A Tucson man was arrested on charges of fraud and computer tampering for allegedly commandeering Comcast’s local feed of the Super Bowl and playing 37 seconds of pornography. Comcast quickly offered its customers a $10 credit for the incident, whether they were witness to it or not.
A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll reveals that almost 70% of Facebook users and 52% of Google users are concerned about their privacy and just how the companies use their personal information.
Larry Greenemeier has a piece in Scientific American discussing the cyber threats facing US critical infrastructure. It includes an interview with CSIS’s James Lewis. Check it out.
Declan McCullagh at cnet’s Privacy Inc. discusses a proposal by the Obama administration on top-level domain naming procedures that would include mandatory review by an ICANN advisory panel, and allow a single nation the potential to veto a domain suffix proposal.
Matthew Lasar at ARS Technica discusses the FCC’s plan to shift the Universal Service Fund away from financing phone service to a plan that subsidizes broadband deployment. Also included is a brief interview with FCC Chairman Genachowski.
ICANN will likely be soliciting applications in the coming months to propose and operate new domain name suffixes. What remains unclear is how these new suffixes will change the contours of the Internet as we currently know it.
Cari Tuna writing at WSJ’s Digits Blog reports that ICANN has distributed the last of the IPv4 Internet addresses to five Regional Internet Registries.
Andy Greenberg at Forbes’ The Firewall discusses Vodafone’s claim that the Egyptian government compelled mobile companies to send government-crafted propaganda over its networks, and that under Egyptian law Vodafone and other providers were required to comply.
Declan McCullagh at cnet’s Privacy Inc. discusses a statement issued by Senators Carper, Collins, and Lieberman, in which they claim their cyber protection legislation will have numerous safeguards to prevent a shutdown similar to that which occurred in Egypt in previous days.
Nate Andersen at ARS Technica reports on Senator Ron Wyden’s tough questions for ICE Director Joe Morton over the domain name seizures conducted by the agency, often without a chance for the domain holder to defend itself.
Marvin Ammori 