Archive for 2011/08/19

Finally, writer-director Guy Moshe’s stylized fantasy-actioner BUNRAKU is ready for release on VOD September 1, 2011 and theatrically September 30

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.kungfucinema.com/trailer-and-release-date-for-bunraku-18347

German Data Protection Authority not happy with Facebook’s “Like”-button. Profiling non-subscribers not allowed in Germany nor EU

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

Advises not to create a Facebook account. Calls on internet users to not just go and click on each and every social network plug-in.

Dutch language article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2593820/duitse-privacywaakhond-like-knop.html

Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Maxime Verhagen: Use of Deep Packet Inspection technology by Dutch Telcos is OK. Says it can be used for evil, or good purposes. When does QoS equal eavesdropping?

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

Dutch Data Protection Authority still investigating. Dutch Telecom Regulator has paused its investigation and will resume after the Data Protection Authority has reported its findings.

It’s already clear that Dutch Telco KPN used DPI for more than only the “processing of e-mail traffic.” KPN is believed to have extracted URLs and IMSI data for “marketing purposes” and has analyzed the correlation between the use of software applications by its subscribers (generally) and the effect on bandwidth resources (generally). Parties involved are revisiting the definition of “data interception” and “eavesdropping” in light of DPI and Quality of Service management.

Dutch language article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/107654/verhagen-laat-gebruik-dpi-door-telco-s-toe—update.html 

BT Targets FREE WiFi Wireless Internet Coverage for 300 UK Pubs by Late 2012

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/08/19/bt-targets-free-wifi-wireless-internet-coverage-for-300-uk-pubs-by-late-2012.html

RIAA has filed a declaration at a federal court in California to obtain the personal details of one of YouTube’s users

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation

http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-targets-youtube-over-leaked-britney-spears-concert-110819/

GE just made a huge investment in IT with its own state-of-the-art data center that will power American manufacturing

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/what-cloud-ge-builds-its-own-world-class-data-center/55469

Advertising space — through sponsored stories and adverts — will regain prominent focus for Facebook users, in a bid to boost overall revenue

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Online advertising

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/new-facebook-layout-starts-rolling-out-whats-new/12316

UK Lib Dems want pirate-friendly, one-speed net – ‘Yarr! Vote for Black Julian, me mateys’

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/19/libdem_policy_proposal_pirate_friendly/

Sky Movies too expensive, says Competition Commission

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/19/sky_paymovies_competition_commission/

Brits buy more e-books than other Euro readers

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/08/19/britons_spend_more_on_ebooks_than_other_europeans/

The European Union is objecting to Western Digital’s proposed purchase of Hitachi GST on antitrust grounds

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/19/eu_objects_wd_hgst/

EFF: No court has ever found that anyone is liable simply because another user of his or her open wifi committed some legal wrong

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence, Legislation

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/open-wifi-and-copyright-liability-setting-record

Kevin Mitnick: “If you use a free email service, I highly recommend Google because they have two-step authentication”

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/16/kevin-mitnick-hacker-book_n_928107.html

Microsoft admits use of SuperCookies

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

http://blogs.technet.com/b/privacyimperative/archive/2011/08/19/update-on-the-issue-of-supercookies-used-on-msn.aspx

“RSA employee” leaking list containing Advanced Persistent Threat IP addresses

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection

Dutch language article:
http://www.security.nl/artikel/38192/1/%27RSA_werknemer%27_lekt_lijst_met_APT_IP-adressen.html

Exclusive: How the FBI investigates the hacktivities of Anonymous

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/exclusive-how-the-fbi-investigates-the-activities-of-anonymous.ars

Crank who targeted science writers lured into threatening police

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/crank-who-targeted-science-writers-lured-into-threatening-police.ars

Glenn Steven Mangham repeatedly tried to hack into Facebook. He has been banned from going on the Internet until further notice

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/british-student-accused-of-trying-to-hack-into-facebook/2801

Red Hat CEO thinks the desktop is becoming a legacy application

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/red-hat-ceo-thinks-the-desktop-is-becoming-a-legacy-application/9434

HP acquiring Autonomy – is this HP’s IBM moment?

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/howlett/hp-acquiring-autonomy-is-this-hps-ibm-moment/3340

Rich individuals in the US are increasingly joining Facebook. The percentage of US millionaires using the world’s largest social network has nearly doubled from 26 percent in November 2010 to 46 percent in June 2011

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/the-rich-flock-to-facebook-dont-bother-with-twitter/2813

Mac OS X Lion introduces the next-generation of FileVault, Apple’s built-in encryption technology. Version 2 expands encryption from the user’s home directory to the entire disk. That’s a huge change

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Tech Evolution

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/filevault-2-transition-considerations/10924

Virgin Galactic’s Passengers Will Be Able to Tweet, Facebook and Instagram from Space

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://gizmodo.com/5832318/virgin-galactics-passengers-will-be-able-to-tweet-facebook-and-instagram-from-space

Paris Airport Gets Holographic Boarding Agents

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

Now, these agents aren’t the free-standing “Obi-Wan, You’re My Only Hope” sort of holograms we’ve been promised since the ’70s

http://gizmodo.com/5832303/paris-airport-gets-holographic-boarding-agents

There Are One Billion Cars Roaming The Streets. Some predict we will have 2.5 billion cars by 2050. That’s a lot of smog, traffic and parking problems

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://gizmodo.com/5832453/there-are-one-billion-cars-roaming-the-streets

Kaspersky criticizing McAfee over Shady Rat

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports

http://eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/08/18/shady-rat-shoddy-rat/

The information architect’s role is essentially is to harmonize all manner of information and make sure it’s properly managed and accessible to the people who are authorized to see it

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gardner/why-data-and-information-management-remain-elusive-after-decades-of-deployments-and-how-to-fix-it/4304

20% of Facebook users will click on everything they come across. Men worse than women

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports

http://www.security.nl/artikel/38184/1/20%25_Facebook-gebruikers_is_%27klikvee%27.html

A judge has gutted a lawsuit that accused companies including Microsoft, McDonald’s, and advertising network Interclick of fraud for the use of code that tracked the browsing history of website visitors, because: there wasn’t an injury that could be quantified in monetary amounts required by the statutes

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/18/cookie_respawning_suit_dismissal/

An Australian Senate committee has recommended that law enforcement authorities should only hand information to agencies from other countries if those countries have privacy protection that matches our own

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Legislation, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/18/cybercrime_amendment_needs_amendments/

The first ever 3D video shot in space

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/19/3d_iss_vid/

World’s first 3D, HD video recording, digital ‘Star Wars style’ binoculars

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/08/19/sony_launches_digital_binoculars/

As of 1st January 2012, airliner KLM has to proactively share passenger details with Dutch Customs

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/107645/klm-moet-passagiergegevens-verplicht-afstaan-.html

In Silicon Valley, a retail store as product laboratory

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20094442-52/in-silicon-valley-a-retail-store-as-product-laboratory/

Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis by NASA

Posted: 2011/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1104.4462v2

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