Cyberculture roundup: Amazon buys my fav. Goodreads, Google’s patent move, “It?s Not Slacktivism if it Changes Culture”, Attack on Spamhaus…

Amazon’s Plan to Own Writing and Reading Advances With Goodreads Buy from Wired Top Stories by Marcus Wohlsen Amazon looked back to its roots in bookselling and forward to its future as the global overlord of all human literary output by announcing its plan today to purchase social reading site GoodReads. Amazon acquires social book … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Pirate Bay vs. Anonymous, Cybarmegeddon, New smartphone user research, “Few Companies Fight Patriot Act Gag Orders

Pirate Bay to Anonymous: DDoS is censorship, cut it out from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow A good-tempered rebuke from The Pirate Bay to the Anons who staged a raid on Virgin Media in protest of the ISP’s participation in blocking The Pirate Bay for its customers: More Americans Worried About Cybarmegeddon Than Terrorism, Study … Read more

Deniz Ergürel’den bilgilendirici bir yazı: Anonymous Group, Internet Sansürü, DDoS Saldırısı ve Zombi Bilgisayarlar #operationturkey

Anonymous Group, Internet Sansürü, DDoS Saldırısı ve Zombi Bilgisayarlar Anonymous Group adlı bir hacker grubu bugün (7 Haziran) yaptığı duyuruyla Türkiye?deki internet erişim engellemelerini protesto etmek için bazı resmi Türk sitelerine siber saldırı yapacağını açıkladı (http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/id/25220700/) Anonymous Group DDoS Attack (DDoS Saldırısı) olarak bilinen bir yöntemle Türk sitelerine saldırı yapacak. Peki DDoS saldırısı nedir? Internette hızlı … Read more

Net Neutrality debates continue; A Guide to the Open Internet, DDoS versus human rights organizations etc- a roundup

A Guide to the Open Internet: What You Need to Know About Net Neutrality from Daily Bits by noemi You?ve probably been reading/hearing about net neutrality in the recent months. Left and right, people are talking about it ? either trying to push for the concept or trying to take it down. What is net … Read more