May 2013
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Internet of Things and surveillance →
Bruce Schneier offers his characteristically dismal outlook:
In the longer term, the Internet of Things means ubiquitous surveillance. If an object “knows” you have purchased it, and communicates via either Wi-Fi or the mobile network, then whoever or whatever it is communicating with will know where you are. Your car will know who is in it, who is driving, and what traffic laws...
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The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in... →
into-the-cyberage:
silviowilma:
The reason for always-on listening mode is simple; Microsoft wants the new Xbox to respond quickly and naturally to you, whenever you need it. To fulfill that goal, the company will ship the new Kinect — its motion-sensing and listening peripheral — with every Xbox One. The new console uses the new Kinect for just about everything: switching between games,...
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The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in... →
The reason for always-on listening mode is simple; Microsoft wants the new Xbox to respond quickly and naturally to you, whenever you need it. To fulfill that goal, the company will ship the new Kinect — its motion-sensing and listening peripheral — with every Xbox One. The new console uses the new Kinect for just about everything: switching between games, movies, web browsing, and live...
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A Timeline of Cyberwar and Cybercrime →
1973 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the U.S. starts a program to look into technologies that link computer networks.
1982 15-year-old Pennsylvanian Rich Skrenta writes the Elk Cloner program, the first computer virus ever found “in the wild.”
1984 Author of Neuromancer, William Gibson, coins the term “cyberspace.”
February 1998 A series of attacks on U.S. Department of...
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termsofenragement:
Corporate social media accounts just remind me of this:
Yes. Everytime I see one of those lame meme-hopping gifs with a $ beneath it on the side of the dashboard, I get a little sad.
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Street Artist Uses Graffiti to Converse with the... →
Street artist mobstr. had the ensuing conversation with the local authorities using graffiti. Judging by all of their white-washings, they were not fans of any of the several shades of grey he proposed.
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“What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, “Write what you...”
– ANNIE PROULX
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Untitled-1: Hacking Politics: name-your-price... →
mouthbeef:
Hacking Politics is a new book recounting the history of the fight against SOPA, when geeks, hackers and activists turned Washington politics upside-down and changed how Congress thinks about the Internet. It collects essays by many people (including me): Aaron Swartz, Larry Lessig, Zoe…
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The Ocean's Tides Explained →
Almost everyone is aware of the role that gravity plays in our lives. Not only does it keep our feet planted firmly on the ground, but it also keeps order in the solar system. The gravitational forces associated with the Sun and the planets interact to describe the orbits that we are familiar with, as well as keep the Moon trapped in orbit around the Earth. These forces aren’t only limited...
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"Big Brother" is big business?
antinwo:
The odds are you are not just a face in the crowd any longer. Even if your picture isn’t plastered all over social networking and photo-sharing sites, facial recognition technology in public places is making it harder if not impossible to remain anonymous. Lesley Stahl reports on the new ways this technology is being used that even has one of its inventors calling it too intrusive....
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Special Report: U.S. cyberwar strategy stokes fear... →
priceofliberty:
(Reuters) - Even as the U.S. government confronts rival powers over widespread Internet espionage, it has become the biggest buyer in a burgeoning gray market where hackers and security firms sell tools for breaking into computers.
The strategy is spurring concern in the technology industry and intelligence community that Washington is in effect encouraging hacking and failing...
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“You want tangible, social benefits to writing fiction? There are people walking...”
– Warren Ellis
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