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netizen writes “CircleID is reporting a large-scale DDoS attack affecting all of Network Solutions’ name servers for the past 48 hours, potentially affecting millions of websites and emails around the world hosting their domain names on the company’s servers. The NANOG mailing list indicates that it is due to a very large-scale UDP/53 DDoS which Network Solutions has also confirmed: ‘There is a spike in DNS query volumes that is causing latency for the delay in web sites resolving. This is a result of a DDOS attack. We are taking measures to mitigate the attack and speed up queries.””

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Guantanamo Bay isn’t the only thing on the chopping block. President Barack Obama will close a secret network of CIA prisons immediately.

Gamasutra is running an in-depth look at the regulation of video games in the US and other countries. They discuss the reasons for such legislation, such as child protection and intellectual property restrictions, as well as what gamers can expect to see in the coming years. “Fairfield also points out combinations of laws, which, when put together make for strange outcomes. The biggest of these, for video games, is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. In short, gaining unauthorized access to someone’s computer and doing 0 in damages opens you up for criminal charges. It’s good for prosecuting hackers, but it makes for a strange fit with social networking websites and user-generated content. That fit was especially strange when prosecutors weren’t quite sure how to approach the widely publicized case of Megan Meier. The 13-year-old Meier committed suicide after being deceived and bullied by another girl and her mother, Lori Drew. Unable to find a good way to approach the issue, prosecutors charged Drew under MySpace’s End User License Agreement, effectively giving MySpace the power to dictate criminal law.”

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