Bob Worsley and Other State Lawmakers Propose Online Voting

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To his credit, Republican state Senator Bob Worsley has brought some of that Skymall spirit to the Legislature.

In addition to legalizing self-driving cars, Worsley, the founder of Skymall, is among a group of lawmakers that are also proposing a "pilot program" for using the Internet to vote in elections.

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Kenneth Cyrus Accused of Uploading Child Porn to Facebook

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Kenneth Cyrus -- find him on Facebook.
Kenneth Cyrus may not be the sharpest child-pornography-collecting tool in the shed.

According to police, the married, 36-year-old Phoenix resident uploaded child pornography to Facebook -- ya know, the website where you upload photos for all of your friends to see.

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Go Daddy Sued Already for Last Week's Outage Thanks to "99.9% Uptime Guarantee"

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Scottsdale-based GoDaddy.com was having a rough time last week after it experienced some technical difficulties, which the company had to explain was not due to some sort of "hack," despite claims to the contrary.

Now that everyone's websites are up and running again, the company has been hit with a class-action lawsuit, over its "99.9% uptime guarantee."

See also:
-Go Daddy Says Self-Proclaimed "Anonymous Leader" Didn't Hack Anything


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Go Daddy Says Self-Proclaimed "Anonymous Leader" Didn't Hack Anything

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Hackers: responsible for taking down Jurassic Park, but not GoDaddy.com.
A whole lot of websites hosted by Scottsdale-based GoDaddy.com were inaccessible yesterday, and a self-proclaimed "leader" of the hacking collective Anonymous claimed credit for the outage.

Go Daddy's interim CEO says nobody "hacked" a damn thing, and it was actually the company's fault. (They're sorry about that.)

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Raynaldo Rivera, Alleged LulzSec Hacker, Now Second Valley Man Arrested in Sony Hacking

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See also: Alleged LulzSec Hacker Busted in Phoenix
See also: Arizona Department of Public Safety Hacked by LulzSec

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A second Valley man has been arrested and accused by the feds of hacking into Sony Pictures' computer systems as an alleged member of the hacking group Lulzsec.

Raynaldo Rivera, a 20-year-old Tempe resident, is accused in the same attacks as Cody Kretsinger, the Phoenix man who was arrested by the feds in September, according to the FBI.


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Test PAC Loves the Internet, and May Get Involved in Ben Quayle/David Schweikert Race

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Congressman Ben Quayle could replace Lamar Smith in ads like this.
A mostly online-based political-action committee is considering getting involved in Arizona's Sixth Congressional District primary between Republican Congressmen Ben Quayle and David Schweikert.

Test PAC loves the Internet. Quayle, several of the PAC's members believe, does not.

"Quayle co-sponsored [the Stop Online Piracy Act] before he withdrew his co-sponsorship," Test PAC treasurer Andy Posterick tells New Times. "He then went on to co-sponsor [the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act], and voted for it, and it's one of the only things that separates him from Schweikert."

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Jan Brewer Signs Harassment Bill; Feel Free to Continue Being an A-Hole on the Internet

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Governor Jan Brewer signed signed House Bill 2549 yesterday, an effort to outlaw using electronic devices to harass people.

Thanks to the outrage caused over the initial version of the bill, the revised version signed by the governor allows you to continue acting like an asshole on the Internet.

The first version of the bill would have outlaw the use of electronic or digital devices to "annoy or offend" someone, which didn't sit too well with technology and free-speech advocates.

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Arizona's Online Harassment Bill Passes Legislature; You Can Still "Annoy or Offend" Others on the Internet, to an Extent

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Trolls (above) still are legal on the Internet, for the most part, even if Governor Jan Brewer signs House Bill 2549.
Arizona's House Bill 2549 -- which was derailed after a critic's view that it was a "bill to censor electronic speech" caught on -- has been approved by some legislators after changes were made to address those concerns.

There were a lot of misconceptions about this bill, especially from the Kremlin apologists at Russia Today, who furthered a rumor -- it wasn't even a rumor, it was just wrong -- that the bill in its original form had made it to Governor Jan Brewer's desk.

Either way, State Representative Vic Williams told New Times last month that legislators had received quite a bit of "legitimate concerns" -- and illegitimate concerns -- about the bill, and Representative Ted Vogt has stopped the bill from moving forward so everyone can figure it out.

Legislators apparently figured it out, as the bill passed easily without opposition from the Media Coalition, which led the charge against the bill, mostly for text in the original version that would outlaw the use of electronic or digital devices to "annoy or offend" someone.

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Ben Quayle Delivers Privacy Amendment to Internet Security Bill "CISPA," Passes 410-3

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Less than four hours after Congressman Ben Quayle let New Times know he'd be introducing an amendment to address privacy concerns in the latest controversial Internet-related bill, he did -- and it passed less than an hour ago.

Quayle's amendment to address privacy concerns in the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or "CISPA" passed by a vote of 410-3,  The bill itself passed the House a few minutes ago by a healthy margin.

Quayle is one of the 112 co-sponsors of the bill that has online communities in a tizzy and is being compared to the shelved "SOPA" and "PIPA" bills, which led to outrage on the Internet, with sites shutting down for the day in protest of censorship concerns.

While SOPA was supposed to mainly target intellectual property on the Internet, CISPA allows private companies to share information with the government in the name of perceived "cyber threats" -- which led to the concerns about the broad scope of information about what people are doing online that companies could turn over to the government.

With that concern, Quayle offered his amendment today to attempt to make stricter "limitations on how the government can use the information it collects."

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Ben Quayle Defends Internet Security Bill Known as "CISPA," but Promises Amendment Proposal Over Privacy Concerns

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After the bills known as "SOPA" and "PIPA" were shelved amid some mass protests from online communities, there's a new bill in Congress that has the Internet riled up -- the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or "CISPA."

The bill has been referred to numerous times as being "worse than SOPA," although that's more of an opinion than anything else.

While SOPA was supposed to mainly target intellectual property on the Internet, CISPA allows private companies to share information with the government in the name of perceived "cyber threats."

Congressmen representing all parts of the country have been quizzed on their stance of CISPA, and even the White House has released a statement on the bill, saying "the Administration strongly opposes [the bill] in its current form."

Two of the bill's 112 co-sponsors are gentlemen from Arizona, Congressmen Trent Franks and Ben Quayle.

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