Archive for 2012/03/02

Privacy and Civil Liberties in the Digital Age

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/03/opinion-franken-privacyliberties/

Hardware Hacking at TED: From Snap-Together Circuit Kits to Roach-Based Neuroscience

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/03/ted-2012-hardware-littlebits-makerbot/

UK Government Pressuring Search Engines To Censor Results In Favor Of Copyright Industries

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Google, New Business Models, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120302/05420517946/uk-government-pressuring-search-engines-to-censor-results-favor-copyright-industries.shtml

Data corruption at massive scale

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

Data corruption is a fact of life for all systems – but only large systems get a statistically significant sample. Amazon, home of the world’s largest cloud storage system, sees it all and concludes: trust nothing!

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/data-corruption-at-massive-scale/1619

The shame of owning an iPad

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/the-shame-of-owning-an-ipad/15356

AT&T, Facebook to host mobile app hackathon in two months

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/at-t-facebook-to-host-mobile-app-hackathon-in-two-months/9869

Apple revealed today that it has “created or supported” 514,000 jobs across the United States

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57389608-17/are-apple-products-really-fueling-the-u.s-job-market-eh-maybe/

Ex-CIA chief: Stuxnet a good idea

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

As long as it targets the enemy of course

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57389511-83/ex-cia-chief-stuxnet-a-good-idea/

Twitter hands over user info for criminal investigation (Don’t they all?)

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Privacy / Data Protection

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57389442-17/twitter-hands-over-user-info-for-criminal-investigation/

32 percent of people interrupt their food to tweet or post or text

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57389619-71/almost-half-of-millennials-tweet-while-they-eat-survey-says/

iPads using iOS 6, high-res displays showing up in Ars server logs

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/03/ipads-using-ios-6-high-res-displays-showing-up-in-ars-server-logs.ars

Apple still trying to negotiate more content for Apple TV

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/03/apple-still-trying-to-negotiate-more-content-for-apple-tv.ars

CityFibre UK Agrees Significant Metro Fibre Broadband Investment with Citigroup

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/03/02/cityfibre-uk-agrees-significant-metro-fibre-broadband-investment-with-citigroup.html

Users Expect Websites to Load in the Blink of an Eye

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution

http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/03/users-expect-websites-to-load-in-the-blink-of-an-eye/

Foreign Sites That Outshine the Web’s U.S. Stars

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/02/st_internetoutliers/

Fox Television, PBS and Univision Television and others asked a federal judge to halt an impending subscription service that enables the streaming of broadcast television to any internet-enabled device

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, Litigation, New Business Models

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/aereo-lawsuit/

DHS, Not NSA, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/rsa-security-panel/

Apple’s plans for Netflix killer turning studios, networks away?

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57389301-17/apples-plans-for-netflix-killer-turning-studios-networks-away/

Bitcoins worth $228,000 stolen from customers of hacked Webhost

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/bitcoins-worth-228000-stolen-from-customers-of-hacked-webhost.ars

AntiSec Dumps Monsanto Data On The Web – God Complex Knows No Bounds

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

Hackers affiliated with Anonymous go after the biotech giant, stating, “Your continued attack on the worlds food supply…has earned you our full attention.”

Next year, a time bomb embedded in the Copyright Act of 1976 starts to detonate

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Copyright, Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/5889748/why-mastered-for-itunes-wont-defuse-a-copyright-time-bomb

Spinning Radio Signals Could Boost Wireless Internet Speeds Over Large Distances

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/03/02/spinning-radio-signals-could-boost-wireless-internet-speeds-over-large-distances.html

UK ISP Vispa Internet Launches Uncapped Bonded Broadband Service

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2012/03/02/uk-isp-vispa-internet-launches-uncapped-bonded-broadband-service.html

AT&T has explained and clarified how “unlimited” its unlimited mobile data plans are

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Stats / reports

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/at-t-speed-and-data-greed-throttling-limits-on-unlimited-data-users/70676

In All This Talk Of Pinterest And Copyright, The Fact That It’s Driving Massive Traffic Seems Important

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120301/04085817924/all-this-talk-pinterest-copyright-fact-that-its-driving-massive-traffic-seems-important.shtml

Why Isn’t ICANN Speaking Out Against ICE/DOJ Domain Seizures?

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120301/02042717920/why-isnt-icann-speaking-out-against-icedoj-domain-seizures.shtml

NSA Power Grab: New Legislation Would Give It Broad Powers To Spy On ‘Critical’ Private Networks

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120229/17512717918/nsa-power-grab-new-legislation-would-give-it-broad-powers-to-spy-critical-private-networks.shtml

Warner Bros wants you to trade in your DVDs for cloud-stored video files

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, The Cloud

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/03/02/warner_home_entertainment_chief_moots_disc_to_digital_swap_scheme/

The UK has opted in to the EU passenger name record (PNR) agreement with the United States

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/02/uk_eu_deal_passenger_data/

FBI boss warns online threats will outpace terrorism

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public Policy

“In the not too distant future we anticipate that the cyber threat will pose the number one threat to our country,” the FBI’s director Robert Mueller told delegates at the RSA 2012 conference in San Francisco. “We need to take lessons learned from terrorism and apply them to cybercrime.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/02/fbi_cyber_terrorism_warning_rsa/

Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Filtering, Stats / reports

A “human error” carried out by the police resulted in thousands of websites being completely blocked at the DNS level yesterday. Danish visitors to around 8,000 sites including Google and Facebook were informed that the sites were being blocked by the country’s High Tech Crime Unit due to them offering child pornography, a situation which persisted for several hours.

Much more:
http://torrentfreak.com/google-facebook-and-8000-other-sites-accidentally-dns-blocked-120302/

Dictators Rejoice! TOR Users Can Be Identified, By Hackers Or NSA, EFF Claims

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports

Et Tu, Google? Android Apps Can Also Secretly Copy YOUR Photos From YOUR Phone

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Education / Awareness, Google, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports

New levels of evil innovated on daily basis

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/android-photos/?pagewanted=all

Google admits that this is possible and says it is considering changing its policies

Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2754029/android-apps-kunnen-fotos-zonder-toestemming-kopieren.html

Megaupload – Kim Dotcom Exclusive Interview “I will fight this and win” (video)

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, Stats / reports

Original source:
http://ondemand.tv3.co.nz/Campbell-Live-Thursday-March-1-2012/tabid/119/articleID/5578/MCat/73/Default.aspx

Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF48PjCtW4k 

 

Apple, apparently, won’t carry an ebook that contains a link to buy a hardcover book from Amazon

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, New Business Models

Freedom of speech anyone? Freedom of information? Is there a judge in the room?

http://www.thedominoproject.com/2012/02/who-decides.html

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