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Cyberculture agenda: WikiLeaks releases FinFisher ‘malware’… PEW Report- Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’

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  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

Kerry in town to persuade reluctant Turks…

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  Kerry arrives in Ankara seeking support for anti-ISIL coalition U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Ankarafor talks aimed at building a coalition against ISIL, a visit that comes after Turkey refused to allow the use of its air bases for launching attacks on the extremists Arabs back anti-ISIL statement as Turkey abstains w Key … Read more

So police state style. No court orders will be needed to block sites or record web traffic…

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New Bill Allows TIB to Control Internet Traffic Data After the passing of a new omnibus law, Turkey’s Telecommunication Authorities are now able to control internet traffic information and it will be passed onto related officials through judges – a type of information that could be only be requested within an investigation. News in Turkish … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: @zeynep piece on Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson…

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 Here is Zeynep Tüfekçi’s piece. *********************** Pop-Up Ad Inventor Apologizes for Creating a ‘Fiasco’  Mashable! by The Atlantic Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do,” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. It begins: Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson  Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin   A prison visit with The … Read more

In the anniversary of PKK’s attackes began, guerilla chief’s statue erected.

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News in Turkish The statue is in a Diyarbakır village. It is for “Mahsum Korkmaz, also known as Agit, was the first commander of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’s military forces.” ************** Turkey ruling party favours Davutoglu as new PM: report Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has strongly backed the naming of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as the new premier … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Self-directed Crypto 101 online course…Pirate Bay Hits Historic 10 Million Torrent Milestone…

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https://www.crypto101.io/   Self-directed Crypto 101 online course Boing Boing Crypto 101 is a free online course on practical, applied cryptography: ” everything you need to understand complete systems such as SSL/TLS: block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, public key encryption, key agreement protocols, and signature algorithms.” Pirate Bay Hits Historic 10 Million Torrent … Read more

Rare good news. 48 KCK suspects released… Dispatches from Turkey…

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  Diyarbakır court release 48 KCK suspects in main case Hurriyet Daily News A Diyarbakır court has released 48 of 91 arrested suspects in the main case against the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) , Controversy between Turkish government, top court rages on The controversy surrounding the Constitutional Court?s partial overturning of a judicial bill has continued, … Read more

Turkey’s Internet Bill on NYT editorial while the EU minister’s response shows the misery of Turkey’s EU dream…

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POLITICS > US the last state to advise Turkey on Internet: EU minister Hurriyet Daily News ‘Everybody knows the restrictions on the Internet in the US, especially regarding WikiLeaks,’ Turkish EU Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Feb 20. AA photo. The U.S. is the ?last state to advise Turkey? with respect to the Internet, Turkish EU … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “8 emerging tech hubs…

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs This post originally appeared on the TransferWise blog. TransferWise is the clever new way to transfer money between countries, from the people the people who built Skype and PayPal. A profile of Julian Assange, by his ghostwriter Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, 2011. Toby Melville/Reuters   Facebook … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: PEW research on “Couples, the Internet, and Social Media

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  Couples, the Internet, and Social Media How American couples use digital technology to manage life, logistics, and emotional intimacy within their relationships Love And Religion On Facebook   A Complete, Interactive History of Bitcoin In less than a decade, Bitcoin has gone from concept to niche cryptocurrency, and recently it has made significant inroads into … Read more

President Gül invites opposition leaders for meeting amid political crisis.. A politics roundup…

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Turkish President Gül invites opposition leaders for meeting amid political crisis The invitation comes amid an ongoing political crisis fueled by a bill on the judiciary   In Scandal, Turkey?s Leaders May Be Losing Their Tight Grip on News Media The New York Times (USA)  Sunday, January 12, 2014, p. A 11 By Tim Arango … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Game culture vs. women… “. top crowdfunding campaigns of 2013…

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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

Corruption Case: Many police chiefs, including Hüseyin Çapkın of Istanbul, replaced. Probable media blackout to start…

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  When did Erdoğan know about the bribe probe? One of the biggest corruption probes in Turkish history has put Tayyip Erdoğan?s AK Parti Istanbul police chief dismissed after arrests in corruption case   Huseyin Capkin says he has been removed from post and recalled to Ankara, after allies of PM caught up in inquiry Istanbul’s most … Read more

Fulya Yıldırımer (@Fu7y4): 1 DAKİKASI 183.000 DOLAR

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1 DAKİKASI 183.000 DOLAR Hackerlar tarafından sıklıkla kullanılan bir saldırı yöntemi olan DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) siteye giriş trafiği çok fazlaymış gibi etki yaratarak sistemi işlevsiz ve cevap veremez hale getirmeyi amaçlar. Yani ?her sistem kurulurken; kullanıcı sayıları, hat kapasitesi, anlık istek sayısı gibi unsurlar için belli değerler öngörülür ve bu değerlerin biraz daha üstünde yükü … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “a master list of the 10,000 worst passwords…Amazon’s drones…

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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