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The internet is the most important innovation for democracy of our time. With the internet citizens are empowered to be creators of information, not just passive consumers, and they’re networked so exchange happens peer-to-peer, not through some central authority.The internet is the most important innovation for democracy of our time. With the... more
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An old friend of mine who I haven't seen in probably close to 30 years, Ian Kallen contacted me a few months ago about an iPhone app he was working on called Blockboard. It's a type of social networking app, but more micro-social networking that helps bring together people in your neighborhood. At the time they were focusing on the Mission District because that's where they were started, but now they've expanded to cover all of San Francisco and are moving on to cover other cities.An old friend of mine who I haven't seen in probably close to 30 years, Ian... more
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Hollywood Reporter and Billboard join forces to deliver a two-day seminar on the role of music in film and television, taking place in Hollywood, October 24-25. Now in its tenth year, this Conference offers attendees an opportunity to learn from, network with, and get the ear of attending music... more at: http://actorschecklist.com/wordpress/?p=152Hollywood Reporter and Billboard join forces to deliver a two-day seminar on the role... more
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Defcon 2011 is in full hacking swing, and Itzhak Avraham -- "Zuk" for short -- and his company Zimperium have unveiled the Android Network Toolkit for easy hacking on the go. Need to find vulnerabilities on devices using nearby networks? The app, dubbed "Anti" for short, allows you to simply push a button to do things like search a WiFi network for potential targets, or even take control of a PC trojan-style.
To do this, it seeks out weak spots in older software using known exploits, which means you may want to upgrade before hitting up public WiFi. According to Forbes, it's much like Firesheep, and Zuk refers to Anti as a "penetration tool for the masses." Apparently, his end-goal is to simplify "advanced" hacking and put it within pocket's reach, but he also hopes it'll be used mostly for good. Anti should be available via the Android Market this week for free, alongside a $10 "corporate upgrade." Consider yourself warned.Defcon 2011 is in full hacking swing, and Itzhak Avraham -- "Zuk" for short... more
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If you want to change the world, you can do so by becoming involved in a non-profit
organization. Whether you are managing, volunteering, or a paid worker for a non-profit,
you can benefit from connecting with others. The Internet makes it easy to share
experiences and get ideas.
link :http://www.mastersinnonprofitmanagement.com/25-useful-non-profit-networking-sites.htmlIf you want to change the world, you can do so by becoming involved in a non-profit... more
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With CouchSurfing.net, a relatively new phenomenon utilizing online social networking to connect fellow travelers, you can make new friends throughout the world, surfing from couch to couch as you explore new places and cultures.With CouchSurfing.net, a relatively new phenomenon utilizing online social networking... more
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My Path Builder is a growing network for entrepreneurs and we proudly present a video interview with Soi Montoya, Artist/Co-host who loves to express herself threw music and TV/film. She love to interview other fabulous people, so that we could cross market and help each other attain increased exposure. Fabulous! I have now started our own show called,"Soi Fabulous TV". It's a show about everything. A mini blog/reality show, and interviewing fabulous people from all walks of life.My Path Builder is a growing network for entrepreneurs and we proudly present a video... more
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My Path Builder is a growing network for entrepreneurs and we proudly present a video interview with Jonathan Fader Independent consultant with expertise in Motivational Interviewing, Cultural issues in healthcare, Sports Psychology and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. Co-Founder and Principal at City Space Suites and City Space Virtual Offices, a company building and managing business suites and virtual office solutions in New York City. Principal at Therapy Realty, a company building and managing office spaces for health professionals.My Path Builder is a growing network for entrepreneurs and we proudly present a video... more
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My Path Builder is a growing network for entrepreneurs and we proudly present a video interview with Jonathan Fader Independent consultant with expertise in Motivational Interviewing, Cultural issues in healthcare, Sports Psychology and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. Co-Founder and Principal at City Space Suites and City Space Virtual Offices, a company building and managing business suites and virtual office solutions in New York City. Principal at Therapy Realty, a company building and managing office spaces for health professionals.My Path Builder is a growing network for entrepreneurs and we proudly present a video... more
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We've all done it: found an unencrypted Wi-Fi connection and decided to piggyback on an unsuspecting neighbor's Web hookup -- even if it was only a temporary fix while we waited for a repairman, or until we could get cable installed in a new apartment. According to a recent poll conducted by Wakefield Research and the Wi-Fi Alliance, 32-percent of respondents admitted to trying to steal a neighbor's Wi-Fi connection at some point, a significant increase over the 18-percent that copped to the same crime (and yes, it is illegal) in 2008. The concern here isn't with the actual theft or breach of trust -- although you should probably feel a little guilty about that, you sneaky bastard. It's that unencrypted Wi-Fi connections pose a serious security risk. Using an unencrypted connection leaves your accounts vulnerable to readily available hacking tools like Firesheep. Some, like Chet Wisniewski of Sophos, aren't afraid to do a little fear-mongering to convince people to lock down their Wi-Fi connections. As he told USA Today, pedophiles and terrorists could easily take advantage of your unencrypted connection.
