Archive for 2012/04/23

Vint Cerf About The Internet: We Knew What We Were Unleashing on the World

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution

The big deal about the internet design was you could have arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together. And the theory we had is that if we just specify what the protocols would look like and what software you needed to write, anybody who wanted to build a piece of internet would do that and find somebody who would be willing to connect to them. Then the system would grow organically because it didn’t have any central control.

And that’s exactly what happened.

Much more:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/epicenter-isoc-famers-qa-cerf/all/1

Previously:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vT65ziVsiyU#t=1631s

Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales: Hollywood will likely share the same fate as Encyclopedia Britannica

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution

”Collaborative storytelling and filmmaking will do to Hollywood what Wikipedia did to Encyclopedia Britannica”

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/wales-hollywood-doomed/

IFPI has now won the right to identify dozens of Pirate Bay users that allegedly downloaded and shared an album before its official release

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation

The CEO of Universal, the label behind the action, says infringers could be taken to court

http://torrentfreak.com/court-gives-ifpi-permission-to-identify-pirate-bay-users-120423/

Hurt Locker Makers Return to Sue 2,514 BitTorrent Users

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, Stats / reports

While The Hurt Locker is a prominent name, this mass-lawsuit is just one of many being filed every week. In total more than 250,000 alleged BitTorrent users have been targeted in the United States and this number continues to increase.

While most of the plaintiffs are adult film studios, more reputable brands such as the major book publisher Wiley & Sons have joined in as well. And last week the first game publisher filed a lawsuit as “Airbus X” makers Aerosoft GmbH targeted 50 downloaders.

Depending on the success of the current cases, the BitTorrent lawsuits may continue for years. Thus far there is no indication that the end is in sight

More:
http://torrentfreak.com/hurt-locker-makers-return-to-sue-2514-bittorrent-users-120423/

Is Selling Your Ultraviolet Code Copyright Infringement?

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120418/20330218550/is-selling-your-ultraviolet-code-copyright-infringement.shtml

PrivacyChoice today announced the launch of Privacyscore for Facebook, the first and only privacy guide to the Facebook app universe

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports

http://blog.privacychoice.org/2012/04/23/privacyscores-for-the-other-web-facebook/

Congressmen pushing awful cybersecurity bill fail cybersecurity 101

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public Policy, Stats / reports

http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2012/04/congressmen-pushing-awful-cybersecurity.html

NimbleTV streams cable TV to any device, legally

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/nimbletv-streams-cable-tv-to-any-device-legally/29242

Dropbox adds link file-sharing; Welcome to the Megaupload club

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing

Dropbox has painted a giant target on its back by offering one simple, additional feature to its file-storage service: a link-generating button to enable public file-sharing.

A Sweden-born “online piracy religion” is seeking official recognition in the United States. “Kopimists” preach that any act of copying information is sacred and cannot be limited by any human law

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://rt.com/news/online-piracy-religion-us-698/

‘France now more racist than 5 years ago’

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reports

http://rt.com/news/france-hollande-challenges-hamon-701/

UK ISP Fluidata Prepares Network to Cope with Olympic Games Data Surge

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

Our customers typically also have demand for high bandwidth as well as uptime, so capacity is carefully engineered with low thresholds set to trigger upgrades. On our DSL platforms routers are kept at no more than 30% usage during peak hours, with average across the network typically 15-20%. This ensures that traffic re-routed during a failure can be absorbed at other sites with ease.

In preparation for the Olympics we are operating with peak backbone usage typically between 5 & 10% and have plumbed in an additional 40 Gb/s of Internet transit routing capacity – enough to comfortably serve huge customer demands whilst being able to also cushion large DoS attacks.

More:
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2012/04/uk-isp-fluidata-prepares-network-to-cope-with-olympic-games-data-surge.html

Vodafone Signs GBP 1 Billion Takeover of Cable and Wireless Worldwide

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2012/04/vodafone-signs-gbp1-billion-takeover-of-cable-and-wireless-worldwide.html

Watch an Adorable Girl Grow from a Baby to 12 Years Old in Less Than Three Minutes (video)

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/5904139/watch-an-adorable-girl-grow-from-a-baby-to-12-years-old-in-less-than-three-minutes

