Not sure how objective this is. You
listen and judge...
National
Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State
Surveillance
April 20, 2012 by Dissent
In his first
television interview since he resigned from the National Security
Agency over its domestic surveillance program, William Binney
discusses the NSA’s massive power to spy on Americans and why the
FBI raided his home after he became a whistleblower. Binney was a
key source for investigative journalist James Bamford’s recent
exposé in Wired Magazine about how the NSA is quietly building the
largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah. The Utah spy
center will contain near-bottomless databases to store all forms of
communication collected by the agency, including private emails, cell
phone calls, Google searches and other personal data.
Watch this segment on Democracy
Now! There are also other segments of this series that you will
want to watch, but Binney’s revelations are chilling.
(Related)
Islandwide
surveillance looms large in Singapore
April 20, 2012 by Dissent
The China Post reports:
Singapore has
begun installing police surveillance cameras that will eventually
cover all 10,000 public-housing blocks across the island, officials
confirmed Friday.
The move
immediately drew mixed reactions in a city-state already famous for
being one of the world’s safest societies but now undergoing
political transition as citizens demand greater freedom from
government control.
Read more on China
Post.
(Related) It's called Traffic
Analysis. It's what I was trained in many, many years ago...
"The UK government's proposal
to separate communications data from content, as part of new plans to
allow intelligence services to monitor all internet activity, is
infeasible according to a panel of technology experts. Speaking at
the 'Scrambling for Safety' conference in London, Ross Anderson,
professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory, said that the distinction between traffic data
as being harmless and content as being sensitive is becoming
less and less relevant. 'Now that people
are living more and more of their lives online, the pattern of who
you communicate with and in what order gives away pretty well
everything,' he said. 'This means that, in data
protection terms, traffic data is now very often going to be
specially sensitive data.'"
Should not be a problems if you use a
reputable Anti-Virus program.
Web
could vanish for hordes of people in July, FBI warns
… The problem is related to malware
called DNSChanger
that was first discovered way back in 2007 and that has infected
millions of computers worldwide.
As a U.S attorney said in an FBI press
release, the crooks "were international cyberbandits who
hijacked millions of computers at will and rerouted them to Internet
Web sites and advertisements of their own choosing -- collecting
millions in undeserved commissions for all the hijacked computer
clicks and Internet ads they fraudulently engineered."
Late last year, however, the FBI
disrupted the ring and seized the rogue servers. And since so many
infected computers relied on the servers to reach the Internet, the
agency opted not to shut them down and instead converted them to
legitimate DNS machines.
Running the machines costs the
government money, though,so they're being switched off in July. If
your computer is infected with DNSChanger then, the Web -- for you --
will no longer exist.
Although
we've been seeing this for years, I still doubt that IT is ready to
manage it. Probably some interesting legal issues too.
Go
ahead, bring your Windows 8 gadgets to work, says Microsoft
… In a blog posted Thursday,
"Managing
'BYO' PCs in the enterprise (including WOA)", Mircrosoft's
Jeffrey Sutherland, a program manager lead in the company's
Management Systems group, addresses the "drive towards
consumerization of IT" and how consumer technology is "bleeding
into business organizations." In short,
employees are bringing their personal laptops, tablets,
and smartphones to work rather than using the devices assigned to
them by the organization they work for.
WOA refers to Windows-[8]-on-ARM, or
what is now called Windows RT. Devices running Windows RT will
include tablets, hybrid tablet-laptops, as well as small laptops --
all running on power-efficient ARM chips from Qualcomm, Nvidia, or
Texas Instruments.
Forget Harvard (even Yale does) –
this is what we're competing with. Many Academics are dismissing
this trend, but with some classes enrolling over 100,000 students
it's clear there is a market here... (Strange collection of examples
they picked...)
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a great, free education online
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