Another list of leaked files. Consider this: The ability to hack into websites is not a recent development. Just because you haven't heard of it before does not mean it hasn't happened.
http://www.databreaches.net/?p=19252
Meanwhile, over at Uber Leaks…
June 25, 2011 by admin
@UberLeaks has been busy revealing a bunch of recently hacked web sites. I’ve looked at the screenshots and tried to summarize the fields in the descriptions below. Note that #9 and #10 are flagged as it’s not clear which organization is associated with which data dump (if either) due to somewhat conflicting tweets.
View this as a draft/work in progress and please let me know of any corrections or additions. Eventually, if/when these are confirmed, they will be added to DataLossDB.org, but right now, I don’t have any confirmations and I’ve got a headache from doing this much so I am off to make more coffee….
[List omitted Bob]
I mentioned this yesterday and did a little follow-up.
Policing the Police: The Apps That Let You Spy on the Cops
After the recent Vancouver riots, it became clear that the world is surveiling itself at an unprecedented scale. Angry citizens gave police one million photos and 1,000 hours of video footage to help them track down the rioters. If we aren't living in a surveillance state run by the government, we're certainly conducting a huge surveillance experiment on each other.
Which is what makes two new apps, CopRecorder and OpenWatch, and their Web component, OpenWatch.net, so interesting.
… CopRecorder can record audio without indicating that it's doing so [Should be trivial to have it upload as it records... Bob] like the Voice Memos app does. It comes with a built-in uploader to OpenWatch, so that Jones can do "analysis" of the recording and scrub any personally identifying data before posting the audio. He said he receives between 50 and 100 submissions per day, with a really interesting encounter with an authority figure coming in about every day and a half.
… in some states -- Massachusetts and Illinois among them -- it is illegal to use a recording device to document a police action.
“Information wants to be free.” and the Internet wants to be open. I wonder if the plans are available via Google?
Afghans Build Open Source Internet From Trash
"Residents of Jalalabad have built the FabFi network: an open-source system that uses common building materials and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless ethernet signals across distances of up to several miles."
(Related)
http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-set-up-a-open-mesh-network-in-your-neighborhood
How To Set Up An Open Mesh Network in Your Neighborhood
Interesting if strange strategy... Can you hear the legal wolves gathering?
Skype’s Worthless Employee Stock Option Plan: Here’s Why They Did It
Skype is being criticized for terminating employees immediately prior to the closing of the Microsoft acquisition, and people are assuming they’re doing this to keep the value of those employees stock options. Skype’s response boils down to saying that the employees were fired because they weren’t good employees, and that the value of the stock is negligible and didn’t affect the decision making process.
Ok. But it gets worse.
Employees aren’t even able to keep the vested portion of their stock options.
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