Wikipedia Sues NSA for Mass Internet Surveillance
Wikipedia is suing the NSA over surveillance programs that involve tapping internet traffic en masse from communications infrastructure in the U.S. in order to search it for intelligence purposes. The lawsuit argues that this broad surveillance, revealed in documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, violates the First Amendment by chilling speech and the […]
HTTP/2: New infrastructure for the internet is ready, and could speed up the web for everyone
HTTP/2, a new version of the protocol that lets computers download information from the internet, has been formally approved and could speed up the web for everyone. The group behind the protocol announced this morning that work on the specification is done, and that it will now be checked over and published. It is […]
DDoS attacks spread to vulnerable IPv6 Internet
The next-gen Internet, still immature, is now a pathway for Net attacks, a study finds. Also, ideology has become the primary reason for DDoS attacks. The idyllic byways of the next-era IPv6 internet now suffer an illness up to now limited to the mainstream IPv4 web: distributed denial-of-provider assaults. And worse, the still-immature IPv6 network […]