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Looks like Astro news can no longer be trusted to keep news channels uncensored. Two parts were edited out, one showing policeman firing on protestors and another, a disgruntled protester explaining the reasons why he is marching for Bersih 3.0.
Al-Jazeera appears to have been affected as well as shown in this video:
This is by no means a validation of Bersih 3.0, since it seems that despite its apparently noble aims, it was poorly organized and there are some huge questions to be answered as to whether the opposition instigated a police response by encouraging the breaking down of the barriers.
and someone who doesn’t take difficult questions very well:
So we the Rakyat have two choices: A government that has lost touch of reality and the people OR an opposition (especially its leader) that resorts to populist and questionable techniques (including flip flopping on a whole bunch of issues)? Malaysia deserves better.
What I propose for Bersih 4.0 is for a peaceful rally and a coordinated singing of everyone present of the national anthem Negaraku (not the Name Wee version please). Thousands of people, one song, a show of patriotism, non partisan and peaceful. Now THAT would be a powerful message. Not this hooliganism or ‘Reformasi’.
This was a recent article posted in the Malay Mail:
KUALA LUMPUR: The Dewan Rakyat today passed two bills namely the Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Bill 2012 and Evidence (Amendment) Bill 2012.
The bills, which include amendments to the Penal Code that was approved yesterday, are to complement the Security Offences (Special Measures) Bill 2012, which was also passed by the Dewan Rakyat yesterday.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz, when winding up the Evidence (Amendment) Bill 2012, said the use of pseudonyms or anonymity by any party to do cyber crimes had made it difficult for the action to be taken against them.
Hence, he said, the Evidence Act 1950 had to be amended to address the issue of internet anonymity.
“The use of pseudonyms (by any party) is very difficult for the investigating officer to conduct investigations and enforcement because it’s difficult to obtain evidence.
“That why, we have to amend the Act so that we can prosecute the culprits,” he said when replying to a question from Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin (BN-Kinabatangan).
He said various techniques were used by criminals to hide their identities and sometimes it was impossible to determine the actual originator of an email or other electronic communication.
Amendments to the Evidence (Amendment) Bill (No.2) 2012, show that the amendments on Clause 2, which aimed to replace the computer term with the definition of a new computer that is more comprehensive and consistent with the definition of a computer in the Computer Crimes Act 1997.
Meanwhile, Clause 3 of the Bill provides to introduce a new section called 114A to enable the court to make assumptions of fact in cases that involve broadcast via the Internet.
In short, the authorities need a scape goat. If they can’t get the real poster/publisher of offending material, they’ll get someone else to take the blame.
Loyar Burok has an excellent article on this here but in short the amendments will basically make webmasters, Facebook owners and other online publishers presumed to be a publisher of material even where such postings are done by a third party. Facebook wall posts by your friends, tweet/facebook jacking, comments on your blog….yup you’re now all presumed to have published them!
Just the other day, I overheard some friends chatting about Game of Thrones and how they couldn’t wait for the next episode to be released. I haven’t started the second series quite yet, but it has definitely been on my mind. I got to thinking, and it seems like there are a lot of highly anticipated movies coming out this year. 2012 has some incredible films and shows in the works, and I thought we could take a minute to count the highest anticipated films and shows coming out, starting with…
Prometheus
If you’re a sci-fi fan, this is the movie for you. Prometheus has been coming out with teaser trailers for a while, each one better than the last, and each making us freak out a little on the inside. It might not have Sigourney Weaver in it, but it definitely looks like it will be a decent flick. Here is the most recent “trailer.”
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones has already started, and it definitely makes the list. If you haven’t given the first season a chance, now’s the time to do it. When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground. I just can’t wait to begin hating this guy again:
The Avengers
What happens when you combine Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, and Captain American movies? The most anticipated sequel of the summer. Following the comic books, this sequel should turn even the slightest of geeks racing for the theaters.
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings films are so epic by every standard of movie making that it’s hard to think of what they can do to one up them. In an effort to do just that, The Hobbit will be coming out in, you guessed it, 3D. Whether you’re a skeptic who things this type of gimmick should stay out of much awaited movies, or you just love your current dimension so much that you need it in the theater, The Hobbit is definitely one of the most anticipated productions of the year. It doesn’t help that they have a video blog of the movie making process, making fans more eager by the second.