Obama Clamps Down on Tech-Based Humans Rights Abuse By Foreign Nationals

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reports

http://gizmodo.com/5904233/obama-clamps-down-on-tech+based-humans-rights-abuse

Turing’s Nazi Enigma Code-Breaking Secrets Have Been Declassified

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/5904253/turings-nazi-enigma-code+breaking-secrets-have-been-declassified

Iran Cracks US Stealth Spy Drone’s Secrets, Shows Proof

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness

If confirmed, it’s very bad news for the United States

http://gizmodo.com/5904255/iran-claims-they-have-decrypted-us-stealth-spy-drones-secrets

A “prototype” quadrotor equipped with a machine gun (video)

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://gizmodo.com/5904277/this-quadrotor-flying-machine-gun-would-kick-serious-ass-some-day

Last summer, the Pentagon’s Falcon HTV-2 glider – which the Air Force says can fly from New York to LA in under 12 minutes, disappeared

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

Nobody knew why! Now we know why: it went so fast it ripped itself apart

http://gizmodo.com/5904360/the-air-forces-secret-hypersonic-glider-flew-so-fast-its-skin-fell-off

This Philips AmbientLED Bulb Is Your Never-Worry-About-A-Bulb-Again Deal of the Day

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

Not only does this light replace your incandescent 60 watt bulb, it also claims to last for 15 years.

http://gizmodo.com/5904407/this-philips-ambientled-bulb-is-your-never+worry+about+a+bulb+again-deal-of-the-day

Google spends record $5 million on lobbying, finally joins old boys club

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Google, Public Policy, Stats / reports

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57419046-93/google-spends-record-$5-million-on-lobbying/

The trade association representing AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint opposes a California proposal for search warrants to track mobile devices, claiming it will cause “confusion”

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Legislation, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reports

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57418662-281/wireless-providers-side-with-cops-over-users-on-location-privacy/

Microsoft adds paid storage tiers to SkyDrive cloud service

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57419130-75/microsoft-adds-paid-storage-tiers-to-skydrive-cloud-service/

Facebook: When a company with nearly limitless resources shows itself ready to spend whatever is necessary to beef up its intellectual property portfolio

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57419231-93/facebooks-patent-spree-theres-more-where-that-came-from/

How science failed during the Gulf oil disaster

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/how-science-failed-during-the-gulf-oil-disaster.ars

Iran cuts off Internet access to oil refineries following malware attack

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reports

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/iran-cuts-off-internet-access-to-oil-refineries-after-cyberattack.ars

VC in Chinese tech firms drops by 84% in Q1 2012 versus Q1 2011

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/vc-in-chinese-tech-firms-drops-by-84-in-q1-2012-versus-q1-2011.ars

The History of File-Sharing

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Stats / reports

Last century filesharing was a fringe hobby, only for geeks who were lucky enough to own a computer that could dial into the World Wide Web. How different is that today, where filesharing has become daily routine for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. In just a few years swapping files has become mainstream. Time to take a step back and see how it all came about.

http://torrentfreak.com/the-history-of-filesharing-120422/

Post-iiNet ISPs may celebrate, but hosts should fret

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Stats / reports

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/22/iinet_not_a_blanket_immunity/

Famous Hackers: Then and Now

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2012-04-18/famous-hackers-then-and-now.html

Defendant Charged in Massive Internet Fraud Scheme Extradited from Estonia Appeared in Manhattan Federal Court

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement

Defendant is the First to Face Charges in the United States for Sophisticated Scheme that Infected Millions of Computers Worldwide and Manipulated Internet Advertising Business

http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2012/defendant-charged-in-massive-internet-fraud-scheme-extradited-from-estonia-appeared-in-manhattan-federal-court

A state employee inappropriately gained access to personal information for more than 228,000 Medicaid beneficiaries

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports

http://www.thestate.com/2012/04/20/2241321/personal-information-of-more-than.html

Cisco’s track record with software tells us the company will not survive the shift to software-defined networking

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/saas/the-day-software-ate-cisco/1548

Scientists To Soon Create Unlimited Supply of Humans In The Lab

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://preventdisease.com/news/12/042212_Scientists-To-Soon-Create-Unlimited-Supply-of-Humans-In-The-Lab.shtml

Officials Don’t Know Why 877 Dead Dolphins Have Been Found on Beaches in Peru

Posted: 2012/04/23 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://gizmodo.com/5904133/officials-dont-know-why-877-dead-dolphins-have-been-found-on-beaches-in-peru

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