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Sat, 25 May 2013 10:12:18 -0400

androidghost: Swarm (1978)

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:48:13 -0400

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Swarm (1978)

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Fri, 24 May 2013 16:36:25 -0400

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Fri, 24 May 2013 13:24:32 -0400

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Sacha Federowsky - Try everyday to destroy a world

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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator of Bitcoin?: For all of...

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:14:00 -0400

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator of Bitcoin?:

For all of Bitcoin’s fabled transparency, a key piece of this bubblicious puzzle remains elusively opaque. Who the hell is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Like a frustrating episode of Lost, there’s one too many clues and few if any answers. Satoshi, of course, is the one who started it all, unleashing his concept of a cryptographic, self-regulating digital currency to the world in his now infamous whitepaper in 2008.

Three years later, he was gone.

Encryption 101, by SpiderOak.

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:12:28 -0400

Encryption 101, by SpiderOak.

tinycartridge: Game Boy Game Boy Game Boy I doubt anyone cares...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:48:37 -0400

tinycartridge:

Game Boy Game Boy Game Boy

I doubt anyone cares what we post here this afternoon, given that everyone’s eyes are on the next Xbox reveal, so here’s a fun GIF from Pedro Miranda Filho. He has a lot of great GIFs on his Tumblr, so follow him.
BUY Game Boy games, upcoming releases

Once more…

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:24:28 -0400

Once more…

Chinese media mistake deviantART for Japanese military...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:03:46 -0400

Chinese media mistake deviantART for Japanese military concepts:

On Tuesday, word that the Japanese military was developing a high-tech helicopter spread across multiple Chinese media outlets. There was only one problem, though: These reports were not based in fact.

The first to cover this alleged military vehicle was the Global Times, who published a series of images of the concept design on its Huanqiu.com website.

“This appeared online today; it seems to be a concept for a Japanese Self Defense Force armed helicopter made by the Japanese military complex,” they asserted. “One can see that because this type of technology is not yet available, it looks like something out of science fiction.”

That’s because it is something out of science fiction. The creator of the images is Ridwan Chandra Choa, an Indonesian native who previously worked as an asset artist for Lucasfilm Animation Singapore. The Global Times lifted the pictures from Choa’s deviantART page, which not only features the aforementioned aircraft—Choa dubs it the “Fuujin Attack Helicopter”—but multiple futuristic weapons and gear as well.

What’s even worse is that the story was picked up by Xinhua, a Chinese newswire comparable to the Associated Press or Reuters.

For his part, Choa is appreciative of all the attention.

“What with the sudden spike in pageviews! So that’s the reason lol,” he wrote on his deviantART page, making sure to include a link to his commission information.

Internet of Things and surveillance

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:12:29 -0400

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 that driver is following or ignoring. No need to show ID; your identity will already be known. Store clerks could know your name, address, and income level as soon as you walk through the door. Billboards will tailor ads to you, and record how you respond to them. Fast food restaurants will know what you usually order, and exactly how to entice you to order more. Lots of companies will know whom you spend your days —and night — with. Facebook will know about any new relationship status before you bother to change it on your profile. And all of this information will all be saved, correlated, and studied. Even now, it feels a lot like science fiction.

Will you know any of this? Will your friends? It depends. Lots of these devices have, and will have, privacy settings. But these settings are remarkable not in how much privacy they afford, but in how much they deny. Access will likely be similar to your browsing habits, your files stored on Dropbox, your searches on Google, and your text messages from your phone. All of your data is saved by those companies — and many others — correlated, and then bought and sold without your knowledge or consent. You’d think that your privacy settings would keep random strangers from learning everything about you, but it only keeps random strangers who don’t pay for the privilege — or don’t work for the government and have the ability to demand the data. Power is what matters here: you’ll be able to keep the powerless from invading your privacy, but you’ll have no ability to prevent the powerful from doing it again and again.

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:48:24 -0400

corporalsteiner: 『眠狂四郎多情剣』 (1966)

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:36:17 -0400

corporalsteiner:

『眠狂四郎多情剣』 (1966)

The man who ‘nearly broke the internet’: Kamphuis,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:24:17 -0400

The man who ‘nearly broke the internet’:

Kamphuis, 35, is one of the most controversial characters in the murky world of spam and hacking – deemed the internet’s public enemy number one by some, though others believe his reputation has been blown out of proportion by the grandstanding of his foes.

