UK-based ISP TalkTalk, owned by the Carphone warehouse (Phone Warehouse in the EU) has been reprimanded by the Information Commissioner’s Office for failing to disclose enough information about a malware system it was launching, according to the BBC. The controversial system collected the URLs of websites visited by its customers and the ISP failed to [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Digital Economy Act is challenged in UK
The UKs leading Internet service providers, BT and TalkTalk are set to seek a judicial review of the controversial Digital Economy Act, as reported by the BBC. The two ISPs are reported to want the UK’s High Court to clarify the legality of the act prior to it coming into force. The act was one [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Bittorrent client Bitthief spies on users
Bitthief, as the name already implies, is a bittorrent client that leeches from the community without giving something back to it. It basically reminds me of those leecher mods for emule that have been popular a few years ago. Bitthief accomplishes this by reducing the upload speed to 0. The developer of Bitthief, the Distributed Computing Group at ETH Zurich puts it this way: