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walled-wide-web-for-nervous-autocrats
A Walled Wide Web for Nervous Autocrats But just a few weeks before Mr. Putin publicly endorsed open-source software, FBI Director Robert Mueller toured Silicon Valley’s leading companies to ask their CEOs to build back doors into their software, making it easier for American law enforcement and intelligence gathering agencies to eavesdrop on online conversations.
controlling-crawling-indexing-web-media
Comprehensive Robot.txt Resource Everything you did and did not want to know about robot.txt files.
breaking-the-webs-cookie-jar
[The Latest From Coding Horror] The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works: * Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network. In other words, a WiFi network that doesn’t require a password before you can connect to it. * Install Firefox and the Firesheep [...]
nanny-state-proponents-spoof-google
Of course, more government regulation is always the solution for the “Nanny State” proponents. Real Freedom means the freedom to be stupid and uniformed, as well as uneducated in the plentiful methods to protect your privacy on the Internet. However, that would require taking responsibility for yourself.
