Declan McCullagh / CNET:Hawaii may keep track of all Web sites visited — Hawaii’s legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site that their customers visit. — John Mizuno, a Democratic state legislator in Hawaii … Read article
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:Microsoft says botnet kingpin worked for antivirus vendor — Four months after dismantling the nasty Kelihos botnet, Microsoft says it has tracked down the central figure behind it- naming Russian citizen Andrey N. Sabelnikov as a new defendant in its civil case over the botnet. Read article
Michael Geist Blog:The Behind-the-Scenes Campaign To Bring SOPA To Canada — The Internet battle against SOPA and PIPA generated huge interest in Canada with many Canadians turning their sites dark (including Blogging Tories, Project Gutenberg Canada, and CIPPIC) in support of the protest. Read article
David Kushner / GQ:The Hacker is Watching — Every online scam begins more or less the same—a random e-mail, a sketchy attachment. But every so often, a new type of hacker comes along. Someone who rewrites the rules, not just the code. He secretly burrows his way into your hard drive, then into your life. [...]
Agence France Presse:‘Anonymous’ hackers attack Polish state website — WARSAW — Hackers identifying themselves as the “Polish Underground” took down the Polish government website early on Monday, the most recent in a series of attacks protesting against anti-piracy legislation. Read article
Austin Carr / Fast Company:Inside Megaupload’s Megamind: Kim Dotcom’s Playboy Bunnies, Russian Nuclear Vessels, And Private War On Terror — In the Wild, Wild West-era of digital media, there is no cowboy quite like Kim Dotcom. Part Sean Parker, part Kevin Mitnick, with a whiff of Notorious B.I.G. … Read article
Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters:Megaupload site wants assets back, to fight charges — (Reuters) – The Internet website Megaupload.com, shut down by U.S. authorities over allegations that it illegally peddled copyrighted material, is trying to recover its servers and get back online, a lawyer for the company said on Friday. Read article
Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters:Megaupload site wants assets back, to fight charges — (Reuters) – The Internet website Megaupload.com, shut down by authorities over allegations that it illegally peddled copyrighted material, is trying to recover its servers and get back online, a lawyer for the company said on Friday. Read article
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:The Great and Powerful Reddit — How the site went from a second-tier aggregator to the Web’s unstoppable force. — Of all the sites that went dark on Wednesday to protest Congress’ misguided anti-piracy legislation, Reddit was the one I missed most. Sure, there were a couple times … Read article