Big Players To Spy On IPv6-Enabled Users

"Leading Web content providers -- including Google, Yahoo, Netflix and Microsoft -- are conducting early-stage conversations about creating a shared list of customers who can access their Web sites via IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

"The DNS Whitelist for IPv6 would be a list of IP addresses that have functioning IPv6 connectivity. Content providers would use this shared DNS Whitelist to serve up content to these IP addresses via IPv6 rather than through IPv4, which is the current version of the Internet Protocol. Web site visitors not listed on the DNS Whitelist for IPv6 would receive IPv4-based content...

"Content providers say they need a DNS Whitelist for IPv6 because the Internet has so many broken IPv6 links due to problematic default behavior and incompatibilities in operating systems, home gateways and customer premises equipment. Without a whitelist to help sort out which customers can and cannot receive IPv6 content, Web developers say they will inadvertently block too many customers from accessing their content."

From NetworkWorld...

Big Brother 2.0

"The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.

"U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting.

"Think you know who's behind that `friend` request? Think again. Your new `friend` just might be the FBI..."

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Network Nazis PWN3D!

"When Metzti Bryan tried to check Facebook at work a few months ago, the familiar white and blue layout of the social networking website didn’t load. Instead, she was taken to a page with a stern message: `This site is prohibited.`

"In the weeks that followed, other sites were added to the blocked list: Twitter, PerezHilton.com and even the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s website.

"Her co-workers were not pleased.

"`There was a big uproar,` said Ms. Bryan, 27.

"But soon after, tempers cooled. It turned out that getting around the restrictions was easy..."

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