Capable of rigging up sophisticated computer systems anywhere, including the back of a van, he allegedly masterminded a flurry of March internet attacks that the security company CloudFlare claimed “almost broke the internet”, plunging the world into digital darkness. When Spanish and Dutch police arrested him they found the flat occupied by a tangle of cables and computer gear. A copy of the science fiction writer Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver lay on the unmade bed.

Kamphuis displayed a Napoleonic sense of grandeur. “He claimed he had diplomatic status,” said the Spanish police officer who led the operation, but asked not to be named. “He said he was the telecommunications minister and foreign minister of a place called the Cyberbunker Republic. He didn’t seem to be joking.”

The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:02:34 -0400

The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home:

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, movies, web browsing, and live television, all of which can be done with voice commands. (In fact, the new console needs the Kinect to operate at all — it’s not an optional add-on like with the Xbox 360.) Even when the console’s turned off, users can simply say “Xbox On” to power up — which means the new Kinect will be listening to you in your living room at all times.

In fact, the new camera and microphone system is so sensitive to your presence, that Microsoft says the new Kinect can even read your heartbeat while you’re exercising, and recognize and process audio that’s personalized to specific individuals. “This is rocket science level stuff,” Xbox’s Marc Whitten said during today’s reveal.

Read more at the link.

Even if microsoft avoid getting that data(its too temptive not to), how long until someone hacks a way to spy trought xboxes?

Federal polices everywhere should tottaly support xbox one over any console i guess… much easier then bugging someones house yourself

That’s an excellent point. This thing will not only be surveilling the room 24/7, but also communicating with other devices in the home (and outside of the home?…what’s the range on this?). The Xbox One could be a major hub in the Internet of Things.

Of course, as we’ve seen, Microsoft isn’t all that great regarding protecting consumer’s privacy in the first place.

The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:09:00 -0400

The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home:

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 television, all of which can be done with voice commands. (In fact, the new console needs the Kinect to operate at all — it’s not an optional add-on like with the Xbox 360.) Even when the console’s turned off, users can simply say “Xbox On” to power up — which means the new Kinect will be listening to you in your living room at all times.

In fact, the new camera and microphone system is so sensitive to your presence, that Microsoft says the new Kinect can even read your heartbeat while you’re exercising, and recognize and process audio that’s personalized to specific individuals. “This is rocket science level stuff,” Xbox’s Marc Whitten said during today’s reveal.

A Timeline of Cyberwar and Cybercrime

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:52:01 -0400

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 Defense computers is dubbed Solar Sunrise, in which sensitive data was stolen across 500 systems, seemingly from servers around the world. The hack is traced to three teenagers in California.

May 1998
Stephen Glass is busted for fabricating, “Hack Heaven,” his story for The New Republic. The article told the fictitious tale of Ian Retsil, a 15-year-old hacker who used a school computer to bypass the security settings of fictional software company Jukt Micronics.

May 2000
Quaint by today’s standards, ILOVEYOU, or the Love Letter virus, was a computer worm that attacked tens of millions of Windows computers. A user is sent an email with “ILOVEYOU” in the subject line, and once opened, it overwrites image files and sends itself to the first 50 names in the user’s address book.

July 2001
Code Red, and still remembered for how quickly it spread, exploited a flaw in Microsoft operating systems that enabled it to deface and take down some websites. At one point it brought down the White House webpage, and forced other government agencies to take down their websites as well.

2003
Anonymous is born on 4chan’s image board.

2003
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security combines several of its cyberdefense offices into a new department, the National CyberSecurity Division. Its purpose is to protect government computers from hacks.

May 2003
Yet another email worm attacks users, but Fizzer was different—it went after money. Fizzer is the worm that sent out the now-everyday porn and pill email spam. It got so big that Microsoft offered a $250,000 reward for information that would lead to the arrest of its creator.

May 2004
The Sasser worm attacks the British Coast Guard, Agence France-Presse, and Delta Airlines. The virus also affects universities, hospitals, and major corporations—and it all came from a 17-year-old German kid.

December 2006
Internet-based watchdog and activist group WikiLeaks publishes its first document, a secret decision signed by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a Somali rebel leader for the Islamic Courts Union. The document calls for the execution of government officials.

April 2007
A large-scale cyber attack, originating in Russia (and perhaps with government encouragement), brings down major Estonian websites and IT networks, including the president’s office, the parliament, police, and the country’s two largest banks.

June 2007
U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert Gates gets his unclassified email account hacked. The attack allegedly coordinated by the People’s Liberation Army in China.

