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Iran bans select industries from using foreign e-mail providers

Iran bans select industries from using foreign e-mail providers
  • Posted May 14, 2012, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News
  • Over the weekend, Iran's telecommunications minster warned that in-country financial institutions, insurance firms and communications companies will be limited exclusively to .ir domains for hosting and email purposes. For better or worse, the national mandate will prevent applicable organizations from…

UK government considers Internet porn filter, requires users to opt-out

UK government considers Internet porn filter, requires users to opt-out
  • Posted May 7, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • UK Prime Minster David Cameron will be consulting with major ISPs about devising a scheme which will block adult content for UK customers. If such a content filter does materialize from the talks, it is expected to be an optional…

Weekend tech reading: FBI seeks wiretappable sites, UK wants to filter porn

Weekend tech reading: FBI seeks wiretappable sites, UK wants to filter porn
  • Posted May 6, 2012, 3:16 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance. In meetings with industry representatives, the White House, and U.S. senators...

Two Firefox add-ons already bypass SOPA's domain censorship

Two Firefox add-ons already bypass SOPA
  • Posted December 22, 2011, 9:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
  • As resistance grows against the Stop Online Piracy Act, some activists are getting creative. If passed, the legislation would allow US Internet service providers to block access to offending domain names at the behest of Hollywood -- that's the gist of it, anyway...

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