Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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China hacking vs. Pentagon whacking: An arms race in cyber-space?
written by Nile Bowie from RT.com: Fresh allegations of hacking and cyber-theft between China and the United States as well as resources channeled into cyber-warfare and digital troops by both superpowers show uncertain diplomatic terrain ahead. As the Obama administration imposes gouging cuts on fundamental social spending, the White House is allocating $13 billion for…
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Malware That Drains Your Bank Account Thriving on Facebook
from NYTimes.com: In case you needed further evidence that the White Hats are losing the war on cybercrime, a six-year-old so-called Trojan horse program that drains bank accounts is alive and well on Facebook. Zeus is a particularly nasty Trojan horse that has infected millions of computers, most of them in the United States. Once…
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Exclusive: (AFRICOM) US Armed Forces Piloting Drones From Bases In Germany
from StratRisks.com: The targeted killing of presumed terrorists by drones in Africa has been largely conducted from US military bases in Germany, an investigation by German TV channel ARD’s “Panorama” and the Süddeutsche Zeitung has revealed. Particularly involved in running the drone missions are the Stuttgart-based US military high command for Africa (Africom) and the US Air Force’s Air…
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Retro Sci-Fi Weekend: ‘Unknown World’
A virtually unknown sci-fi flick about an “Unknown World” reflects 1952 Cold War Era with gratuitous mushroom cloud in an opening scene. The plot also reflects nuclear pessimism: “Dr. Jeremiah Morley (Victor Kilian) is concerned about an imminent nuclear war. He organizes an expedition of scientists and has them use an atomic-powered machine, capable of…
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Texas set to enact nation’s strongest e-mail privacy bill
from arstechnica.com: Assuming that Texas Governor Rick Perry does not veto it, the Lone Star State appears set to enact the nation’s strongest e-mail privacy bill. The proposed legislation requires state law enforcement agencies to get a warrant for all e-mails regardless of the age of the e-mail. On Tuesday, the Texas bill (HB 2268)…
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Now You Can Control Someone’s Arm Over The Net
from popsci.com.au: A group of graduate students in NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program have developed an open-source API that can allows you to move someone else’s arm remotely using a keyboard, a joystick or even an iPhone. Open Limbs, “a platform for controlling human arms over the internet,” uses electric pulses to fire the nerves connected…
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Xbox One ‘Spy Camera’ Questioned by Australian and German Officials
from StratRisks.com: The Australian and German officials are concerned with the “always on” camera and privacy policies of Xbox One. Software giant Microsoft revealed in the unveiling of Xbox One is the console’s always ‘on’ Kinect camera is being questioned by activities concerned with privacy. While Microsoft maintains that the company has “very, very good…
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Google Will Help Police to Track “Extremist Websites” Through its Search Results
from Guardian.co.uk: Google’s indexing of extremist websites helps police track their activity and will continue, the company’s chief told an audience at the Hay festival. Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, was asked to act to take down terrorist-sympathising websites from his search engines during a question and answer session at the literary festival on…
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‘The Penultimate Truth About Philip K Dick’
Science Fiction writer Philip K Dick (PKD) focused on themes that emerged later to become prominent in wider culture since his 1982 death. PKD themes include illusive subjectivity of reality and “…the pivotally Dickian question, What is real, what is fake? What crucial factor defines humanity as distinctly ‘alive’, versus those merely alive only in…
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#TPP: The Biggest Threat to the Internet You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is being negotiated in secret between more than 12 countries around the Pacific region. Find out why it’s the biggest threat to the Internet you’ve probably never heard of. from Electronic Frontier FoundationDirected and animated by Santiago Rocha.
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As Chinese Leader’s Visit Nears, U.S. Is Urged to Allow Counterattacks on Hackers
from apperspective.net: With President Obama preparing for a first meeting with China’s new president, a commission led by two former senior officials in his administration will recommend a series of steps that could significantly raise the cost to China of the theft of American industrial secrets. If milder measures failed, the commission said, the United…
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‘Campaign to Stop Killer Robots’ calling for ban on ‘fully autonomous weapons’
from rawstory.com: The idea of autonomous killer robots may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but human rights groups are already preparing for what appears to be the future of weaponry. The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, a coalition of international groups, is preparing for a global summit in Geneva Switzerland on Wednesday, May 29…
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NASA taps 3-D printer firm for ‘Star Trek’-style food replicator
from rawstory.com: U.S. space agency NASA has tapped 3-D printer firm Systems & Materials Research Corporation (SMRC) to create the first-ever “Star Trek”-style food replicator using 3-D printing technology. According to Quartz, NASA gave the company a six month, $125,000 grant contract to focus on developing 3-D printers that use cartridges full of carbohydrates,…
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Sci-Fi Audio: ‘A Martian Odyssey’
Gregg Margarite, a prolific audio book reader, provides description at Librivox website of science fiction writer Stanley G Weinbaum: “…best known for his short story ‘A Martian Odyssey’ which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first published in 1934. Weinbaum is considered the first writer to contrive an alien who thought as well…