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In 2015, promising surveillance cases ran into legal brick walls

Attorneys everywhere are calling things moot after the phone metadata program ended.

Today, the first Snowden disclosures in 2013 feel like a distant memory. The public perception of surveillance has changed dramatically since and, likewise, the battle to shape the legality and logistics of such snooping is continually evolving.

To us, 2015 appeared to be the year where major change would happen whether pro- or anti-surveillance. Experts felt a shift was equally imminent. "I think it's impossible to tell which case will be the one that does it, but I believe that, ultimately, the Supreme Court will have to step in and decide the constitutionality of some of the NSA's practices," Mark Rumold, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Ars last year.

The presumed movement would all start with a lawsuit filed by veteran conservative activist Larry Klayman. Filed the day after the initial Snowden disclosures, his lawsuit would essentially put a stop to unchecked NSA surveillance. In January 2015, he remained the only plaintiff whose case had won when fighting for privacy against the newly understood government monitoring. (Of course, it was a victory in name only—the judicial order in Klayman was stayed pending the government’s appeal at the time).

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Pirate Zeitgeist: What People Searched for in 2015

Popular torrent sites get millions of visitors every day, but what have all of those people been searching for? Today we present the BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2015, a list of the top 50 most searched for phrases and keywords on one of the most-used public BitTorrent indexes during the past year.

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

2015-top-torrent-sites During December, all self-respecting search engines produce an overview of the most popular search terms of the past year.

These lists give insight into recent trends, and in 2015 Lamar Odom, Paris and American Sniper were among the top trending searches on Google.

But what about torrent search engines? With billions of searches every year it’s worth taking a look at the most-entered keywords on the dominant file-sharing network.

A few years ago we started the ‘Pirate zeitgeist’ tradition with help from one of the largest torrent sites around. Based on a sample of hundreds of millions of searches, this list should give a decent overview of what people are looking for.

2015’s number one query is the same as last year’s, YIFY the name of the popular movie release group which was forced to shut down in October after a legal threat. This means that its popularity is expected to fade in the new year.

In second place we find NeZu, another popular movie release group that made it into the top 50 for the second year. Interestingly, NeZu’s releases are not wildly popular, which might suggest that this high ranking may have been boosted somehow.

The term 2015, often used to find recent movies, comes in third place, followed by Hindi. Other movie related terms such as 1080p, YIFY 720p and YIFY 1080p show that users are increasingly looking for high quality video.

The first content related search query is Game of Thrones in seventh place. Other popular TV searches are The Walking Dead and The Big Bang Theory taking 10th and 16th place respectively.

Movies also remain popular with Star Wars in 27th, Fifty Shades of Grey in 29th and Interstellar in 32nd place. Perhaps surprisingly, there are no searches related to music titles in the top 50. The only music related terms are Discography in 11th place and Flac in 26th.

Finally, various regional searches also remain popular, as they are often used to find localized releases. The terms Hindi, French, Tamil, Telugu, Ita and NL all have a spot in the top 20.

Below is the full list of the 50 most-entered search queries on one of the most popular torrent sites on the Internet.

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1. yify
2. nezu
3. 2015
4. hindi
5. 1080p
6. yify 720p
7. game of thrones
8. yify 1080p
9. ripsalot
10. the walking dead
11. 3d
12. french
13. discography
14. tamil
15. 2014
16. the big bang theory
17. telugu
18. ita
19. hindi 2015
20. nl
21. malayalam
22. android
23. the flash
24. movies
25. arrow
26. flac
27. star wars
28. the blacklist
29. fifty shades of grey
30. gotham
31. walking dead
32. interstellar
33. batman
34. mac
35. insurgent
36. wwe
37. telugu 2015
38. mad max
39. fast and furious 7
40. jurassic world
41. avengers
42. sword coast legend
43. american sniper
44. gta v
45. dual audio hindi
46. vikings
47. lynda
48. apk
49. avengers age of ultron
50. ettv

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

Chuwi Hi12 dual OS tablet with a 1440p screen coming soon

Chuwi is developing a new tablet with a 12 inch, 2160 x 1440 pixel display, an Intel Cherry Trail processor and 4GB of RAM. The Chuwi Hi12 should be available in January. The tablet is powered by an Intel Atom x5-Z8300 processor, but while the Chuwi Hi12 uses Intel’s cheapest, lowest-power Cherry Trail processor, the rest of the […]

Chuwi Hi12 dual OS tablet with a 1440p screen coming soon is a post from: Liliputing

Ed25519: Mehrfach genutzte SSH-Keys auf Hetzner-Servern

Auf den Installationsimages für Server der Firma Hetzner fanden sich für mehrere Monate vorinstallierte SSH-Keys. Die betroffenen Server sind somit für Man-in-the-Middle-Angriffe anfällig. (OpenSSH, Netzwerk)

Space for Europe and for all humankind: A brief history of the ESA

From ESRO to Rosetta, the unheralded organization’s contributions go far beyond Europe.

