http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090412064427972
FL: FBC blogger feels privacy was violated
Sunday, April 12 2009 @ 06:44 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
A formerly anonymous blogger says his First Amendment and privacy rights may have been violated when authorities revealed his identity to First Baptist Church in Jacksonville.
Police, the State Attorney's Office and a state law enforcement expert disagree.
But experts on criminal investigations, electronic privacy rights and constitutional law say the First Baptist case at the very least raises valid free speech and privacy questions.
Source - Jacksonville.com
[From the article:
Also disputed is whether the detective who identified and outed the blogger acted unethically because he belongs to the downtown megachurch and the security detail of its pastor, the Rev. Mac Brunson.
This is what an open debate is all about, isn't it? You will never convince me to change my point of view, but you can convince all of my readers than I'm nuts, stupid, or the devil. (It also pays to carefully listen to your audience – something big chain newspapers seem to have forgotten.)
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/12/1152222&from=rss
In Defense of the Anonymous Commenter
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday April 12, @09:44AM from the seems-familiar dept. The Media The Internet
Hugh Pickens writes
"Doug Feaver has an interesting story in the Washington Post 'in defense of the anonymous, unmoderated, often appallingly inaccurate, sometimes profane, frequently off point and occasionally racist reader comments that washingtonpost.com allows to be published at the end of articles and blogs.' Feaver says that during his seven-year tenure as editor and executive editor of washingtonpost.com he kept un-moderated comments off the site, but now, four years after retiring, he says he has come to think that online comments are a terrific addition to the conversation, and that journalists need to take them seriously. 'The subjects that have generated the most vitriol during my tenure in this role are race and immigration,' writes Feaver. 'But I am heartened by the fact that such comments do not go unchallenged by readers. In fact, comment strings are often self-correcting and provide informative exchanges.' Feaver says that comments are also a pretty good political survey. 'The first day it became clear that a federal bailout of Wall Street was a real prospect, the comments on the main story were almost 100 percent negative. It was a great predictor of how folks feel, well out in front of the polls. We journalists need to pay attention to what our readers say, even if we don't like it. There are things to learn.'"
Related This is a bad area to propagandize poorly. Get it right or you can really tick people off. (and how do you find quotes from the Koran in favor of Gordon Brown?
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/13/0243229&from=rss
UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google
Posted by timothy on Monday April 13, @05:53AM from the raisins-not-virgins dept. Google Politics
Hugh Pickens writes
"The British government's Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT), a 200-strong Home Office unit created 18 months ago, has said in meetings it wants to 'flood the internet' with 'positive' interpretations of Islam and plans to train government-approved groups in search engine optimization techniques, which it is hoped will boost their profile online and battle radicalization. A Home Office spokesman confirmed search engine optimization training is part of the government's anti-radicalization strategy. 'In order to support mainstream voices, we work with local partners to help develop their communication, representational and leadership skills. This support could include media training, which can help make their voices heard more widely, and support the development of skills which allow communities to be more effective in debate.' However the effectiveness of search engine optimization in reducing traffic to extremist websites has been dismissed by academics. A report produced by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) said young Muslims were much more likely to be directed to extremist material online by web forums and offline associates than by Google or other search engines. 'Tweaking the results for supposedly extremist terms would be largely ineffectual, not least because it is unlikely that any but the most callow wannabe terrorist would use a mainstream search engine to find banned material.'"
Related? How would Google ensure that it was me? I always upload using my alter-ego – a mild-mannered law school professor...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090413060903198
Google disables uploads, comments on YouTube Korea over privacy clampdown
Monday, April 13 2009 @ 06:09 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
Google has disabled user uploads and comments on the Korean version of its YouTube video portal in reaction to a new law that requires the real name of a contributor be listed along each contribution they make.
Source - Macworld
[From the article:
In response to the requirements Google has stopped users from uploading via its Korean portal rather than start a new registration system.
"We have a bias in favor of freedom of expression and are committed to openness," said Lucinda Barlow, a spokeswoman for YouTube in Asia. "It's very important that if users want to be anonymous that they have that chance."
But while the move obeys the letter of the law it skirts around the spirit of it by allowing users based in South Korea to continue uploading and commenting on YouTube by switching their preference setting to a country other than Korea.
17-year-old claims responsibility for Twitter worm
April 12th, 2009 - 1:46 pm ICT by admin
Brooklyn, NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — Mikeyy Mooney, the 17-year-old creator of StalkDaily.com from Brooklyn, has admitted responsibility for the Twitter worm that rapidly spread through Twitter on Saturday, stating in an email to BNO News, “I am aware of the attack and yes I am behind this attack.”
