Tor User? Here’s What you Need to Know.
We brought you the story of the hidden websites hosting abusive child pornography disappearing from Tor earlier this week, and the problems with Tor’s email hosting. It’s odd, as Tor was designed to allow users to fly under the radar, keeping their identities a secret and allowing them to post questionable content without fear.
Commercial data warehouses were something of a struggle. Massive data volumes weren’t handled with ease, and the whole thing was a relative mess. Companies have been trying to solve this problem for a long time, though few came close to providing any real solutions. Amazon has changed all of that with Redshift.
Projection: US-Based Cloud Hosting Companies to Lose Billions.
Government internet surveillance in the United States is troublesome. What might be even more troublesome is economic impact that recent NSA news will have on the cloud computing industry in the USA. Some numbers coming from the ‘Information Technology and Innovation Foundation’ point to billions in losses thanks to NSA surveillance.
Hackers Sending Illegal Images to Harmless Sites.
Filters or not, hackers will find a way. Nothing demonstrates that better than a recent story out of the UK, on the heels of the mandatory ISP filters for pornography their government is talking about imposing.
http://www.ananova.com/aws-vs-azure-is-one-better-than-another-for-programmers/
When it comes to cloud hosting services, does one company excel? Which one should you choose (or recommend to your boss)? Here’s a closer look at Microsoft’s Azure vs. Amazon’s Web Services (AWS).
http://www.ananova.com/how-to-clean-up-site-links/
Thanks to new search algorithms, dead backlinks or bad backlinks won’t go unpunished. What that means is that it’s time for any site (cheap hosting site or otherwise) to clean up some of those links. Performing a site link audit is something that has to be done periodically in order to keep search engines like Google happy. Here’s how to accomplish that task with some ease.
http://www.ananova.com/dublin-man-arrested-after-tor-child-porn-bust/
Eric Eoin Marques, arrested on a warrant issued from United States authorities on online child pornography charges, was called “the largest facilitator of child porn on the planet” by the FBI. He was a resident of Dublin, Ireland, and operated hidden services hosted by the hosting company he founded, Freedom Hosting, to host the highly illegal material.
Cyber bullying is a big problem. It’s a problem that we’ve addressed on this site. We’ve also talked a lot about cyber squatting via cheap hosting sites. In a sort of mix of both forms of cyber crime, the state of Arizona has made an interesting move.
http://www.ananova.com/az-law-could-outlaw-parodies/
http://www.ananova.com/more-torrent-sites-blocked-in-uk/
Yesterday, we announced that all adult content would be blocked for UK residents. We also reported that publishers are urging companies like Google to remove pirated websites from the Internet. Today, we report that a ton of UK torrent (and other) websites have been blocked from view.
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