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From a Digg post:

“SEO Black Hats have found a major loophole in the comment preview of the Moveable Type blogging platform. This exploit let’s them insert active links into any post, avoiding the “nofollow” penalty usually associated. This allows them to artificially inflate the importance of spam websites, leading to less accurate search engine results!”

This is really too bad, seeing as their are hundreds, if not thousands, of high-ranking blogs out there based on the Moveable Type platform…

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So, how would you feel if all of your online moves were filtered through FBI wiretaps and filters, looking for any suspicious activity?

The suspicious among us might argue that such is the case already. However, from a recent CNET article, it appears that the FBI is drafting new legislation that would require providers of backbone networking gear to build in ‘backdoors’ for eavesdropping on what is going by.

Now, a small part of me can understand the rationale behind this. The modern day criminal knows that the internet is a fairly viable source for secure communications. If there was no way for law enforcement agencies to tap their communications, all hell could break loose. This is already a requirement for modern telephone routing equipment providers. Why not the Internet equipment providers as well?

What worries me more is the other side of the legislation: The FBI is majorly expanding it’s powers to tap such items as instant messaging, in game chats from video games, and any other source it deems necessary, without so much as yearly notice to the public giving statistics on their tapping habits. In other words, they are expanding their legal power while removing standing measure to increase their accountability.

What can we think about this?

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