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Links: FaceBook, Snooping, Consultation, Theora, Treacherous

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Friday 01 August 2008

Logged in or out, Facebook is watching you. (discussed on Slashdot)
A campaign site against "Deep Packet Inspection" - snooping by your ISP.
An EC consultation about European Interoperability Framework (EIF) - they've previously discussed removing their support for open standards and free software, so we should comment on the importance of these things.
Firefox 3.1 looks likely to include Ogg Theora support, which pleases WikiMedia since they use it as their default format.
MS Vista Sp1 won't install if you're dual-booting another operating system - it seems Microsoft has decided to use its monopoly to bully people away from trying alternatives.

See also: Yesterday's links - the archive of my Links posts.

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