* I wonder when some trolls will find the haka dance offensive… From her leader to his citizens, New Zealanders seem to be doing their best to cope with the tragedy. Even the social media platforms did seem to be trying hard to disappear massacre videos. Pro-government trolls Islamists in Turkey must be frustrated. So … Read more
FBI Keeps Telling Purely Theoretical Encryption Horror Stories The Intercept by Jenna McLaughlin Federal law enforcement officials decrying the proliferation of strong encryption said Tuesday that the only reason they lack actual examples of how often it shields criminals is that they’ve done a “bad job” of collecting them. UK’s MI5 security chief warns that encryption is making … Read more
UN: Encryption and Anonymity Must Be Protected TorrentFreak For the past several years and particularly in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations, interest in encrypted and anonymous communications has spread to a much wider audience. Survey: Many Users Never Read Social Networking Terms of Service Agreements All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison As reported by SocialTimes last … Read more
Turkey, Egypt in fresh quarrel after Erdoğan’s remarks The foreign ministries of Turkey and Egypt have traded a fresh round of accusatory statements, with the latter condemning Erdoğan’s latest remarks and his ‘flagrant intervention’ in Egypt’s internal affairs Turkey avoided being Ukraine, Egypt: Erdoğan Turkish police has behaved softly to demonstrators when compared to the U.S. … Read more
The FBI Director’s Evidence Against Encryption Is Pathetic The Intercept by Dan Froomkin FBI Director James Comey gave a speech Thursday about how cell-phone encryption could lead law enforcement to a “very dark place” where it “misses out” on crucial evidence to nail criminals. To make his case, he cited four real-life examples — examples that … Read more
WikiLeaks releases FinFisher ‘malware’ Whistleblower website claims German group has sold surveillance software to some of the world’s most abusive regimes WikiLeaks Exposes Countries That Use Controversial’FinFisher’ Surveillance Tech Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchiera WikiLeaks published a batch of documents and files pertaining to the controversial surveillance technology company FinFisher on Monday, including a list of its … Read more
Click here to follow RedHack and Anonymous Team Up for November 5 Protests See on Scoop.it ? Another World Now! November 5 is a symbolic date on which hacktivists and activists from all over the world plan on protesting and marching for various causes. RedHack a? #BillionMaskMarch Events List ? Latest Update ? 443 City Across the World and Growing … Read more
New Zealand Author Eleanor Catton Wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize 28 year old Eleanor Catton becomes the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize. She won for her novel, The Luminaries. Neil Gaiman explains the worth and value of libraries In an absolutely stirring, smashing speech delivered as the Reading Agency annual lecture, Neil … Read more
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Scholar shows “three strikes” programs don’t reduce piracy Evaluating Graduated Response, a new paper from Rebecca Giblin from the law school at Australia’s Monash University looks at the impact of “three strikes” and “graduated response” punishments for file-sharing. Countries including France, New Zealand, Taiwan, South Korea, the U.K., Ireland and the U.S. have adopted systems … Read more
Why Microsoft wants to buy Nokia?s device business In the wake of Microsoft announcing that it wants to purchase Nokia?s devices and services business, many have commented that it is a move long in the making ? uniting its Windows Phone software with its main hardware partners makes a lot of sense. Microsoft-Nokia Deal Proves … Read more
The Pirate Bay launched its own PirateBrowser last week. Here?s how it works The Pirate Bay celebrated 10 years of managing to keep itself online (as much to its own surprise, as anyone else?s) on Friday, and to mark the occasion, it released a special Web browser based on Firefox that includes a bundled Tor … Read more