It is with great sadness that we must report that Steve Jobs has passed away. It was not long ago that he stepped down from Apple after a career that anyone could be proud of. Unfortunately, his career was cut short after several battles with different medical issues that forced him to eventually step down as CEO.
The world wide web, the brainchild of Tim Berners-Lee is 20 years old today. The worldwide web isn’t to be confused with the Internet, even though they’re commonly considered the same thing. The Internet, which is the physical infrastructure of servers and the protocols that enable them to interconnect has been around for much longer. The worldwide web (commonly known as WWW or W3) is a set of protocols for displaying and sharing documents across the Internet.
It has been more than half a year since Visa and MasterCard faced DDoS attacks from Anonymous and WikiLeaks supporters for holding back financial donations to the whistleblower organization. In an announcement made earlier today, WikiLeaks and its credit card processing partner, DataCell, plan to take legal action against Visa and MasterCard via a complaint to be lodged with the EU Commission.
The press release accuses the two credit card companies of “engaging in an unlawful, U.S. influenced, financial blockade” that began in December and continues to this day. Wikileaks and DataCell are represented by two law firms, a Danish firm by the name of Bender von Haller Dragested and Reykjavik Law Firm in Iceland.
