Archive for 2011/12/30

USC Film Students Practice Artistic Craft Through Games

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/usc-film-students-practice-artistic-craft-through-games/

First Siri, Now Threat Detection: Inside SRI’s Amazing R&D

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/sri-threat-detection/

An authorized reseller in France has filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging unfair competition, mirroring complaints by United States resellers that Apple favors its own retail stores over resellers when it ships new products

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://www.ifoapplestore.com/db/2011/12/29/france-reseller-files-complaint-unfair-competition/

Korea sets the standard for government datacenters

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/datacenter/korea-sets-the-standard-for-government-datacenters/1161

Technology failure rule No. 1 is that when everything hits the fan you need to outline how a project went wrong and what’s being done to fix it. For good measure, outages should include an apology

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/verizon-explains-4g-outages-parsing-the-it-failure-transparency/65968

China’s ten major search engines have agreed to put banks’ official homepages at the top of search results for related queries in a move to curb cyber scams, according to a statement from the Ministry of Public Security

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public Policy

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2011-12/30/content_14358669.htm

Can A Company Keep An Employee’s LinkedIn Account After They’re No Longer Employed?

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111229/03500917224/can-company-keep-employees-linkedin-account-after-theyre-no-longer-employed.shtml

Some 150 officers from forces south of the Scottish border have been disciplined for their antics on Facebook in the past four years

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/30/police_facebook_misdeeds/

New Chinese space plans are all about security and strategy on Earth

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness

Nothing much to do with manned or deep space exploring

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/30/chinese_space_white_paper/

Dutch Intelligence Agencies May Be Allowed To Intercept And Filter Online Data Indiscriminately

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

This is already common practice in the U.S.

Dutch language news article:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/79060/veiligheidsdiensten-krijgen-mogelijk-meer-aftapbevoegdheden.html

Website TheTVDB.com hacked – 58,000 usernames and passwords retrieved – 8,000 API accounts compromised

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

Dutch language news article:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/79057/hacker-kraakt-thetvdb-punt-com.html

The Electric Frontier Foundation has won its appeal to continue a case into massive warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency using facilities within commercial exchanges

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Litigation, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/30/eff_appeal_nsa_spying/

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab are claiming to have found proof that the writers of the Stuxnet and Duqu malware are one and the same

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

and are warning of at least three new families of advanced malware potentially in circulation

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/30/kaspersky_stuxnet_duqu_link/

US deploys 1.8 gigapixel helicopter surveillance drones to Afghanistan

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/29/boeing_hummingbird_helicopter_drone_afghanistan/

Words are powerful. They can move listeners or readers to action, sometimes even to harm themselves or someone else. But generally, our society doesn’t punish the speaker or writer

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111224/01191817188/when-does-speech-go-legal-to-lethal.shtml

Lamar Smith, Against Regulating The Internet… Until Hollywood Became His Biggest Campaign Funder

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111229/11200817228/lamar-smith-against-regulating-internet-until-hollywood-became-his-biggest-campaign-funder.shtml

Dutch Police Chief Martin Sitalsing Worked With Israel Based Security Vendor Athena To Scan Public Information For ‘Anomalies’

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, New Business Models

“By collecting the right information one can change people’s mind in a timely fashion and thwart criminals”

Sitalsing makes a plea for putting more internet investigators to work at Dutch law enforcement agencies

Dutch language news article:
http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/3098682/2011/12/29/Investeer-minder-in-blauw-op-straat-en-meer-in-internetrechercheurs.dhtml

See also:
http://www.athenaiss.com/

 

Tech culture has strong relationships with disorders and illnesses related to acute stress, depression, autism, and the tragedy of suicide

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness

Tech culture is also no stranger to accusations among its ranks of both borderline and narcissistic personality disorders.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/techs-relationship-with-depression-suicide-and-aspergers/904

Chaos Computer Club Hackers Take Down Hundreds Of Nazi Websites – Act Where Governments Refuse To

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness

Secret operation launched during nightly sessions at 28C3 conference in Berlin

Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/tech/2704236/hackers-halen-honderden-nazi-sites-offline.html

Verizon’s going to start charging a $2 ‘convenience fee’ for paying your bill online or by phone starting January 15th

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://gizmodo.com/5871940/verizon-is-going-to-charge-you-extra-to-pay-your-bill-online

100 Years Later: The Evolution of the NYC Subway Map

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/5871896/100-years-later-the-evolution-of-the-nyc-subway-map

Here’s the letter Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd didn’t want you to see

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness

The eight-page letter, which was the subject of much contention, was written to Hurd by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred on behalf of Jodie Fisher, a former salesperson and one-time actress who accused the HP chief of trying to initiate an affair over a two-year period.

Hurd, who is married, is now president at Oracle.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57350022-92/heres-the-letter-mark-hurd-didnt-want-you-to-see/

Dying teen’s final video goes viral

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness

Shortly before Christmas, teenager Ben Breedlove, creator of the YouTube channel BreedloveTV, posted a two-part video about his lifelong heart condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It was the high school senior’s most serious video and would prove to be his last.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-57349879-247/dying-teens-final-video-goes-viral/

GoDaddy bows to boycott, now ‘opposes’ SOPA copyright bill

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Legislation

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57349913-281/godaddy-bows-to-boycott-now-opposes-sopa-copyright-bill/

How Atari games showed me the power of a child’s imagination

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/12/how-atari-games-showed-me-the-power-of-childrens-imagination.ars

Maybe Apple’s Newsstand Really Was a Present for Publishers

Posted: 2011/12/30 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports

http://allthingsd.com/20111223/maybe-apples-newsstand-really-was-a-present-for-publishers/