Tag: google
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2/10 Defcon: Harsh Sentences, Trojan Horse, Hotfile
Hackers hit NASDAQ computers // Hypnosis by LCD becoming increasingly rampant // FCC net neutrality is a regulatory ‘trojan horse’ // Motion Picture Association sues Hotfile.com for direct copyright infringement & theft ‘on a staggering scale’
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DHS Seizes More Domains; This Time for Linking to Copyrighted Material
Apparently the Department of Homeland Security is now authorized to rewrite and enforce copyright infringement laws.
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1/27 Defcon: Congress, Connections & ‘The Company’
‘Protecting cyberspace as a national asset act of 2010’ – Bill to give president right to shutdown net back in Congress // Google comes under fire for ‘secret’ relationship with NSA // Social networks under attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US; They don’t connect people – they isolate them // Internet down in Egypt…
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1/20 Defcon: Firms, Foes & IPO’s
Google’s Eric Schmidt passes CEO reins to Larry Page // Apple’s Jobs takes another medical leave, raising questions about firm’s future // Dancho Danchev, Bulgarian security researcher & cybercrime foe, goes missing
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2010: the year the internet went to war
from threat level: It was a year without parallel. Threat Level’s bread-and-butter themes of censorship, hacking, security, privacy, copyright and cyberwar were all represented in tug-of-war struggles with unprecedented outcomes. Google defeated China’s censors, but caved to corporate censorship in the United States. The largest computer-crime case ever prosecuted ended in the nation’s longest prison…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Medieval Climate Change, ObamaCare Unconstitutional, Gootube Censorship
Story #1: Scientists Admit Climate Change Worse Before Human CO2 // Story #2: Virginia Court Rules Portions of ‘ObamaCare’ Unconstitutional // Story #3: YouTube Will Allow Users to Flag Videos for Promoting ‘Terrorism’
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12/2 Defcon: Fingerprints, Arsenic & Oxygen
Feds warrantlessly tracking credit cards in real time // Google admits Street View trespassing, hit with crippling $1 fine // Most popular Yahoo search in 2010 was ‘BP oil spill’; First time for a news story
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11/11 Defcon: Brain Drain & Smart Viruses
FCC probing Google wi-fi spy scandal // New cyber attack linked to fake Nobel Prize email // Smart viruses threaten global peace // Congresswoman says chance of cyber attack against electric grid is 100%
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10/28 Defcon: The Dark Ages & Leaking Data
One EMP burst and the world goes dark // Feds let Google off with warning for Wifi–sniffing cars // Google admits street view cars took emails & passwords from computers // Netflix now accounts for 20% of downstream bandwidth during peak
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Hundred Years Starship
NASA’s Ames Research Center directer Pete Worden presented plans for space exploration mission to Mars at a recent conference in San Francisco, CA. The mission titled “Hundred Years Starship” will be a one way trip as studies show return trip would be too costly.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: French Fight Back, Google Slapped Down, Pilot Stands Up
Story #1: Will Americans Follow French Example of Mass Civil Unrest? // Story #2: Corps & Govts: Violating Privacy with Legal Ease Related: Pentagon Braces for Release of 400,000 Iraq Files on WikiLeaks // Story #3: Pilot Refuses Naked Body Scanner & ‘Pat Down’
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Corps & Govts: Violating Privacy With Legal Ease
Google Inc. violated Canadian privacy law by collecting personal information from unsecured wireless networks across the country for its Street View service
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The Real You
Tom Burghardt writes in recent article, “When the ‘Future’ Invades Our Lives. The CIA Funds ‘Predictive Behavior Start-Ups,” how CIA-backed companies team up to control you. Burghardt’s article reads like a Hegelian dialectic.