20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them – LBRY

Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000 college lectures from its YouTube channel. Berkeley removed the videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another university under the Americans with Disabilities Act. We copied all 20,000 and are making them permanently available for free via LBRY. This makes the videos Read more about 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them – LBRY[…]

Web security products introduce man in the middle insecurities

Your antivirus and network protection efforts may actually be undermining network security, a new paper and subsequent US-CERT advisory have warned. The issue comes with the use of HTTPS interception middleboxes and network monitoring products. They are extremely common and are used to check that nothing untoward is going on. However, the very method by Read more about Web security products introduce man in the middle insecurities[…]

WikiLeaks will disclose CIA vulns to companies that sign standard responsible disclosures – or maybe not so standard?

“WikiLeaks has made initial contact with us via secure@microsoft.com,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Motherboard — but then things apparently stalled. An anonymous reader quotes Fortune: Wikileaks this week contacted major tech companies including Apple and Google, and required them to assent to a set of conditions before receiving leaked information about security “zero days” and Read more about WikiLeaks will disclose CIA vulns to companies that sign standard responsible disclosures – or maybe not so standard?[…]