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YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Zero. Welcome to the New Net | Epicenter | Wired.com
"In 2007, the majority of the internet’s traffic came distributed by 30,000 blocks of servers around the net (technically Autonomous System Numbers). In 2009, 150 blocks served up half of the net’s traffic."
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Jinjiang (晋江原创网), a site for original writing by women started in 2003 out of a BBS hosted in a small city in Fujian Province
DARPA Creating Fake Internet Complete With Fake N00B Users | Threat Level
Total Information Awareness program, where they created an entire world of fake people buying and selling fake things, calling their fake friends and visiting fake dentists who filled fake cavities. They called it Vanilla World.
Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole | Threat Level | Wired.com
The attack intercepts only traffic headed to target addresses, not from them, and it can’t always vacuum in traffic within a network — say, from one AT&T customer to another.
New York Times‘ NSA Whistleblower Reveals Himself | Threat Level
The code name for the NSA’s phone call and e-mail collection program was "Stellar Wind."
Researchers Use PlayStation Cluster to Forge a Web Skeleton Key | Threat Level
"We can impersonate Amazon.com and you won’t notice,"
Documents: FBI Spyware Has Been Snaring Extortionists, Hackers for Years | Threat Level | Wired.com
a "computer and internet protocol address verifier," or CIPAV, is designed to infiltrate a target’s computer and gather a wide range of information, which it secretly sends to an FBI server in eastern Virginia
Inside-Out China: "The Biggest Threat Is not Social Unrest but Societal Breakdown" (1)
Powerful interest groups are unbridled and the tendency toward an underworld society emerges; Social justice erodes; Lack of professional ethics is common; Society's information system is filled with falsehoods, fake statistical data representing systematic distortions of information.
Asia Sentinel - The Chinese Internet - Sea Changes in 2008
Information that is created within such a culture has become an 'information bomb'.
Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists | Danger Room
GPS utilities could be used for "marksmanship, border crossings, and in concealment of supplies." and find multiple routes, identifying terrain features as they go
State’s Trolls ‘Push Back’ Against Anti-U.S. Bloggers | Danger Room
State employs eight professional Internet "trolls" whose job it is to log onto blogs in unfriendly countries and "push back" against what Glassman says is misinformation about the U.S.
Robber Recruits Henchmen on Craiglist | Danger Room
wrested a bag of cash from an armored truck guard and escaped down a creek with an inner tube.
Comcast Is Hiring an Internet Snoop for the Feds | Danger Room
Comcast, the country’s second-largest Internet provider, is looking for an engineer to handle "reconnaissance" and "analysis" of "subscriber intelligence" for the company’s "National Security Operations."
Wage Cyberwar Against Hamas, Surrender Your PC | Danger Room
Israeli botnet/social network DOS attack system
The Prospects for Cyberocracy « iRevolution
“no administrative system is capable of representing [or monitoring] every existing social community except through a heroic and greatly schematized process of abstraction and simplification.”
Project Cybersyn: Chile 2.0 in 1973 « iRevolution
Project Cybersyn is an early computer network developed in Chile during the socialist presidency of Salvador Allende (1970–1973) to regulate the growing social property area and manage the transition of Chile’s economy from capitalism to socialism.
Futures of Learning
Youth & New Media MacArthur research in China
BBC NEWS | UK | Phone calls database considered
Ministers are to consider plans for a database of electronic information holding details of every phone call and e-mail sent in the UK
GVO: The fear implied in a real-name internet
law, passed by city congress, is named ‘Regulation on Protection of Computer Information and Internet safety' (计算机信息网络安全保护管理条例)
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