The Internet Archive is embracing torrent technology to make thousands of legacy files available to users. The Internet Archive is good at what it does, and with this new distribution strategy, they will reach a much wider audience.

The movement is done in style, and it is extremely appealing for geeks and Internet fans. The EFF has done a wonderful job protecting Internet users, though not many people know about them. The purpose of this league, is to engage more youngsters.

The EFF has launched MegaRetrieval.com with Megaupload’s hosting providers, to help Megaupload users get their legit data back.

If you have rooted or jailbroken your phone, Carrier IQ “Profiles” are exposed and they can be retrieved. This thread on the xda forum tells you how to go about it

The data collection policy of Carrier IQ states ‘triggers’ and ‘metrics’ as two entities. Triggers are events on the phone that users can carry out. Unsurprisingly, the Carrier IQ test UI lists almost all possible events on Android as triggers. In essence, Carrier IQ is a rootkit.