Twitter users were infected by simply visiting an infected users Twitter page.
… The code behind the attack was linked to by TechCrunch commenter James Cox: http://gist.github.com/93782. Looking through the code, it doesn’t appear to capture user passwords.
Related
http://twittercism.com/howto-remove-stalkdaily/
HOWTO: Remove StalkDaily.com From Your Infected Twitter Profile (UPDATED)
Saturday, April 11th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
The issue on Twitter has now been rectified but please read and take the steps below if you are infected. For tips on how you can protect yourself in the future from these exploits, go here. For help on removing the Mikeyy worm, go here.
Hoist on their own petard? Remember my plan for a “utilities-to-the-door” organization that would sell providers access on a per customer basis. Avoids all this “I'm the only game in town so I can do whatever I want” thinking.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/12/2044244&from=rss
Time Warner Transfer Caps May Inspire Fair-Price Legislation
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday April 12, @05:11PM from the what-have-you-got-against-monopolies dept.
Time Warner's recently announced plan to expand their broadband transfer caps to new markets drew heavy criticism, which prompted their attempt to smooth things over with a ridiculously expensive "unlimited" plan. That wasn't enough for New York Representative Eric Massa, who now says he will draft legislation to "curb tiers, particularly in areas where a broadband provider owns a monopoly on service." Massa said, "Time Warner believes they can do this in Rochester, NY; Greensboro, NC; and Austin and San Antonio, Texas, and it's almost certainly just a matter of time before they attempt to overcharge all of their customers," adding, "I believe safeguards must be put in place when a business has a monopoly on a specific region."
Hacking for fun and profit.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/12/1520205&from=rss
Eavesdropping On Google Voice and Skype
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday April 12, @12:43PM from the can-i-hear-you-now dept.
Simmons writes with news of research that demonstrated vulnerabilities in Skype and Google Voice that would have allowed attackers to eavesdrop on calls or place unauthorized calls of their own.
"The attacks on Google Voice and Skype use different techniques, but essentially they both work because neither service requires a password to access its voicemail system. For the Skype attack to work, the victim would have to be tricked into visiting a malicious Web site within 30 minutes of being logged into Skype. In the Google Voice attack (PDF), the hacker would first need to know the victim's phone number, but Secure Science has devised a way to figure this out using Google Voice's Short Message Service (SMS). Google patched the bugs that enabled Secure Science's attack last week and has now added a password requirement to its voicemail system, the company said in a statement. ... The Skype flaws have not yet been patched, according to James."
Reader EricTheGreen contributes related news that eBay may sell Skype back to its original founders.
Another article for Cindy's “Sex & Power” class. (Didn't this used to be illegal?)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10217694-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
The site where sugar daddies find their sweet babies
by Chris Matyszczyk April 12, 2009 10:50 AM PDT
… So perhaps you might be one of the 300,000 who populate Seekingarrangement.com, a site that tries to bring together those who have money (and are, by virtue of the virtues of capitalism, older) and younger things who wish to earn money in exchange for being, in the site's immaculate vernacular, sugar babies.
Seekingarrangement.com is profiled at some glorious length in Sunday's New York Times and one could scarcely think of a more appropriate subject for Easter Sunday. Here we have luminous Hefners in search of, hopefully, bed-hopping bunnies.
Databases for my Data Analysis/e-Discovery students to search.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/021075.html
April 12, 2009
National Archives to Release Reagan and Bush 41 Presidential Records
News release: "Acting Archivist of the United States Adrienne Thomas announced [April 10, 2009] that 245,763 pages of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush Presidential records will be opened for research on Monday, April 13, 2009, at their respective libraries. These records, which were still pending with the George W. Bush Administration as of January 20, 2009, today cleared the review process established by President Barack Obama under Executive Order 13489.
"On Monday, April 13, 2009, the Ronald Reagan library will open 244,966 pages of records processed in response to hundreds of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. These records include the Presidential Briefing Papers collection, Office of Speechwriting research material, and approximately 13,000 pages of declassified records on numerous foreign policy topics. To date, more than ten million pages of Presidential records have been processed at the Reagan library."
On Monday, April 13, 2009, the George H. W. Bush library will open 797 pages of records that deal with Saudi Arabia. To date, more than six million pages of Presidential records have been processed at the Bush library..."
For my Statistics students...
http://news.cnet.com/technically-incorrect/
Facebook messes up your GPA
by Chris Matyszczyk April 12, 2009 11:40 AM PDT
… Yes, researchers at Ohio State University have delved deep into the habit that is Facebook and concluded that those who express their membership regularly do worse in school tests.
In fact, they say, the majority of those who Facebook daily do worse by as much as one whole grade.
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