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Archive for February, 2011
No support for U.S. plan for domain name veto
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyLibyans Using Coded Dating Site Messages To Avoid Government Monitoring
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / AwarenessMillions of Vodafone customers were disconnected this morning after an overnight break-in. Calls, text and data are intermittent west of London with a fix in progress
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / AwarenessThieves apparently broke in to Vodafone’s data centre, which resulted in kit getting damaged
Amazon confirms the terms of its declaration of war on Netflix
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsAmazon Prime will form the basis of its ‘free’ online video offering
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/27/amazon_declares_war_on_netflix_with_prime/
German data regulators move to tighten IP address laws – Marketers shouldn’t pass on your IP without your OK. Switzerland is also tightening its privacy laws
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyPassing along IP addresses of web visitors to a third party without their permission could become illegal in Germany
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/28/german_data_regulators_want_to_tighten_ip_laws/
Thoughtcrime? The ethics of neuroscience and criminality
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Tech EvolutionRepublicans: No compromise possible on net neutrality
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Net Neutrality, Public PolicyBerlusconi in court for copyright fraud
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, LitigationTech Security Firm Palantir Wants To Be The Next Facebook Or Google
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionBillionaire Facebook investor Peter Thiel told Forbes that the company is the most undervalued in Silicon Valley
More: http://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-technologies-2011-2
Apple Design Guru Considers Move To UK – Jonathan Ive’s desire to move back to the UK could force Apple’s board to make its working policies more flexible
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awarenessjust too valuable to Apple
More: http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/apple-design-guru-considers-move-to-uk-22234
PConTV Windows/Mac is the first device that can show all content of your Windows as well as Mac computers on your TV wirelessly. You can easily control up to 8 computers with your mouse and/or keyboard. You can share any content from your computers with your friends and family in your living room
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionJPMorgan fund eyes 10% stake in Twitter
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsMass phishing on credit card services brand using fake SSL
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionSo what makes this phishing attack stand out from the rest?
Phishing websites that use SSL are uncommon and are typically seen in very small numbers. To create a phishing site that uses SSL, the phisher would either have to create a fake SSL certificate or attack a legitimate certificate to attain an encryption for the site.
More: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/mass-phishing-credit-card-services-brand-using-fake-ssl
Why profit-driven iPad exploits are inevitable
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessInternet Crime Complaint Center 2010 Crime Report
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsApple shares Mac OS X Lion with security experts
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protectionhttp://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20036218-83.html
Previously:
Google Bets $20,000 You Can’t Hack Chrome
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229201164
The famous Denis.Stalker BitTorrent tracker is now hosted on the main domain of the influential hacker organization Chaos Computer Club. One of the main motives of CCC is to strive for “freedom of information,” which fits well with the operation of one of the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / AwarenessA new anarchist group within Anonymous has formed… Introducing Anonymous (A)narchist Action or A(A)A
Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awarenesshttp://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20110227173846854
See also:
Communique from A(A)A. Anon Anarchist Action
http://anarkismo.net/article/18871
A Brief History of Movie Special Effects
Posted: 2011/02/27 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionHow Hollywood Studios Harness Your Brainwaves to Win Oscars
Posted: 2011/02/27 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionA sizable number of neuromarketing companies already brain test movie trailers for the major studios through fMRI, EEG, galvanic skin response, eye-tracking and other biometric approaches. For now, the test data helps the studios and distributors better market the movie.
But what about using brain feedback to help make the movie?
More: http://gizmodo.com/#!5771076/how-hollywood-studios-harness-your-brainwaves-to-win-oscars
