications, has no real background check, consist of frisking people, having private access to their stuff and the right to mess with it you attract a lot of thieves.

The portuguese public attorney decided not to pursue a “piracy” complaint against 2000 john does mostly because of incompetent way one of the local *IAAs formed it and because non comercial sharing between individuals isn’t an harmful enough activity to go after criminally. Here you have a english link. Meanwhile the Dutch High Court decides copyright law is a mess.

Rent a computer, get porn of you recorded. Not as shocking as Facebook getting in bed with retail outlets to like products you buy.

NZ broke the law on the case against Kim Dotcom ? I’m shocked! And SOPA is back as a presidential Executive Order ? Where’s the hope man ??

Assange and wikileaks are now a “Enemy of the State” according to the US military. This means anyone suspected of aiding Assange or wikileaks can now be droned. No, I’m not making this up and Sweden, you better cough up and/or keep the Pirate Bay jailed for no known reason.

Plaintext passwords IEEE ? Really ? Not as bad is pushing a backdoor into the NIST encryption standard though.

It’s almost as if nothing tech related happened this week.