IP addresses

No More Bing Brother, Says Microsoft

John Paczkowski in News on January 19, 2010 at 11:05 am PT

Google has long claimed that the server log data it collects are a critical driver of innovation. Over the years, to appease privacy advocates, the company has tweaked its treatment of those data and the length of time it stores them. Google continues to collect IP addresses, though it makes them anonymous after nine months. This may soon change. And not because of any initiative on Google’s part but because of one by Microsoft.

AT&T Says 4chan Block "In No Way Related to the Content"

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 27, 2009 at 3:54 pm PT

AT&T said Monday that its weekend block of 4chan was due to an attack on one of its customers and not because of the popular site’s content. In a statement, the telecommunications provider said that a business customer, which it declined to name, was the target of a denial-of-service attack on Friday.

Iranians Using Tor to Anonymize Web Use

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 18, 2009 at 9:20 am PT

As the Iranian government continues a cat-and-mouse game of limiting or blocking access to social networking sites, instant messaging, cellphone service and the Internet in general, citizens and onlookers keep developing workarounds to help protesters stay online.