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Mahateer
Comedian Stephen Fry has said he is "prepared to go to prison" over the "Twitter joke" trial.
Fry was at a benefit gig for a man who is appealing against his conviction for sending a menacing communication.
Paul Chambers had tweeted: "Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You've got a week... otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"
Fry argued that Chambers' tweet was an example of Britain's tradition of self-deprecating humour and banter.
Appeal funds
Chambers' case has become a cause celebre on Twitter, with hundreds of people reposting his original comments in protest at the conviction.
"This [verdict] must not be allowed to stand...
12:05 PM
Mahateer
Ask anyone to recall a three-letter acronym associated with the web and they will probably trot out LOL, OMG, WWW and perhaps even WTF.
But quiz them on what SSL stands for and you are likely to get blank looks.
Yet those three letters and the technology they refer to are more integral to the web than almost all of the other acronyms.
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and, along with the associated TLS system, it is the method by which traffic between a website and anyone visiting it is encrypted to prevent eavesdropping.
When connecting to a secured site, a user's web browser is able to automatically verify its authenticity.
It...
11:50 AM
Mahateer
A leading US privacy group has filed an objection to agreements Google has reached over its social network Buzz.The Buzz experiment was heavily criticised because it automatically enrolled all Gmail users without seeking prior permission.Legal action was taken by a group of Gmail users, with Google agreeing to set up a $8.5m (£5.2m) privacy fund.The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is unhappy that it is not one of the beneficiaries of the fund.This is despite the fact that it filed the original complaint about the service with the Federal Trade Commission.It has asked for $1.75m (£1.09m), claiming that it is a more independent...
11:46 AM
Mahateer
Hundreds of thousands of websites appear to have been compromised by a massive cyber attack.The hi-tech criminals used a well-known attack vector that exploits security loopholes on other sites to insert a link to their website.Those visiting the criminals' webpage were told that their machines were infected with many different viruses.Swift action by security researchers has managed to get the sites offering the sham software shut down.Code controlSecurity firm Websense has been tracking the attack since it started on 29 March. The initial count of compromised sites was 28,000 sites but this has grown to encompass many times this number...
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