Happy Friday, TGIF, and all that, kittens! We are at last all caught up on our sleep from the two all-nighters we’ve pulled this week, and today’s articles should blow the doors off, so stand by. In the meanwhile, here are… Read More ›
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What You Need To Know About Asylum in the UK
Very interesting. As the world’s population becomes more mobile, becoming a refugee becomes a choice for many millions of people who previously did not have the option. How we treat those refugees, people who by definition have chosen our country… Read More ›
Target Says Credit Card Data Breach Cost It $162M In 2013-14
Or approximately as much as their failure in Canada. Note that this number, while impressive, does not include the upcoming lawsuits from people whose data was irresponsibly risked. The hack exposed the fact that Target was both collecting and storing… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 25
We’re halfway to the weekend, kittens, and you can practically smell the sea breeze and pollen, can’t you? There are still a couple of days before you can bugger off to the beach or hole up in your dingy and… Read More ›
Hackers Spend 200+ Days Inside Systems Before Discovery
Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
It’s getting harder for organizations to spot when they’ve been breached, despite the average time taken to detect an incursion dropping to 205 days, according to the latest annual M-Trends report from FireEye. Drawing on the…
Matt DeHart Denied Refugee Status: Looking to the Future With Tor Ekeland and Jesselyn Radack
American Matt DeHart, former Anon, former US soldier, former refugee claimant, is facing a new and very involuntary life back in The Land of the Free, having been denied refugee status in Canada, the country to which he fled after… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 24
Morning, kittens! Are you all bright eyed, bushy tailed, and ready to start your day with the very best roundup of cyber and crypto and other buzzword links the internet has to offer? Splendid. Let’s begin! The Reddit-est thing in… Read More ›
The Oscars, Academy Awards, Hollywood Heroism: From ‘Citizen-four’ and ‘Selma’ to ‘American Sniper’; Martin Luther King, Edward Snowden and Chris Kyle and America’s Addiction to Violence.
Originally posted on Fahrenheit451Bookstore :
? The United States’ addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify. Within the last few months, three films appeared that offer role models, however flawed, to young people while…
Snowden Does Reddit
The Post-Oscar AMA. Welcome to the 21st Century, where nonfiction>fiction as well as stranger.
Is Infocommunism A Real Danger? The Circle by Dave Eggers
Does the amount of things that Google knows about you scare you? In my last review, I discussed Angwin’s Dragnet Nation. This week, I’m reviewing a fictional representation of this idea pushed to its extreme: a network so all… Read More ›
Film Friday: We Are Legion, the Story of the Hacktivists
Let’s go back in time, kittens: back all the way to 2008, before most of the world had ever heard of Anonymous. And then, let’s look at some of the the busiest, messiest years in American history and watch as Anonymous… Read More ›
Old Article Written By Raif Badawi
Originally posted on Raif Badawi's Blog:
Coinciding with the painful terrorist September eleventh events, which killed more than three thousand innocent people, the Muslims in that stricken city are demanding to build an Islamic center containing a mosque and…
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 20
We made it! We crawled, dragged, rolled, staggered, or jogged to the end of the work week. Cast off the suit jackets and uncomfortable shoes, and don the floppy slippers and Thuggies that say a) this is the weekend and… Read More ›
What’s Persona Management?
Or, sock puppetry for fun and profit.
A massive database now translates news in 65 languages in real time
Originally posted on Gigaom:
I have written quite a bit about GDELT (the Global Database of Events, Languages and Tone) over the past year, because I think it’s a great example of the type of ambitious project only made possible by the…
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