The danger, however, goes both ways. Yes, those with Wi-Fi routers should turn on any security features they can, but mooching exposes you to just as many dangers. Chances are that if you can get onto a Wi-Fi network, you're probably not the only one who has realized this. Any log-in or credit card information you enter is just being passed through the air for someone to snag.
http://www.switched.com/2011/02/04/32-percent-steal-neighbors-wifi-poll/We've all done it: found an unencrypted Wi-Fi connection and decided to piggyback... more
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In a big malicious attack to Twitter, its users can be driven to fake site by clicking the shortened URL link that has been tweeted. The fake anti-virus worm has affected the social networking site by goo.gl shortened URL.Twitter users are being shocked to find the malicious links have been tweeted from their account.
http://www.breakingnewsonline.net/technology/6469-fake-antivirus-worm-hits-twitter.htmlIn a big malicious attack to Twitter, its users can be driven to fake site by clicking... more
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The singer Ketty Perry linked up to the website's founder Mark Zuckerberg at the company's Palo Alto offices in California today.The social networking enthusiast uplThe singer Ketty Perry linked up to the website's founder Mark Zuckerberg at the... more
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It is about time joe public got the, "best practices" speech when it comes to wireless networking.It is about time joe public got the, "best practices" speech when it comes... more
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By Jim Schutze, Dec 30,2010
People all over the world are worried about whether Julian Assange of WikiLeaks is a legitimate journalist or the Information Unabomber. If they really want something to worry about, they should come to Dallas and talk to Russell Fish.
Fish, an Information Age Attila of open records, would be the first to tell us all to stop worrying about Assange, even if his massive dumps of classified information on the Internet are shaking up banks and governments worldwide.
Inventor Russell Fish thinks classified information will eventually leak out no matter what we do...and that's a good thing. Assange is only the needle. Look at the haystack.
Fish, a computer inventor and entrepreneur, also happens to be a kind of cutting-edge Robin Hood in the field of public information in the digital era. In the 1990s his early sieges against barricaded vaults of government information in Texas helped turn the public education establishment on its ear.
But to understand Fish on the subject of Assange, a better context might be the Inclosure Riots in mid-16th century England, when the Levellers were running around the English countryside chopping down hedges to defy the institution of private property.
Fish says Assange and WikiLeaks are merely symptomatic of an enormously bigger and deeper phenomenon born of digitization itself. All significant digital information must and will be leaked ultimately, Fish believes, because ultimately there is no effective technological, legal or social means of stopping it from leaking.
He should know. He is a master maker of leaks—an un-plumber, if you will. He believes that once everything leaks out all over the place and the walls of privileged information collapse—an inevitability whose moment speeds ever closer—then for the first time in human history we will all play on a truly flat field of information, for better or for worse. Better for really good players, I suppose. Not so sure about moi.
It's a stark and daunting perspective. No more informational hedges. All of us sort of naked out here. Cross our legs and learn to live with it.
Fish, who looks on government secret-keepers the way Attila the Hun looked on corpulent villagers, is ready. Cannot wait, as a matter of fact. He says Assange is helping the whole thing along, not creating it.
After WikiLeaks dumped a massive trove of diplomatic cables on the Internet last July, the government of the United States responded by convening a criminal grand jury to investigate Assange, leader of WikiLeaks, for offenses on a scale from spy to burglar. A host of multinational corporations including Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, Amazon and Apple, Inc. rushed in close on the government's heels to help shut down WikiLeaks by starving it of financial and Internet services.
But like Salvinia Molesta, the invasive floating fern in Southern lakes that only gets bigger and stronger the more you chop on it, WikiLeaks thrives. After Bank of America joined the anti-WikiLeaks death squad, somebody inside the bank apparently dropped an entire hard drive belonging to a top Bank of America executive on WikiLeaks—enough dirt, Assange asserted last week, to force massive resignations from the bank.
