A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products Berkman Center Newsfeed Teaser In this paper, which is modeled on a similar effort in 1999 by researchers from George Washington University, Berkman Fellow Bruce Schneier and collaborator Kathleen Seidel together with Harvard College student Saranya Vijayakuma identify and survey 865 encryption products from 55 different countries, 546 of them … Read more
New attack infects Macs in seconds, even without internet The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal Apple computers have always been touted as more secure than other PCs because their firmware couldn’t be penetrated. Unfortunately, that’s no longer true, as a newly created self-replicating worm has shown. Games, chat and personalized content: Ray Chan on the future of … Read more
Hacking Team Shows the World How Not to Stockpile Exploits Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter Zero-day exploits are like gold to hackers. Keep them all in one place and you’re asking to get robbed. Caspar Bowden: NSA Hearing LIBE European Parliament, 24 September 2013 open Democracy News Analysis – by Caspar Bowden As a tribute to … Read more
Turkish court decides to continue detainment for imprisoned suspect of 21 years An Istanbul court has ruled for the continuation of a 21-year-long detainment of a 42-year-old man, who has been standing trial for an anti-terror case since 1994. Petition launched for journalist Baransu to be released immediately Today’s Zaman (blog) “When the Justice and Development … Read more
Roberto Bolaño’s 12 Tips on “the Art of Writing Short Stories” Open Culture by Josh Jones For some certain romantic reasons, a segment of the English-language reading population fell in love with Roberto Bolaño in the first few years of this millennium. One invariably glimpsed Bolaño’s award-winning 1998 novel The Savage Detectives on endtables and nightstands after its translation in 2007, … Read more
Ulrich Beck – an appreciation open Democracy News Analysis – by Robin Wilson openSecurity editor Robin Wilson reflects on the work of German intellectual – and frequent openDemocracy contributor – Ulrich Beck, who sadly passed away on 1 January. Ulrich Beck (1944-2015). Wikimedia commons. Public domain. Huge trove of Smithsonian art digitized; over 40,000 works kottke.org by Jason … Read more
BuzzFeed İstanbul Listesinin Altına Yazılıp Aklımızı Alan 26 Dev Yorum ListeList by Emir Aksoy More comments here. Street animals protected in industrial zones close to Istanbul Hurriyet Daily News Several firms have announced their participation in a project for the protection of stray animals in industrial zones close to Istanbul. Century-old bones come to surface in Istanbul The … Read more
The US military runs studies on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit to learn how to counter propaganda The Next Web by Josh Ong In light of Facebook’s disconcerting emotion experiment, The Guardian has published an in-depth look at the US military’s own research efforts to understand and influence social media. DARPA, the Department of Defense’s tech research … Read more
Facebook manipulated 690,000 users’ News Feeds to run a psychology experiment The Next Web by Jon Russell Facebook is more than just a social network, it is also officially an online science laboratory. The company has revealed in a research paper that it carried out a week-long experiment that affected nearly 700,000 users to test the effects of transferring emotion … Read more
And the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year Is … ‘Selfie’ Oxford Dictionaries announced “Selfie” as the international Word of the Year 2013, noting its frequency in the English language has increased by 17,000% since last year The Online Dating Engine that Assesses Your Taste In the Opposite Sex (And Whether They Find You … Read more
Nobel Prize-winning British author Doris Lessing dies aged 94 British author Doris Lessing, whose powerful feminist and anti-colonial writing won her the Nobel Literature Prize, died at the age of 94 ********************* Turkish epitaph: Christopher de Bellaigue on Orhan Pamuk Christopher de Bellaigue is struck by the vulgar, Stepford Wives vision that has replaced the … Read more