VPN Restrictions Are Problematic, App Association Tells U.S. Government
VPNs are valuable tools for people who want to access the Internet securely and with decent privacy. These services are vital for whistleblowers, activists, and citizens rebelling against Government oppression. The latter has become clear once again in recent months, with Iran pulling out all the stops to block VPN services that dare to offer protesters a window to the rest of the world. In response, some of the more serious VPN...
Man Used Stolen Netflix Credentials to Acquire Content For Torrent Site
As part of a campaign against torrent sites in Denmark, local anti-piracy group Rights Alliance (Rettigheds Alliancen) targeted several members-only torrent trackers. Early November 2021, the Public Prosecutor for Special Economic and International Crime (SØIK) announced that six people had been arrested following criminal referrals by Rights Alliance. All were members and/or operators of ShareUniversity and DanishBytes. One of those...
How open source powers innovation
How open source powers innovation Gordon Haff Wed, 11/16/2022 – 03:00 Where do people come together to make cutting-edge invention and innovation happen? The corporate lab One possible answer is the corporate research lab. More long-term focused than most company product development efforts, corporate labs have a long history, going back to Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory in New Jersey. Perhaps most famous is Bell...
How to address challenges with community metrics
How to address challenges with community metrics Georg Link Wed, 11/16/2022 – 03:00 The previous two articles in this series looked at open source community health and the metrics used to understand it. They showed examples of how open source communities have measured at their health through metrics. This final article brings those ideas together, discussing the challenges of implementing community health metrics for your own...
