Rating Obama?s NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained Earlier today, President Obama announced a series of reforms to address abuses by the National Security Agency. We were heartened to see Obama recognized that the NSA has gone too far in trampling the privacy rights of people worldwide. In his speech, the President ensured that National Security … Read more
Wikipedia Shows the Value of a Vibrant Public Domain In the week leading up the two-year anniversary of the SOPA blackout protests, EFF and others are talking about key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day, we’ll take on a different piece, exploring what?s at stake and and what we need to do to … Read more
A Year After Aaron Swartz’s Death, Lawmakers Still Demand Answers On the eve of the anniversary of Aaron Swartz‘s tragic death, a group of eight lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are still looking for answers regarding the criminal investigation he was the subject of Remembering Aaron One year ago, we lost Aaron Swartz, a dear friend … Read more
Support from Zynga helps Bitcoin break the $1,000 valuation mark again The price of Bitcoin is back over US$1,000 after gaming giant Zynga became the latest company to adopt the virtual currency…. Aaron Swartz’s father, Bob Swartz, discusses his son’s death It’s been nearly a year since my friend Aaron Swartz killed himself, Foursquare details how it rewards … Read more
Game culture vs. women Game developer Brianna Wu explains that women haven’t yet made headway in the critical landscape of game culture, a fact exposed by 2013’s Game of the Year lists. The Most Pirated Movies of 2013 ? And Why Piracy Isn’t Hurting Profits Despite the high number of pirated films, Hollywood … Read more
Three things learned from the Snowden files The line they crossed separates the possibly legitimate, though dirty and distasteful tactics of spies from the impossible-to-justify, ?let?s hope it never becomes public? stratagems of an out-of-control surveillance establishment. Before the year ends, I wanted to capture a few points that stand out for me about … Read more
Foxconn whose clients include Apple Dell and HP have moved from China to western Turkey, the gateway of Europe. In 2012 Organized Rage pointed out in a series of articles if Foxconn Technology Group which manufactures Apple, Dell, HP and other high tech companies products, are given half a chance it will bring … Read more
Edward Snowden’s Statement to FP on His Selection as a Global Thinker Glassdoor: Twitter dethrones Facebook as the best tech company to work for, ending three-year streak Career website Glassdoor today released its sixth annual Employees? Choice Awards, a list of the 50 best places to work for in the coming year. Twitter was … Read more
State surveillance of personal data is theft, say world’s leading authors theguardian.com ? Matthew Taylor ? 12/9/13 5:00 PM ? More than 500 of the world’s leading authors, including five Nobel prize winners, have condemned the scale of state surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and warned that spy agencies are undermining democracy … Read more
Worst passwords (click to embiggen) Mark Burnett, whose work has been featured here before, has used lists of leaked passwords to compile a master list of the 10,000 worst passwords (with accompanying wordcloud, see above); an astonishing 91 percent of all passwords used appear in the top 1000. Here’s the top 100, with their relative frequency: NSA tracks … Read more
The Guardian experiments with a robot-generated newspaper with The Long Good Read The Guardian is experimenting in the craft newspaper business and getting some help from robots. That may sound odd, given that the company prints a daily paper read throughout Britain. A paper staffed by humans. But the company is tinkering with something … Read more
Bitcoin Tops $1,000 For the First Time An anonymous reader writes with this bit from The Next Web “Bitcoin hit a new milestone today, passing the $1,000 mark for the first time. The virtual currency is currently trading above the four-digit figure, with its highest at $1,030 on Mt. Gox, one of the largest exchanges. Texas Hacker … Read more
2013 Web Index Report Source: World Wide Web Foundation From Press Release: Key findings from the Web Index 2013 include: Targeted censorship of Web content by governments is widespread across the globe. Moderate to extensive blocking or filtering of politically sensitive content was reported in over 30 percent of Web Index countries during the Kim Dotcom … Read more
Pirate Party Gets Observer Status at World Trade Organization Following the launch of the first Pirate Party in Sweden the ?Pirate? movement quickly spread all over the world, and not without success. During the German elections earlier this year nearly a million people voted for the local Pirate Party, in Iceland the national Parliament has three Pirate MPs, … Read more
http://www.ozgurwebgunleri.org.tr/2013/ Özgür Web Teknolojileri Günleri 2013, 22-23 Kasım’da İstanbul Yeditepe Üniversitesi’nde. Etkinliği, Linux Kullanıcıları Derneği ve Yeditepe Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Topluluğu beraber düzenliyor. Özgür Yazılım A.Ş. ve Gittigidiyor’un sponsorluğundaki etkinlik, Türkiye‘de web teknolojileri ve özgür yazılımla ilgilenenleri buluşturacak. Etkinlikte “Ölçeklenebilirlik” ana teması etrafında 2 gün boyunca 3 paralel salonda 30’un üzerinde konuşmacı; seminerler, uygulamalı seminerler ve … Read more