Archive for 2011/08/10

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/10/gprs_cellphone_call_snooping/

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110809/03492415447/court-says-sending-too-many-emails-to-someone-is-computer-hacking.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWPqcWt8Es

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110809/03313015446/when-everything-youve-ever-said-can-will-be-used-against-you-anyone-forever.shtml

http://gizmodo.com/5829348/youtube-adds-20000-licensed-movie-clips-to-its-library

http://gizmodo.com/5829263/california-booting-inmates-off-facebook

http://gizmodo.com/5829311/facebook-for-iphone-and-android-will-this-really-kill-sms

http://gizmodo.com/5829437/amazon-bypasses-apples-new-ios-rules-with-kindle-cloud-reader/gallery/1?preview=0

http://gizmodo.com/5829463/striking-verizon-workers-destroying-internet-cables

  • Teenagers who use Facebook more often show narcissistic tendencies while young adults who have a strong Facebook presence show more signs of other psychological disorders, including antisocial behaviors, mania, and aggressive tendencies.
  • Daily overuse of media and technology has a negative effect on the health of all children, preteens, and teenagers by making them more prone to anxiety, depression, and other psychological disorders, as well as by making them more susceptible to future health problems.
  • Facebook can be distracting and can negatively impact learning. Studies found that middle school, high school, and college students who checked Facebook at least once during a 15-minute study period achieved lower grades.

Disney’s approach to content deals reflects the lessons from the Netflix –Starz deal. In 2008, Netflix cut a deal with Starz to distribute video for roughly $30 million a year. Netflix and Starz are currently negotiating a new deal that will feature a price tag anywhere from $200 million to $350 million

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/disney-chief-iger-digital-evolving-too-fast-for-long-term-content-deals/54568

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/08/10/ofcom-uk-considers-forcing-bt-to-offer-a-dark-fibre-broadband-product.html


Blast from the past: 
Google wants ‘dark fiber’
If Google were to build its own global or national fiber network, the project would likely cost billions of dollars and take years to implement, an investment that would be hard to justify based on the networking needs of most companies. Renting “lit” fiber from carriers is generally a cheaper, and therefore preferred, way to go. Google is thought to be a shrewd judge of computing value, having built its widely admired infrastructure on the back of low-budget server clusters. At the same time, curious geeks have long pondered the apparent mismatch between its service demands and the reputed scale of its computing resources.
http://news.cnet.com/Google-wants-dark-fiber/2100-1034_3-5537392.html

and:

What’s Google Doing With All That Dark Fiber?
Google head of special initiatives Eric Sacca has said the fiber helps Google avoid long-haul transport costs for traffic that needs to get to, say, peering points that connect to the AT&T network. Google also uses formerly dark fiber to interconnect its massive data centers and perform mundane tasks like replicating its search index to Google sites worldwide. One Google observer who has also worked with the company thinks the Official Story is also the most likely, since Google historically tries to build and operate its own, self-contained infrastructure.

http://www.voip-news.com/feature/google-dark-fiber-050707/

and:

Google’s Dark Fiber and City Light Up + Verizon’s FiOS Technology = Domination Game
http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2010/08/googles-dark-fiber-and-city-light-up-verizons-fios-technology-domination-game.html 

and:

Google, Facebook Want Better Developing Market Capacity
http://dark-fiber.tmcnet.com/topics/infrastructure-builders/articles/136273-google-facebook-want-better-developing-market-capacity.htm 

and:

Google secret weapon that has not been activated

Despite its dark fiber that is very much in the world, according to inside information, google did not turn on the dark fiber. If Google activate it then Google will be able to monopolize all Internet traffic, even farther than that. With growing technology and bandwidth needs are greater then the Internet service provider (ISP) will struggle to meet the increasing demands of bandwidth.

For example, the current movie download site providers increasingly scattered on the internet, as well as streaming online television and video, and download songs / mp3.

To meet all these needs are clearly needed a massive increase in bandwidth. This can be done with the implementation of the Dark Fiber which has a speed of 8000 Gigabytes / hour.

When ISPs reach their capacity, they have no choice but to have recourse to Google. With dark fiber has, google will solve all the world is limited bandwidth.

In fact, Google would not only monopolize the Internet traffic, with dark fiber, then Google will be a telephone company, cable company, stereo systems and digital video recorder to house all of us. It is very possible. And Google will rule the world.

Then when google will activate its Dark Fiber? We will never know. So be prepared if one day our lives are associated with the technology will rely heavily on Google.
http://overin.com/2011/07/20/google-secret-weapon-that-has-not-been-activated/ 

Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world. Some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/anonymous-vows-destruction-of-facebook-on-guy-fawkes-day/601

According to Doe 2,057 one of his neighbors must have used his open WiFi connection to grab the file.

http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-lawyers-accuse-blind-man-of-downloading-porn-110809/