The Dark Knight Rises
The final movie in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is set to come out this year, and it looks like the last Batman movie we’ll see in a while. Normally I would be more hesitant when it comes to the third of a trilogy (Matrix, Back to the Future, the Terminator, Cube…), but based on how good the first two were I’m pretty excited.
Brave
And finally we come to Brave. Brave may not even have made it on your horizon, but I think you should give it a second chance. Here’s a test: name the last awful Pixar move. Doesn’t exist, right? Some people think Brave looks too much like a simple fairytale (it is coupled with Disney…), but I think Pixar knows what they’re doing.
We’ll keep you up to date on new flick and shows, let us know about other movies you are looking forward to and we’ll try to include them!
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Recently there have been some allegations against Ultrasurf saying that the popular anonymizer might not be as safe as it claims. Jacob Appelbaum, developer at Tor, posted an in-depth review of the security issues he found with the service which allowed him to track down individual users.
Basically, Appelbaum reverse engineered the network using commercial software and found several vulnerabilities. He took his findings to Ultrasurf and spoke with them at length during a “quite positive” meeting where they planned to address the issues. This was in December, and Appelbaum has just now decided to go public with his findings. You can download the full report here.
The meat of the research is centered on Ultrasurf’s claims that their users are protected with anonymous searching, untraceable, unblockable, invisible (users don’t leave a trace), anonymous, and tamperproof. “The vulnerabilities presented in this paper are not merely theoretical in nature; they may present life-threatening danger in hostile situations. We recommend against the use of Ultrasurf for anonymity, security, privacy and Internet censorship circumvention.” Check out Tor’s blog for their side of the story.
Needless to say, these are some serious allegations. Ultrasurf responded. They assert that Tor’s claims were not valid, and that the problems had been fixed months ago. They did note that they appreciated Tor’s efforts in bringing the issues to light, but not the way in which it was handled. Ultrasurf claims that:
Tor has not been able to break Ultrasurf. The paper asserts that it is possible to monitor the content of Ultrasurf sessions, but they have not been able to actually demonstrate this.
Tor has only partly understood our security structure, and they have failed to break the core mechanisms for protection.
In each case where Tor has indicated a security shortcoming in Ultrasurf, we have moved rapidly to address it and communicated this to Tor. However, their report failed to acknowledge these efforts.
Tor repeatedly and knowingly makes false and outdated statements about Ultrasurf, which are detailed in our full response.
Kyle Williams also responded to Tor’s research with some of his own, and much harsher, reviews of Ultrasurf. He claims that the entire network is “total spyware,” complete with Trojans and connections to the U.S. government. Take a look here for his view.
Without further investigation it’s hard to decipher whether Tor’s claims completely take the rug out of Ultrasurf, or if Ultrasurf has, in fact, addressed all the issues. Either way, it becomes apparent that no matter which sites you chose to secure your privacy, you have to be very careful of the sites you use to do it. If the claims are true, Ultrasurf users may be at a severe risk. Be very careful when choosing your VPN providers, internet.
Mobile devices now cover over 8.5% of all internet traffic, and although we love having the internet on the run, we seem to have forgotten how to use the internet safely. Everyone uses some sort of security on their laptop: virus protection, VPN, spyware protection, ad blockers, ad list blockers, etc. But is seems that there has not been nearly as much attention paid to mobile security.
In a previous post, we talked about how mobile devices are causing serious data security issues for companies. Let’s talk about how these same devices are killing your privacy. That’s right, we’re talking about apps.
Just recently, a RockYou Inc. agreed to pay $250,000 in settlements after being accused of taking personal information from children. The scariest part of this is that this is just one of many cases. It seems that many companies have no scruples when it comes to taking personal and private information from their users.
This is just a single area where apps are butting in and learning information you might not want them to know, such as your religion, where you shop, and many other personal preferences. What we need is a little more questioning, and a little more stubbornness on the users end. If the app does not disclose its entire data usage, don’t use it. A simple move like this, done by enough people, will solve the problem quickly and efficiently.
This is not all to say that no one is noticing this increase in app privacy breaches, they are, it’s just that users don’t seem to grasp the idea. For some reason, people continue to skip the little notification that says the app will access personal information, assume the app has good intentions, and blindly click “allow.”
As usual, the IPT password has been changed.
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