Update: still the blockade continues..."he EFF tried to get the gag order lifted off the three MIT students who had planned a presentation on how Boston's subway system was vulnerable to some hacks. However, a judge...
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"With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public WiFi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room.But in a case of reporters spying on other reporters, three journalists working for the French...
TV interviewer Martin Bashir, who came to prominence after interviewing Diana, Princess of Wales, about her failed marriage in 1995, issued the apology after he had a "moment of stupidity" and made a "tasteless"...
The apology came after border police "clashed" with the Japanese journalists who had arrived in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region after an alleged terrorist attack Monday left 16 police dead, Xinhua news agency...
Three websites blocked in China earlier this week are NowUncensored." The last two days have seen some serious complaints from the international media about China's ongoing Internet censorship, which was supposed to...
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In the face of blistering criticism, the IOC has succeed in getting the Chinese government to let in some of the websites they had previously blocked. The question is whether these will be widely trafficked...
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Chinese president Hu Jintao once again urged people not to politicise the Games. Hu again emphasized that the core aim for the Olympics was to promote international peace and friendship. His comments followed the...
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As reported yesterday, the IOC is going to allow China to block access to certain areas and certain web sites to the thousands of journalists going to be covering the Olympics. This was despite promising repeatedly...
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Would any one of us go for this? I don't think so. "The Chinese government confirmed Wednesday what journalists arriving at the lavishly outfitted media center here had suspected: Contrary to previous assurances by Olympic and government officials, the Internet would be...
China will continue to censor the internet even during Olympic games despite the assurances given at the time of bidding. Chinese authorities have made it clear that some sites would be inaccessible during Olympic games. Some international news pages and...
Amid the campaign for a recall referendum in few days time, Bolivian President Evo Morales accused media owners- not journalists- of misinforming over his administration. He called such policy media terrorism....
Where are the Conservative Journalists? Over at the Politico, Jonathan Martin writes, "GOP losing the new-media war." The article is generating some thoughtful discussion from conservative tech folks inside the...
Radovan Karadzic's secret life has revealed...he had a girlfriend, a dark-haired middle aged woman that he introduced as Mila, whom he presented as an associate in his alternative medicine business. " The...
According to Human Rights lawyer Barbara J. Olshansky, the US in building a jail in Afghanistan to hold local journalists. Apparently, the United States detains reporters, photographers, camera operators and...