As it turns out, Sony has taken another step forward in the George Hotz war — they now have access to the server logs, which includes the IP address of any that has visited the www.geohot.com website which is hosted at Bluehost. According to the Threat Level blog on Wired; “The approved subpoena requires the more »

You don’t even have to be illegally sharing your files to have the gaming firms after you apparently. Just ask Gill and Ken Murdoch.

They’re senior citizens who don’t even play computer games and had never even heard the term “peer-to-peer” until they got a letter in the mail telling them they were being accused of sharing the game Race07 by makers Atari. Their case was eventually dropped, but there are still hundreds of people this is happening to according to a Which? Computing magazine investigation. More details after the break.

Wow, imagine that…privacy issues once again being raised in regard to Google. Shocker. The latest is in reference to issues with the Chrome browser and is addressed in the company’s blog.

The latest word of the day is “anonymize”. That’s apparently what Google plans to do to get rid of user tracks. The Google blog referenced both their Suggest application as well as their sparkly new (cough cough) browser Chrome. Suggest is featured in Google Search, Toolbar, the iPhone…and obviously Chrome. It works like predictive texting. You start to type in a word…it suggests what you might mean to say. Like….you start to type in “stre”, and it might suggest “street view” or “utter lack of privacy” or “you only need to sign off 3,793 papers to get your face off our program”, or “made by the ultimate rulers of all”. I’m just suggesting anyway.