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Digital economics, sharing large files, sharp PDFs

July 13th, 2010 by David Bradley >> No Comments

Tech links accumulated from July 5th onwards, apologies for the delay:

  • Judicial review of the Digital Economy Act – UK Internet service provider TalkTalk is taking the Digital Economy Act to court to prove that its forced passing into English law was illegal. The law intended to protect copyright holders has many critics who suggest it will do nothing but stifle creativity and civil rights.
  • Are you sure you’re logging into your own Wireless router? – In the light of the recent "break-in" at Facebook, in which a senior security engineer asked his staff to hack his account to test the security systems, Tech Crunch reveals a link to a tutorial showing just how easy it is to spoof someone's router login page and to carry out a denial of service attack on the router and trick them to logging into a rogue page instead whereby their system is compromised.
  • How to share large files over the Internet – Did you know you can email files up to 10 gigabytes with the recently revamped Hotmail. That pretty much knocks other email limits for 6(+4), although you do have to split the file into small chunks to send it.
  • PDF reader rendering quality comparison – Which PDF reader is the easiest on the eye? A rendering comparison between Adobe, Nitro, Foxit etc
  • UK rejects ACTA calls to criminalize illicit file-sharing – The UK will not criminalize file sharing despite ACTA and the Digital Economy Act forced through by the last government.
  • Top apps ignore Windows built in security protection – Many applications, such as Picasa, Foxit, and iTunes fail to utilise the inbuilt security systems of the Windows operating system that would otherwise keep many hackers and crackers at bay.