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Anonymous tricked people into joining Web site attacks

If you clicked a link distributed by Anonymous yesterday, you may have unwittingly helped the online activists in their attacks against U.S. government and entertainment industry sites that were organized to protest proposed antipiracy legislation.

Anonymous has launched distributed denial-of-service attacks, designed to shut down Web sites, against government and corporate sites in the past. Typically, supporters download software called Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC) that directs their computer to repeatedly try to connect to a target Web site. So many digital knocks on the door, as it were, can shut a site down so no one can get … Read more

Why Europe is no land of brilliant start-ups

American tech entrepreneurs would rather answer e-mails in the middle of the night than have sex. It is the reverse for Europeans.

At least that seems to be the conclusion of a very stimulating post by the splendidly populist Andrew Keen.

Mr. Keen, who, I am led to understand by the excellent Owen Thomas of Valleywag, is rather enthusiastic for the poor not to have Internet access, relayed a very interesting discussion between Michael Arrington of TechCrunch and Loic LeMeur, the CEO of Seesmic, a video social-networking company.

Apparently, there is a general lamentation in Europe that it has originated … Read more