Fish says the willingness of big America-based corporations to help the government beat up on WikiLeaks—and the eagerness of wonks, hackers and geeks all over the world to strike back—demonstrate the universality of the underlying issues.
Powerful entities will always close ranks not merely to defend their own secrets but to preserve the larger hegemony of secrecy itself. "That's the way business is done in Venezuela, Cuba and Russia," he says.
In those places and here, Fish believes the overarching social structure is the same: "If you look at it long enough, you see a division between the ruling class and the productive class."
Oh, the hell: Is he saying conditions in the United States mirror Cuba, where people are driving around in 1958 Oldsmobiles and eating house cats for dinner? Well, no. He's really only talking about information—more specifically the hierarchical structure of access to information, all over the world.
"The ruling class says, 'We have certain rights and privileges. We have access to information, which we use, and we get to tell you what to do. But we're not going to tell you the underlying information on which we make decisions, because you can't handle the truth.'"
"It's a question of asymmetrical information," he says.
Like water, too much information is elevated in secret reservoirs. Not enough flows down to the fields. But like water, information always must seek the sea.
"Ultimately I believe that information widely disseminated is beneficial to society. With asymmetry of information, you wind up with a secret order of people who get to see stuff."
An information aristocracy.
Is that true? The point is that Fish and a whole bunch of very smart and very independent-minded engineers all over the world believe it is true. They are the Levellers of the Information Age. In their view, asymmetry is a problem, an imbalance, a bowed arrow that must fly.
By the way, they also have the technological means to make it fly. And Fish believes—ardently believes—that the rest of us lack the ability to catch that arrow in the air.
For example: He says the first impulse of governments trying to keep information from their citizens is to apply pressure on the keepers of the half-dozen domain-name servers—the digital pumps that make information flow on the Internet—to remove the addresses of sites they find objectionable.
If your Internet ID is not on the domain-name server, the theory goes, then no one can find you. For all digital intents and purposes, you will no longer exist.
But Fish describes an army of geeks and hackers who are already devising ways to wire around the main domain-name servers. In fact, it is in the very nature of the Internet to wire around obstacles, he says, and the ability to do wire-arounds will always outpace the ability to create blocks.
"There is a saying that the Internet detects censorship as a failure and wires around it," he says.
I always love talking to Fish, because it's sort of like playing a computer game—something at which I am not otherwise adept. I asked him what the geeks and hackers would do if I devised an Internet "robot," a fiendishly clever program able to fly all over the Internet faster than spit, finding all their new wire-arounds installed to defy my blockades and then re-block them.
"The geeks will kill your robot," he said quietly.
KILL MY ROBOT?!!! How can they kill my robot?
Well, no, not me, myself and I, but my agency, my business, my website, my mainframe. How will they kill my mainframe?
"Denial of service attacks," he said. "In denial of service, the defense can never equal the offense."
That's what the geeks have already done to the businesses that have joined the anti-WikiLeaks death squads. They bombarded their sites with service requests from thousands of computers so the sites couldn't do business.
Fish is certainly correct in saying that the standoff between Assange and the U.S. government is historic and structural. If the Internet can't be shut up, and if every important secret is going to wind up on the Internet, then we are about to occupy a very changed planet.
In fact, I can only think of one area where I know he is wrong. He cannot kill my robot. Not MY little robot. With that single caveat, I have to agree with him on the rest. Julian Assange probably is the least of our worries.
For the Full Story:
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2010-12-30/news/can-wikileaks-info-dump-of-state-secrets-make-for-a-more-just-society-well-that-s-what-russell-fish-thinks/By Jim Schutze, Dec 30,2010
People all over the world are worried about whether... more
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Don't worry, THEY ARE NOT REALLY DEAD, ONLY DIGITALLY DEAD!!
Usher, Katie Holmes, Ryan Seacrest, Kim Kardashian, Alicia- Keys, and more have sacrificed thier digital life to help Keep a Child Alive by saving millions of lives affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. They will not be posting on their usual networking/social sites until they raise $1,000,000 to help support this cause.
Visit http://buylife.org/ to buy their life back now and help support this incredibly important cause!
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Text one of the celebrity involved first name to 90999 to donate $10Don't worry, THEY ARE NOT REALLY DEAD, ONLY DIGITALLY DEAD!!
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