Tag: facebook

  • Can Facebook Convince You to Give Up Your Organs?

    It’s only been a day since Facebook announced a new feature that allows users of the social network to share their organ donor status on their profiles. But in at least one state, the move already seems to be having an impact.

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  • #DataDump: Satellites, CISPA, Space Boat and more

    ‘Internet doomsday’ July 9, claims FBI* Satellite export controls loom over national security, economy* Military Clashes with U.S. Spies over Outsourcing of Satellite Surveillance* Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor in Control System Code* Judges Drive Truck Through Loophole in Supreme Court GPS Ruling* High Court rules iiNet not responsible for its customers’ illegal downloads* Czechs…

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  • #DataDump: Log-Ins and Paper Planes

    Scientists estimate billions of habitable planets in Milky Way // Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Finds Apollo 11 Engines on Ocean Floor // Gigantic paper plane soars over Arizona skies // James Murdoch reportedly resigns from three boards // Audit faults Apple supplier’s factories in China

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  • #DataDump: Electronic Curtains, Conflict Minerals and more

    #DataDump: Electronic Curtains, Conflict Minerals and more

    NSA Chief Denies, Denies, Denies Wired’s Domestic Spying Story: ‘NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)’ // U.S. dangles secret data for Russia missile shield approval // Teenager arrested for comments made on Facebook page //

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  • 2/9 DefCon: FBI, LSD, IPO, CAPTCHA, SCADA & More

    2/9 DefCon: FBI, LSD, IPO, CAPTCHA, SCADA & More

    FBI releases Steve Jobs file, Notes Use of LSD, Dishonesty // WikiLeaks suspect Manning to be arraigned this month // Google Begins Security Review Process for Android Apps // Facebook crashes day after IPO bonanza: Social network under fire from 850 million users who want share of IPO

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  • 2/2 Defcon: Mind Reading, Brain Living

    2/2 Defcon: Mind Reading, Brain Living

    Scientists trial ‘mind reading’ computer // Window Installed Into a Live Brain // What Will Facebook Do With $10 Billion? // Google changes its privacy policy: Another reminder to use offshore email // FBI spyware not Skype responsible for spilling MegaUpload secrets // Police arrest 5 as hacking scandal spreads to Sun tabloid // NASA…

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  • 1/19 Defcon: Megatakedown, Koobfaced & More

    1/19 Defcon: Megatakedown, Koobfaced & More

    Feds Shutter Megaupload, Arrest Executives // Anonymous Takes Down DoJ, UMG in Retaliation // Judge Orders Search of ‘News of the World’ Computers // Online Protest Against Obama’s Drone War Flops // Zappos Hacked, Tells 24m Customers to Change Passwords // US to Launch Space Arms-Control Initiative

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  • 12/29 #defcon: ç¥∫´®ßπåç´∑å® – 404 file or directory not found

    #2012 watch: the countdown begins* how the world might end in 2012 (or maybe later)* top 10 most bizarre tech stories of 2011* ten plotlines you’ll find in science fiction – over & over again* twin probes to orbit moon, study gravity field* sen. ron wyden leaps into middle of internet piracy fight* army ‘red…

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  • 12/8 defcon: kepler, voyager, zynga & more

    new planet an earth-like world, 600 light-years away?* video: new planet eerily like earth* nasa spacecraft ‘voyager 1’ exploring solar system’s edge* video: surfer blood ‘voyager reprise’* iran shows intact drone, boasts of cyberattack* house cyber panel chair says put dhs over cybersecurity* on facebook, nypd officers maligned west indian paradegoers* oregon judge rules bloggers…

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  • facebook = cia databank

    Are you surprised? You shouldn’t be! Writer Sandeep Parwaga gets it right in article, “Facebook is a CIA Databank”, “…Facebook and Google data mine information about you.” Parwaga cites a November 4th AP article making it, officially, public knowledge. A previous February henrymakow.com article by Parwaga also covered issue, “Facebook & Google are CIA Fronts”.…

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  • 10/20 defcon: ops, apps & agony

    top egypt ‘facebook revolutionary’ advising #OWS* ‘anti-cheating boyfriend’ app forced to change* video: theater review of ‘the agony & the ecstasy of steve jobs’: the moral issues behind iphone & its makers* was 1883 astro-mystery a near-miss billion ton comet?* does future hold ‘avatar’-like bodies for us?* russians wants to build colony on the moon;…

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  • 9/29 defcon: cookies, retention & a heavenly palace

    facebook tracks you even after logging out* australian tech expert discovers faCIAbook cookies* facebook to form its own political action committee* after outcry, onstar backing down on vehicle data collection* ‘retention periods of major cellular service providers’: secret memo reveals verizon stores your data the longest* state dept employee faces firing for posting wikileaks link*…

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  • nypd forms new social media unit to mine for mayhem

    from national terror alert: The NYPD has formed a new unit to track troublemakers who announce plans or brag about their crimes on Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. Newly named Assistant Commissioner Kevin O’Connor, one of the department’s online and gang gurus, has been put in charge of the new juvenile justice unit. He and his…

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  • 8/11 Defcon: Focused Chaos, Miracle Weapons & The Facebook Op

    8/11 Defcon: Focused Chaos, Miracle Weapons & The Facebook Op

    Twitter users face arrest for inciting London looters // Mossad’s miracle weapon: Stuxnet virus opens new era of cyber war // Survey finds smartphone apps store too much personal data

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  • 8/4 Defcon: Black Hat, Shady Rat, Mantech & More

    8/4 Defcon: Black Hat, Shady Rat, Mantech & More

    Former CIA official Cofer Black ‘predicts’ cyber 9/11 // Stuxnet changes terrorism equation, says former CIA official at black hat con // Vanity Fair exclusive on ‘Operation Shady Rat’: Unprecedented cyber-espionage campaign & intellectual-property bonanza // Hackers hit FBI merc Mantech; Online security contractor for FBI, NATO, DOD, DOJ & state dept // Randi Zuckerberg…

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