Archive for 2011/02/28

How to Automatically Download TV Shows as Soon as They’ve Aired (or Turn Your PC into a TiVo)

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://gizmodo.com/#!5772418/how-to-turn-your-computer-into-an-internet-personal-video-recorder

26-year old author is making millions self-publishing through Kindle, selling 100,000 copies of her books each month and keeping 70% of the proceeds

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://gizmodo.com/#!5772384/this-27+year-old-makes-millions-writing-kindle+only-books

China is not only copying consoles, iPhones and Rolexes. They are also in the business of copying web sites

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5772306/china-is-copying-the-web-too/gallery/1

Fake College Copies a Real College’s Website to Steal Money from Students

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5772317/fake-college-copies-a-real-colleges-website-to-steal-money-from-students

Despite congressional criticism, Facebook is planning to resume the aborted rollout of a feature that allowed the optional sharing of addresses and mobile phone numbers

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

No support for U.S. plan for domain name veto

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

The mobile App Internet wags the IT dog

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/forrester/the-mobile-app-internet-wags-the-it-dog/605

Libyans Using Coded Dating Site Messages To Avoid Government Monitoring

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110226/18330013292/libyans-using-coded-dating-site-messages-to-avoid-government-monitoring.shtml

Hollywood Gone Mad: Complaining That Oscar Nominated Films Downloaded More

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110227/22453813297/hollywood-gone-mad-complaining-that-oscar-nominated-films-downloaded-more.shtml

Cross-dressing, occasionally smelly man-child webmaster Julian Assange – catapulted to global fame after publishing colossal amounts of classified-yet-humdrum US government data – has applied for a UK trademark on his own name

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/28/assange_tm/

Millions 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 / Awareness

Thieves apparently broke in to Vodafone’s data centre, which resulted in kit getting damaged

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/28/vodafone_outage/

Cloud-based gaming is again in the limelight today with the announcement that game service Gaikai has gone live in the UK for all to trial

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution, The Cloud

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/02/28/gaikai_cloud_gaming_service_open_beta/

Bank of America is bringing pay-by-tap to the masses, or at least a small trial group of BlackBerry users, by using a removable card and a replacement battery

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/28/bank_of_america_nfc/

Tens of thousands of Gmail users have at least temporarily lost months or years of messages and chat dialogues after Google accidentally reset their accounts

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Google

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/28/gmail_account_deletion_snafu/

The Daily Mail does not have to identify the people behind two anonymously posted comments on its website because to do so would breach their rights to privacy, the High Court has said

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/28/newspaper_anonymous_commenters/

Amazon confirms the terms of its declaration of war on Netflix

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

Amazon 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 Policy

Passing 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 Evolution

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/02/thoughtcrime-the-ethics-of-neuroscience-and-criminality.ars

Republicans: No compromise possible on net neutrality

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Net Neutrality, Public Policy

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/republicans-no-compromise-possible-on-net-neutrality.ars

British government fears increase of litigation as result of anti piracy act

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Copyright, Legislation, Litigation, Public Policy

http://futureofcopyright.com/index.php?page=news&id=1693

Berlusconi in court for copyright fraud

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://futureofcopyright.com/index.php?page=news&id=1697

Tech Security Firm Palantir Wants To Be The Next Facebook Or Google

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution
Billionaire 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

European researchers will introduce the world’s first microprocessor made with organic semiconductors

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/the-plastic-processor

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 / Awareness

just 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 Evolution

http://www.dutchtronics.com/index.cfm?fcPageName=Products&cLanguage=eng

JPMorgan fund eyes 10% stake in Twitter

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/618e0bb4-42a9-11e0-8b34-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1FEahlTTr

Mass phishing on credit card services brand using fake SSL

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

So 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

London Stock Exchange hit by malware – Browsing the site is not a good idea right now

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://www.highseverity.com/2011/02/london-stock-exchange-hit-by-malware.html

Why profit-driven iPad exploits are inevitable

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://lastwatchdog.com/profit-driven-ipad-exploits-inevitable/

Internet Crime Complaint Center 2010 Crime Report

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2010_IC3Report.pdf

Apple shares Mac OS X Lion with security experts

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection

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 / Awareness

More: http://torrentfreak.com/chaos-computer-club-revive-famous-bittorrent-tracker-110228/

A new anarchist group within Anonymous has formed… Introducing Anonymous (A)narchist Action or A(A)A

Posted: 2011/02/28 in Education / Awareness

http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20110227173846854

See also:

Communique from A(A)A. Anon Anarchist Action
http://anarkismo.net/article/18871