Looks like 16 inches of “Al Gore
won't shovel it because it is too warm to” snow.
No doubt it will be useful to show my
Ethical Hackers exactly how the “Pros” do it...
Anonymous
Eavesdrops on FBI Anti-Anonymous Strategy Meeting
As FBI and Scotland Yard investigators
recently plotted out a strategy for tracking suspects linked to
Anonymous, little did they know that members of the group were
eavesdropping on their conference call and recording their plans.
The online vigilante group has released
a 17-minute clip of a Jan. 17 conference call between
investigators discussing evidence gathered against members of the
group as well as upcoming plans for arrests. The group also released
an e-mail sent out by an FBI agent to law enforcement agents around
the world with a phone number and password for accessing the
conference call.
The FBI has confirmed to the Associated
Press that the
recording is authentic.
Help Google “Do no evil.”
Hide
From Google
Google started off the new year by
announcing that they will be changing
their privacy policies so that they can create more detailed
profiles of their users. Starting March 1st, 2012, Google
will combine information from user’s Gmail, Google Search
history, YouTube, and other services.
… Because we have come to rely on
web services so much in our day-to-day activities, it simply isn't an
option to stop using search, webmail, and social networking. But
there are ways for heavy users to keep a low profile so that, should
Google turn decidedly evil, you won't be completely at their mercy.
If you are concerned about the amount of information that Google
knows about you for whatever reason, here are some techniques you can
use to guard your privacy online.
Did they really try to “own” your
content and are now backing down?
Apple
to Authors: Content You Make in iBook App is Yours, Not Ours
Apple has amended a controversial
clause in the end-user license agreement of its
recently introduced iBooks Author e-book creation app. The first
version could be read as saying that any e-book created or edited in
iBooks Author could only be sold exclusively in Apple’s store.
The new EULA of iBooks Author 1.0.1,
released Friday, makes it clear that content created inside iBooks
Author belongs to authors, and can be sold on any other e-book
platform; only files encoded in Apple’s proprietary .ibooks format
are limited to Apple’s iBooks store. iBooks made in iBooks Author
can still be distributed for free anywhere.
No doubt all my students will want the
“dogs barking the Darth Vader theme” as a ringtone...
Have you found a YouTube video that you
want to set as your phone’s ringtone? Normally to do this, you
will first need to download the video, then pass it through a
video-to-audio conversion app. You might also need a separate
application to extract the part of the audio that you need. But all
of this can be done using a single web app called YouTube to Ringtone
Converter.
Perhaps a similar Infographic for
Educators would be useful?
...because governments know more that
school boards (just ask them.) No doubt this is based on hundreds of
independent, scientifically valid studies... What? It's not? Not
even a few studies? None at all? How entirely government like...
(Strange how Apple made their big e-textbook announcement just a few
days earlier.)
On February 1, the FCC and the
Department of Education unveiled a "Digital Textbook Playbook"
(PDF),
a guide to help K-12 schools makes the transition from printed
textbooks to digital ones. According to FCC Chairman Julius
Genachowski, the goal is to get all students in the U.S. using
digital textbooks in the next five years.
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