An ex-Facebook engineer who worked at the company for four years explains why this is
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/why-facebook-doesnt-have-or-need-testers/7191
Archive for 2012/01/11
Facebook doesn’t have testers and doesn’t need to produce particularly high-quality software
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsBlame the Internet: London’s burglars won’t even steal CDs, DVDs
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Education / Awareness, EnforcementAnonymous Launched DOS Attack Against The Wrong BREIN
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Education / Awareness, Network SecurityAs retaliation in relation to the Pirate Bay site blocking verdict, Anonymous called for a Denial Of Service attack against BREIN’s website. This Anonymous branch clearly did not master the Dutch language as they targeted the wrong company, in this case an IT company carrying the same name.
Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/109169/anonymous-pakt-verkeerde-brein-aan.html
See also:
BREIN Labels Anonymous ‘Stupid Internet Vandals’ And Is Fine With Them ‘Shooting Into Thin Air’
Anonymous targeted the wrong BREIN and the current victim now wants BREIN to change its name.
‘Stichting BREIN’ (anti-piracy organization), using domain name http://www.anti-piracy.nl has been established in 1998
‘Brein’ (IT company), using domain name http://www.brein.nl has been established in 1996
Every time BREIN wins a court case, Brein’s faxes and phones get flooded.
Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/109187/geplaagd-ict-bedrijf–brein-moet-naam-veranderen.html
BREIN: We Will Ask All The Dutch Providers To Block The Pirate Bay For The Entire Country As Soon As Possible
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, JurisprudenceThe other providers are currently studying the verdict that requires ISPs XS4ALL and ZIGGO to block The Pirate Bay
Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/109164/brein–pirate-bay-snel-helemaal-op-zwart.html
Dutch Judge: The Amount Of Legal Offering On The Pirate Bay Website Is Only Marginal
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, JurisprudenceSo the fact that some legitimate Dutch downloaders will be negatively affected by the Pirate Bay blockade doesn’t way up against the advantages for rights owners
Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/109160/ziggo-en-xs4all-moeten-the-pirate-bay-blokkeren.html
ZIGGO: We Are Against Piracy, But Fighting Piracy Is A Matter For The Justice Department
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, JurisprudenceInternet provider ZIGGO comments on the Pirate Bay site blocking verdict in The Netherlands. Says that hardened pirates can easily circumvent blocking measures and has doubts about the technical feasibility of site blocking
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2712926/xs4all-in-hoger-beroep-blokkade-the-pirate-bay.html
XS4ALL: Piracy Is Indeed A Problem, But This Is A Matter Of Principle. This Verdict Constitutes Censorship And That Is Not Allowed In Civilized Countries
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, JurisprudenceInternet provider XS4ALL comments on the site blocking requirement imposed by a Dutch judge. It will appeal the verdict
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2712926/xs4all-in-hoger-beroep-blokkade-the-pirate-bay.html
Court deciding that anyone seeding certain image files on BitTorrent within its jurisdiction would be committing an offense
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Privacy / Data ProtectionAs far as we are aware, this is the first case of its type where BitTorrent users are expressly forbidden by a court injunction from sharing specific material. But the big question remains – has it been successful?
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-seeders-harrass-victim-high-court-rules-120511/
China’s Internet users breach half billion mark
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsThe Internet penetration rate stood at 37.7 percent, up 3.4 percent over the end of 2010
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/11/us-china-internet-idUSTRE80A0LD20120111
Dutch National Police To Use CY-Humint Technology To Monitor Public Source Information Online
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Tech EvolutionSays it will go and scan for ‘suspicious information.’ The technology has been developed by Athena GS3 Security Implementations in Israel, per request of the Mossad.
It will scan blogs, microblogs, websites, fora, chatrooms and social networks such as Facebook, Hyves and Twitter. It will analyze the use and exchange of IP addresses and combine the information retrieved with information found elsewhere and also offline.
The company Ordina is guiding the implementation.
Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/109156/politie-scant-sociale-media-op–verdachte-info-.html
BREIN Wins Case Against Dutch Providers XS4ALL And ZIGGO: The Pirate Bay Has To Be Blocked In The Netherlands
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, JurisprudenceBREIN is also allowed to submit any IP addresses and domain names that are being used to circumvent site blocking measures
If the providers do not comply, they risk fines of up to 10,000 EUR per day
They have been allowed 10 days to take appropriate measures
Dutch language news article:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/79266/rechter-ziggo-en-xs4all-moeten-the-pirate-bay-blokkeren.html
Dutch government officials are bullying a 16-year-old who may be the youngest person to have ever sailed the globe all by herself
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Education / AwarenessTwo weeks before Laura Dekker is likely to finish her trip around the world, the officials complain that she did not finish and submit a sufficient amount of homework assignments.
In relation to these and other bullying tactics, also before she started the trip, she has now decided to replace the Dutch flag on her little boat with one of New-Zealand, where she will be heading and staying after she has concluded her journey.
Laura denies that she is neglecting her school duties. She is expected to finish her voyage between 20th and 30th January 2012 when she will be arriving at Saint Martin.
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/binnenland/2712242/leerplichtbureau-ontbiedt-vader-zeilmeisje-laura.html
Previously:
Dutch 15-year-old girl who is sailing around the world, begs hackers to stop wreaking havoc on her computer systems
http://vrritti.com/2011/01/19/dutch-15-year-old-girl-whos-sailing-around-the-world-begs-hackers-to-stop-wreaking-havoc-on-her-computer-systems/
MarkMonitor on SOPA: We believe that brand owners, consumers and those who create digital content deserve protection from online criminals and pirates
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Legislation, Public Policy, Stats / reportsWe also believe that any legislation must maximize protection of intellectual property rights and consumer safety while minimizing the risk of interfering with the benefits of an open and free Internet.
MarkMonitor, a brand protection service that deals largely in domains, accounts for a whopping 22% or 111 of the top 500 websites in the world. Some of the largest internet corporations, including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft rely on MarkMonitor for their domain protection.
Intel admits that the game was in fact a video, claiming it was done ‘for expediency.’
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/did-intel-fake-the-ces-2012-sandy-bridge-ultrabook-demo/17674
Israeli hackers: We’ve obtained Saudi credit card info
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessSaudi mobile phone salesmen pose threat to female customers
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Mobile techNBC Universal’s Own Preferred Researcher For ‘Anti-Piracy’ Stats Comes Out Against SOPA/PIPA
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Education / Awareness, LegislationEnvisional’s “head of piracy intelligence,” David Price, didn’t mince words in saying that infringement was, in fact, Hollywood’s own fault for not offering products in the way customers wanted and that SOPA/PIPA were the wrong approach to fixing its business model problems:
“The content owners are really fighting the tide of the Internet,” Price said. “They’re trying to fight the flow of the Internet which is all about making content as widely available as possible, as easily as possible, as quickly as possible. They’re trying to hold back the 1.4 billon users of the Internet from doing what the Internet wants them to do.”
In discussing SOPA/PIPA:
Price does not like the way the bills are drafted, potentially causing major technical and free speech issues. “When I talk to content owners I try to tell them this is not the way to go,” he remarked. “You don’t want to hurt people. You want to try and go with a compete approach, put the content out there and hope people will come to you.”
European Commission studying necessity of social network data retention policies
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyDutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/109152/bewaarplicht-dreigt-ook-voor-sociale-media.html
Attorney Generally who may soon have the power to seize domains, simply passed off MPAA-penned propaganda as his own words
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Legislation, Public PolicyCould it be that the column was partly written by the MPAA?
http://torrentfreak.com/rogue-attorney-general-spreads-mpaa-fed-sopa-propaganda-120110/
Twitter to Google: You broke the Internet!
Posted: 2012/01/11 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business ModelsThe new Google service, which is rolling out today, lets search users toggle between personalized and “global” results, with the former including information gleaned from its Google+ social network and its Picasa image-storage service. Twitter reasonably enough sees that move as a threat, since it could well encourage people to share breaking news on Google+ rather than Twitter.
Google could conceivably face antitrust issues with this move, similar to what Microsoft faced over its ill-fated decision to bundle its Internet Explorer browser with Windows.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57356476-93/twitter-to-google-you-broke-the-internet/