Rosetta's lander, Philae, is imaged shortly following its deployment in November 2014. Philae became the first-ever spacecraft to soft-land upon a comet's surface. (credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA)

In November 2014, a strange-looking little spider of a spacecraft caught the world's attention. It may have been one of the oddest-looking pioneers of all time, resembling a mini-refrigerator attached to an insect's legs. The spacecraft, christened Philae, electrified both die-hard space fans and casual observers despite its alien appearance. It made the first-ever soft landing on the face of a comet.

Philae actually made soft landings, as it “bounced” twice on the comet's surface after its landing harpoons did not deploy as planned. Eventually it settled down in its final resting spot, a craggy, dark region called Abydos. Here it delivered another surprise when it “reawakened” seven months after a lack of solar power put it into hibernation.

For some, one of the largest surprises was the identity of people who built Philae and the Rosetta orbiter that delivered it to the comet. While those casually in touch with space news focused on the mission's dramatic twists and turns, dedicated space-watchers recognized it as a historic mission for one oft-overlooked group—the European Space Agency (ESA).

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5 inch OnePlus smartphone with Snapdragon 810 on the way?

Chinese smartphone startup has released three phones to date, but there’s some evidence that a fourth (and maybe fifth) is on the way. Earlier this month benchmark results for a 4.6 inch phone with 4GB of RAM and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor showed up online. Now there’s also a listing at Chinese regulatory agency […]

5 inch OnePlus smartphone with Snapdragon 810 on the way? is a post from: Liliputing

Ars’ favorite science images of 2015

It’s been an amazing year for science, and here are some images that capture it.

Science is an inherently visual activity. Yes, we can know about all sorts of things in the abstract and try to envision them in our minds. But it's one thing to hear a description of the developing brain, and another thing entirely to see one as it's developing. In some cases, images tell us things that it was simply impossible to know otherwise.

2015's science came with its own host of images, some of them taken by the scientists and engineers involved, others we managed to take ourselves. So, we put together a gallery of some of our favorites from this past year; what follows is a little bit on why we liked them.

NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

A close up showing the jagged peaks of Norgay Montes, some of which reach 3,500m. The late evening sunlight captures just how rugged this terrain is.

16 more images in gallery

New worlds: Pluto is too small to have much heat left over from its formation, so the expectations were that we'd see little more than a crater-ridden landscape. Pluto is anything but, and the images have left scientists scrambling to explain a landscape with complex geology. Similar things are true about another dwarf planet, the largest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Here, the surface was a crater-scarred landscape, but it contained enigmatic bright spots that continued to grab everyone's attention as the Dawn probe moved closer.

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Jailbreak: Linux und Pokémon auf der Playstation 4

Die bekannte Hackergruppe Fail0verflow hat es geschafft, auf der Playstation 4 sowohl Linux als auch – per Emulation – eine ältere Version von Pokémon auszuführen. (Playstation 4, Sony)

Die bekannte Hackergruppe Fail0verflow hat es geschafft, auf der Playstation 4 sowohl Linux als auch - per Emulation - eine ältere Version von Pokémon auszuführen. (Playstation 4, Sony)

Stromnetz: Wie man einen Blackout herbeiführen kann

Böse Hacker manipulieren per Knopfdruck das Stromnetz und ganz Europa sitzt im Dunklen? Ganz so einfach ist es nicht, wie ein Vortrag auf dem 32C3 zeigt. Doch es gibt Risiken, ein Blackout ist möglich. (32C3, SQL)

Axanar: Paramount und CBS verklagen Macher von Star-Trek-Fanfilm

Der Grad an Professionalität scheint zu hoch gewesen zu sein: Die Rechteinhaber von Star Trek verklagen die Macher von Axanar, einem Fanfilm, der im Star-Trek-Universum spielt. Dessen Produktionsteam hofft weiter auf eine gütige Einigung. (Star Trek, Urheberrecht)