December 2008
The Koobface worm—an anagram of Facebook—is first detected on social media platforms.The worm targets users of Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter among others, and uses compromised computers to build a peer-to-peer botnet.

May 2010
A memo by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says that the risk of cyber attacks are growing substantially.

January 2010
Dozens of Silicon Valley tech companies—including Google—report that hackers from China attacked their computer networks.

June 2010
The computer worm Stuxnet, thought to have been created by the U.S. and Israel, attacks the operating systems of nuclear facilities in Iran.

October 2010
WikiLeaks posts 391,832 classified U.S. military documents on the war in Iraq. It was the largest leak in history, and revealed instances of the military ignoring detainee abuse and an increase in the civilian casualty count.

December 2010
Anonymous targets PayPal and Mastercard in what it calls Operation Payback, a movement to take revenge on companies that have suspended WikiLeaks accounts.

January 2011
Hackers from China target not only the Canadian government but also the Defence Research and Development Canada, the scientific and technological arm of the Department of National Defence. The hacks leave officials concerned about how much sensitive information was accessed.

April 2011
A hacker steals the names, e-mail addresses, and passwords of more than 70 million users of Sony’s online gaming network. The hack costs an estimated $170 million.

September 2011
Conservative MP Bob Dechert admits that he sent flirtatious emails to Shi Rong, a journalist working in for China’s Xinhua news agency. Xinhua is state-controlled, and many believe that some of its correspondents pass information to Chinese intelligence or even operate as spies.

October 2012
Ottawa considers banning China’s Huawei, a telecommunications equipment and services company, for fear that the Chinese government is using their products to spy on other countries. Huawei denies the claim.

April 2012
Former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke publishes Cyber War about the threat of cyber-terrorism. In the book, Clarke warns about an “electronic Pearl Harbor” replete with mass blackouts and subway crashes.

February 2013
A 12-storey building on the outskirts of Shanghai is discovered to be the headquarters of Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army—the unit suspected of being behind cyber attacks around the world.

March 2013
Internet activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz commits suicide at 26. In 2011, Swartz was arrested for allegedly downloading around four million academic journals with intent to distribute them for free.

April 2013
Matthew Keys, the deputy social media editor for Reuters, is fired after being indicted on federal charges for conspiring with Anonymous. It’s alleged that Keys conspired with Anonymous in order to hack into and change a news story on the Los Angeles Times website.

April 2013
The 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report says that 96 per cent of incidents of government cyber-espionage originate in China. The other 4 percent are from unknown sources.

May 2013
In just 10 hours, hackers in more than two dozen countries steal $45 million from thousands of ATMs around the world. They erased withdrawal limits on prepaid debit cards in tens of thousands of transactions. Eight defendants are charged for attacks in December and February.

May 2013
All four members of LulzSec, a group of hackers that attacked multiple organizations, are sentenced in the UK for their crimes. Hacking mostly for the fun of it, LulzSec went after Sony, the CIA, and Fox.

Boston Dynamics/DARPA robot prototype “Cheetah” runs...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:48:33 -0400

Boston Dynamics/DARPA robot prototype “Cheetah” runs at 18mph.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 16:36:56 -0400

rigintelligence: Surveillance keeps getting smarter. New...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:24:26 -0400

rigintelligence:

Surveillance keeps getting smarter.

New software brings face detection to stores and streets for $40 a month

Cara is a cheap, privacy-conscious tool that works on any standard webcam

Sparrows on the Wall of Berlin which separates East and West...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:12:28 -0400

Sparrows on the Wall of Berlin which separates East and West Berlin. Photographed by Paul Schutzer, 1962

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androidghost: Swarm (1978)

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sachafedor: Sacha Federowsky - Try everyday to destroy a...

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator of Bitcoin?: For all of...

Encryption 101, by SpiderOak.

tinycartridge: Game Boy Game Boy Game Boy I doubt anyone cares...

Game Boy Game Boy Game Boy

Once more…

Chinese media mistake deviantART for Japanese military...

Internet of Things and surveillance

corporalsteiner: 『眠狂四郎 多情剣』 (1966)

The man who ‘nearly broke the internet’: Kamphuis,...

The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home

The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home

A Timeline of Cyberwar and Cybercrime

Boston Dynamics/DARPA robot prototype “Cheetah” runs...

Photo

rigintelligence: Surveillance keeps getting smarter. New...

Sparrows on the Wall of Berlin which separates East and West...

corporalsteiner: 『眠狂四郎多情剣』 (1966)