#DataDump: #Mars, Meteorite, Mystery and more

Curiosity Lands Safely on Mars -
"most high-tech interplanetary rover ever built sent a signal to Earth"*

Man will walk on Mars within a generation, says Astronomer Royal*
14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite*
Opening the X-Files in Australia*
Proposed Privacy Law Demands Court Warrants for Cloud Data*
Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping*
Flame and Stuxnet Cousin Targets Lebanese Bank Customers,
Carries Mysterious Payload*
Man Orders TV from Amazon, Gets Assault Rifle*
FTC Dings Google $22.5M in Safari Cookie Flap*
There’s a Good Chance Your Friends Are Phonies*
Satire Video: Facebook users "overestimated"*

#DataDump: Rules, Reality and more

First Newspapers, Now TV: The Internet Reformation Rolls On*
Cisco Home Routers Rule Change Forces Users Onto New Cloud Service with Extreme Rules*
Porn Studios Accused of Screwing Their Fans in BitTorrent Lawsuits*
Kim Dotcom’s Extradition Hearing Postponed to March 2013*
Atari Teenage Riot Goes for the Lulz With Anonymous*
FTC’s $22 Million Privacy Settlement With Google Is Just Puppet Waving*
University of Oregon physicists help discover elusive particle*
Silicon Valley Wary of Reality Series*
Future Shock: Bryan Singer Discusses His New Web Series, 'H+'*

Anonymous Promises Regularly Scheduled Friday Attacks

from threat level: Anonymous, a group not known for discipline, is giving itself a weekly deadline, a new attack every Friday. Following the Tuesday compromise of the website of tear gas maker Combined Systems, Inc., the Antisec wing of Anonymous struck a Federal Trade Commission webserver which hosts three FTC websites, business.ftc.gov, consumer.gov and ncpw.gov, the National Consumer Protection Week partnership website. Claiming this hack in opposition of the controversial international copyright treaty known as ACTA, which had been widely protested around the world for its potential to curtail freedom of expression on the internet, Anonymous continued the political messaging that has marked much of its recent high-profile actions.

12/15 defcon: god's particles, takedown sprees & more

ndaa gives pentagon a green light for cyberwar*

congress authorizes pentagon to wage internet war*
'blueprint for a secure cyber future':
dhs releases cyber strategy framework*
california unveils cyber crime unit*
florida arrests 48 in child computer sex crimes investigation*
cops target climate-sceptic bloggers in three countries*
sopa tweet triggers political explosion, delays vote*
carrier iq meets with feds 'to educate them'*
carrier iq explains secret monitoring software to ftc, fcc*
lockmart delivers gps3 pathfinder satellite to denver on schedule*
judge gives universal music 24 hours to explain takedown spree*
amazon big brother patent knows where you'll go*
'flash gordon' supercomputer powers up in january*
galileo in tune as first navigation signal transmitted to earth*
nearest supernova since 1986 blasts boffin off his chair*
aug24 supernova was a 'white dwarf' star*
dna hackers: synthetic biology weaponized virus, zero-day exploit to infect your brain?*
higgs boson hunters have 'god particle' in their sights*
lhc may have revealed first hints of higgs*
video: boris chertok, russian rocket engineer, dies at 99*